LOM: Lord of Mysticism

Klein returned home, and just as he got to the second floor, he saw Melissa.

"You're home..." Melissa said sleepily.

Klein yawned. "Yeah, I need to crash. Don't wake me up before lunch."

Melissa recalled something. "Benson and I are going to Saint Selena Cathedral to pray and attend Mass in the morning. Lunch might be slightly later."

As not-so-devoted believers of the Evernight Goddess, she and Benson went to the church once a fortnight, while Klein, who was a Nighthawk, hadn't entered the church since the last time he was followed by the member of the Secret Order.

No, I'm at the cathedral every day, just in its basement... Klein tried to reason. He worried that the Goddess would abandon him as a fake believer. If his ritualistic magic didn't respond at crucial times, he would be in trouble.

"No problem. I can sleep longer then." Klein said, and after walking past Melissa, he entered his bedroom and locked the door behind him.

He took out his ritual dagger and created a spirituality wall. He then took four steps counterclockwise while reciting the incantation and withstood the chaotic roars before appearing above the gray fog.

In the illusionary world, he was seated on the seat of honor at the long bronze table. Klein conjured a piece of goatskin parchment and wrote down a divination incantation.

"The picture that the Misfortune Cloth Puppet displayed."

Although Klein had seen the picture clearly for a split moment last night, he could only recall the rough shape. But this is not a problem for a Seer like him that could reproduce anything he sees.

According to mysticism theory, one's spirituality could retain everything they had seen. As long as they possessed the appropriate method, they could reproduce a scene.

Klein even felt that the theory that Spirit Medium Daly described regarding the Psychology Alchemists had some truth to it. Human memory is only an island exposed above the sea that cannot withstand much. Hence, a person's spiritual essence remembers most of the information, turning it into the subconscious, which forms the water below the island. While spirituality itself, even if not the entire ocean, includes all the seas around the island.

After reciting the divination incantation, Klein leaned backwards and fell asleep through Cogitation.

In the blurry world, he saw Chanis Gate crack open and heard heavy grinding noises. The puppet in the black classic regal gown leaned into the door's opening and unfurled the paper that it was holding.

On the piece of paper, there were many mysterious symbols that collectively formed a vertical eye.

Klein observed the picture before exiting the dream. Then, with the aid of the world above the gray fog and the newly imprinted memory, he expressed the image on the brown parchment.

Klein wrote below the eye, "This is the key to the treasure left by the Antigonus family."

Putting down the pen, he untied the silver chain wound in his sleeve and held it with his left hand as the topaz pendulum stably hung above the divination statement and the mysterious vertical eye.

He closed his eyes and recited the sentence with a clear mind. After seven times, he saw the topaz spinning in a clockwise fashion along with the silver chain, which meant affirmation.

So the vertical eye is the key to the treasure left behind by the Antigonus family.

"Ray Bieber's death means there are no living descendants of the Antigonus family. Does this mean the notebook views me—an unrelated Seer who interacted with it and survived—as its inheritor? Did it influence 3-0625, leaving behind the key to the treasure and revealing it to me during my shift at Chanis Gate?"

Klein then divined the location of the Antigonus family's treasure, but there was no detailed information. Just like in the letter that Sirius wrote to Mr. Z, Klein could only guess that the treasure was related to the main peak of the Hornacis mountain range and the ancient Nation of the Evernight.

After he finished divining all the matters, Klein noticed that the crimson star from which he had previously heard prayers was producing a faint fluctuation.

He used the method of answering prayers and touched the illusory star, seeing the brown-haired young man again kneeling on the ground, facing the pure crystal ball, and muttering about something.

Klein, who had learned some Jotun, finally understood one of the sentences.

"Pray... Save... Father and Mother."

Klein, being powerless to help, observed him for a little longer and then retracted his spirituality to descend.

When he returned to his bedroom, he dispelled the spirituality wall and laid down on the bed to get some sleep.

Klein slept all the way till half past twelve until Melissa finished preparing lunch and came knocking on the door.

After having a fairly sumptuous meal, he saw Melissa bring out her new dress and fishnet hat.

"Do you still have something this afternoon?" Klein asked.

Benson, seated on the sofa, answered on her behalf, "Mrs. Shaud from next door told Melissa that there will be a lecture regarding family affairs in the municipal hall in the afternoon. Melissa plans to attend it and learn how to deal with daily household issues."

Melissa nodded. "I got Selena and Elizabeth to join me."

"That's nice. I hope that the lecturer tells you that a family like us needs to hire at least one maidservant," Klein joked.

Noticing that Melissa was about to refute him, he added, "We have to invest our limited time into more valuable matters."

Melissa puckered her lips, put on her fishnet hat, and left the house.

...

At two in the afternoon, Klein arrived at the Blackthorn Security Company.

At the reception hall, Rozanne and Dunn Smith asked in unison, "Didn't you go home and rest?"

Klein replied, "I was going to visit the Divination Club, but thinking about what happened last night, I decided to come here first. Has the Holy Cathedral replied?"

Dunn glanced at Rozanne and walked past the partition, entering his office.

Rozanne muttered, "Seriously, Captain..."

Klein followed and shut the door. Dunn explained, "The Holy Cathedral has determined that the disturbance was due to the Antigonus family notebook, which they reclassified as a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact. "It's a pity, since that means you no longer have the sufficient security clearance to read it."

For Grade 1 Sealed Artifacts, only those who rank above bishops and Nighthawk team captains can know of the actual situation. This also means that Captain has no idea what's happening... Highly dangerous, no wonder...

Dunn continued, "The Holy Cathedral told us to check if there are any other items behind Chanis Gate that were contaminated by the notebook. After verification, only 3-0625 was abnormal, and we have already changed its seal."

"Did you discover anything else?" Klein asked.

"No."

Klein didn't continue with the topic, and after some small talk, he bade farewell.