One pocket, two pockets, three pockets... Klein quickly searched and found a bloodstained wallet, a library card for Deville Library, two brass keys attached together, an empty pipe, a sheathed dagger, and several neatly folded sheets of letter paper.
After placing everything except the letter paper aside on the floor, he straightened up and glanced at the wallet, confirming it contained only a few dozen sous in notes and a few copper pennies.
"The craftsmanship of this wallet is quite good, what a shame..." Klein sighed silently, his thoughts wandering.
If he hadn't hidden so much private money today, buying a wallet would have been on his to-do list.
Shaking his head, Klein unfolded the letter paper and quickly scanned it:
"Dear
"Allow me to defend myself: selling the notes of the
"I suspect that the notes are alive, that they are an evil item with a certain degree of life and intelligence, a dangerous thing that must be sealed."
"Its content appears different at different stages, before different people!"
"I have confirmed this from the lamb inside the police department."
"Although the content shown each time is sufficiently real and supported by evidence, I believe that only in the hands of a descendant of the Antigonus family will it reveal its full form."
"When Haines and I obtained it, we could only see some trivial matters of the Antigonus family, the general situation of the Night Country on the main peak of Mount Hornacis, and the three Sequence potion formulas I submitted to you last time."
"As you know, the
"Without waiting for your reply, we discussed and sold the notes to Welch from the same street. He likes collecting artifacts and ancient books and can afford a high price. Later, things happened as you know."
"This is the first thing I want to explain. And as I write these lines, Haines is dead, dying of a sudden heart condition in his sleep. This must be the Lord's blessing, sparing him from falling into the hands of heretics."
"I had to move to a safe, hidden place, not even daring to go out. Fortunately, that lamb told me that the heretics targeted Haines not because of the Antigonus notes or because he exposed his identity, but because he foolishly took a female apprentice, hoping to slowly develop her into one of us."
"That female apprentice spied on his secret incantations and, under the watchful eyes of the heretic Nighthawks, attempted a mirror divination. The subsequent development, I believe you can guess without me describing it."
"Unfortunately, that lamb's status is not high enough to know the specific details."
"From various feedback, the heretics did not suspect me. Their investigation was interrupted by Haines' timely death."
"So I returned to the streets and plan to go to Deville Library to borrow a few more journals and look for more clues."
"As an organization that also controls the 'Seer' pathway, the Antigonus family must have had some foresight of their own destruction. They definitely left a secret treasure to revive themselves!"
"There is every reason to believe that this treasure is on the main peak of the Hornacis Mountains, somewhere in the ruins of the Night Country!"
Seeing this, Klein's pupils sharply contracted, and he almost let the letter paper slip from his hand.
"The Antigonus family's Sequence is the 'Seer' pathway?"
"What a coincidence!"
...
Thunderclaps exploded in Klein's mind, leaving him mentally disarrayed, and he felt a sense of fate:
"The notes that caused the original owner's death and indirectly helped me transmigrate come from the Antigonus family, which controls the 'Seer' pathway. The diary of Emperor Roselle that made me choose the 'Seer' potion, and Emperor Roselle's inclination toward the 'Seer' sequence is because of the mysterious Mr.
"...It's as if fate has woven a suffocating net."
"What lies behind all of this?"
Klein walked back and forth with the letter paper in hand, trying to find corroboration for the content from other aspects.
"Mm, the Secret Order controlled by the Zaratul family is chasing and seeking the legacy of the Antigonus family... If we look at them as belonging to the same mystical pathway, the reasons and motives are sufficient: perhaps to complete the sequence, perhaps to obtain rare materials for high-sequence advancement, perhaps to covet their accumulated experience in avoiding loss of control..."
"Thinking about it this way, it is quite reasonable that the Antigonus family at least had part of the chain of the 'Seer' pathway."