With a whoosh, a silver-white lightning bolt shaped like a tree branch lit up the early winter night.
It didn't strike down but simply cut through the air, illuminating the area around where Klein had been standing as if it were daytime, revealing every detail.
"God's Singer" Aes Snek withdrew his gaze and muttered with a dark expression, "The Rose School? Not a 'Wraith,' nor a true undead..."
A mature middle-aged man with a pair of golden eyes turned his head to glance at Kapen's corpse and said, "The target's body is covered with Tarot cards... This is the second similar case in the past two months."
"When was the first?" Cardinal Snek asked in a deep voice.
The well-dressed mature middle-aged man coughed lightly and said, "That time when the '
"Then it's not the Rose School," Cardinal Snek concluded firmly.
Even though those organizations that believed in evil gods disliked each other, they wouldn't deliberately disrupt such matters. Instead, they held a mindset of letting it happen, waiting for the other party to muddy the waters first.
"I think so too. Perhaps it's a newly emerging secret organization; their signature is to scatter Tarot cards over the target," the handsome mature middle-aged man said with a smile. "And the different arrangements of the Tarot cards seem to express different meanings... On this corpse, only two cards were placed over the face: one 'Judgment' and one 'Emperor.' 'Judgment' could be the motive and purpose, while 'Emperor' might be the organization code of the one who just left? Of course, this could also be a ritual."
Cardinal Snek didn't reply. He looked around and said, "Let's see what really happened here."
Only then did the first batch of Punishers arrive at Kapen's villa.
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Above the
"Daisy can return home safely." He held the pendulum in his left hand, closed his eyes, and silently chanted the words.
After seven recitations, Klein opened his eyes and saw that the citrine pendant was rotating counterclockwise, but with a very small amplitude and very slowly. This indicated that Daisy's journey home still had a few minor setbacks, but they were negligible... After interpreting the divination, Klein put aside his last worry.
He then looked at the two items placed before him, both emitting relatively strong spiritual radiance.
One was a light blue translucent hexagonal prism, through which strands of light occasionally darted, like lightning originating from the depths of consciousness. This was the Beyonder characteristic left behind by Lady Katie.
The other belonged to
This "fist" was composed of three colors: iron-black and dark red intertwined with large splotches of silver-white.
Without hesitation, Klein materialized paper and pen, preparing to use these two Beyonder characteristics to divine the corresponding potion formulas.
Before he advanced to Sequence 7, he had been almost unable to divine formulas this way due to the excessive external influences of leftover Beyonder characteristics, even with this mysterious space eliminating interference and enhancing his divination ability to a degree. Therefore, in the past, Klein had only had the method of "mediumship."
It was only after becoming a "Magician" that he, above the Gray Fog, initially gained the ability to divine using leftover Beyonder characteristics, but with a high probability of failure.
This time was no exception; Klein shamefully failed.
Nevertheless, he did gain something: he figured out the Sequence names corresponding to the two Beyonder characteristics.
"Parker is Sequence 8 'Sheriff,' and Katie is Sequence 7 'Inquisitor'... Isn't this the 'Arbiter' pathway? This pathway is controlled by the royal family, the military, and the few older noble families in Loen, and they strictly control the leakage of formulas and Beyonder materials... Could it be that some of the young girls Kapen abducted would be sent to some noble's estate?
"But they wouldn't go so far as to send four Beyonders to help Kapen just for pleasure; that's obviously imbalanced... Helas is much more powerful than Katie; maybe he's Sequence 6 of this pathway, and after wearing that glove, could even reach Sequence 5... Could it involve some bloody and evil sacrifice, where the target cannot be exposed?
"Besides inside the kingdom, the Castia family of Feynapotter also controls this Beyonder pathway and passes it down to their military and intelligence system... Is this another spy case involving who knows what?"
Klein tried to divine his guesses again and again failed.
He temporarily put the matter aside, then lightly tapped the edge of the bronze long table and muttered to himself: "As long as I have the formulas and the corresponding supplementary materials, these two Beyonder characteristics can respectively make someone become Sequence 8 'Sheriff' and Sequence 7 'Inquisitor'... Miss Magician's friend called Xio seems to be missing the Beyonder material for 'Sheriff'...
"Next time, I can sell Parker's to Miss Magician through 'The World,' to quickly accumulate the material fees I need for my subsequent 'Faceless' Sequence... But always going through 'The World' doesn't seem quite appropriate. This time I deliberately left Tarot cards; if Miss Justice hears about this, she will definitely think it was my Blessed who did it... Let Mr. Fool help him sell it instead."
Klein quickly finalized the plan and let the Beyonder characteristics of 'Sheriff' and 'Inquisitor' fly to the corner and hide in the debris pile.
"I don't know what Sequence 6 and Sequence 5 of the 'Arbiter' pathway are called... They give a feeling of using order and law... 'Judge'?" Klein withdrew his thoughts, half-closed his eyes, and carefully examined his own state.
He once again felt that his spirituality had become lively, the potion was stirred, and digestion was accelerating.
This time, he intuitively believed that he had summarized most of the "Magician's Code"; the remaining details would be nice to have but were not necessary, and wouldn't greatly affect the digestion progress.
Materializing a round-bellied pen and parchment, Klein wrote, as if to reinforce his memory: Magician's Code: 1. Do not perform without preparation. 2. Challenge the impossible, even if the final result is merely illusory.