LOM: Lord of Mysticism

The wooden puppet's face was painted in red and yellow like the common clown. The corners of its mouth were upturned high, revealing an abnormally comical smile.

Its lips parted to reveal a dark and deep mouth. Klein, who looked at it, felt horror leaping out of his heart.

Everything before his eyes grew dull, his thoughts slowed down gradually, and he instinctively wanted to ask for help, but his neck seemed to be held tight by a rope.

Just then, Dunn pushed him heavily.

"Its influence is getting stronger," Klein said in a fearful and certain tone.

Being next to a strange Sealed Artifact like 2-049 placed them in terrifying peril if they were not careful. No, it was impossible to guard against it and could only be avoided through other methods.

"It's normal," Aiur Harson said steadily.

Lorotta chuckled. "It seems to like you? Don't worry. It is a relatively less dangerous Grade 2 Sealed Artifact."

In her naturally languid voice, the puppet stood up in a humanoid manner and began tottering towards its left. Its action was just like a steam engine that had rusted due to a lack of lubricating oil.

Aiur Harson was awoken by Dunn and pointed in the direction that the puppet was walking slowly towards, saying to Leonard, who was driving the carriage, "Over there!"

Leonard had to detour around the buildings. and 2-049 constantly adjusted the direction that it was facing, acting as a compass that pointed towards the Antigonus family.

Leonard drove the carriage according to Aiur Harson's occasional instructions. Whenever the strange puppet 2-049 walked to the edge of the carriage, he would pull it back.

The carriage traveled at high speed and quickly arrived at the harbor, where warehouses were clustered.

After circling a few times, they confirmed that 2-049 intended to enter the innermost grayish-white warehouse. Aiur Harson grabbed the puppet carefully and stuffed it back into the black chest.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Under constant ferocious knocking, Aiur woke up again as he activated the mechanism and injected his spirituality to activate the star and crimson symbols on the chest.

At the reappearance of the formless seal, Aiur Harson let out a long, heavy breath.

"Let's get down," Dunn Smith said with a low voice. "Leonard, tying the horse here will do."

Dressed in windbreakers, suits, or shirts, the six left the carriage and walked into the innermost warehouse. As they walked, they uniformly stretched and bent their arms.

According to Klein's observations, 2-049 first affected the upper body. Therefore, to detect it in time and prevent a more dangerous situation from developing, they would extend and bend their arms.

Klein followed Captain Dunn Smith and company. As they approached, the deeper his worry became.

As they walked towards the warehouse's door, Dunn lowered his non-moving hand and made a gesture, calling on everyone to stop.

"Klein, divine if there is any danger in the warehouse. It'd be better if you could also tell the level of danger," Dunn said.

Klein gave an unnoticeable nod and removed the silver chain that had a hanging piece of topaz.

He held the silver chain, allowing the topaz to hang down naturally. He half closed his eyes, outlined the spherical light, entered Cogitation, and then mumbled, "There's danger in the warehouse."

After repeating it seven times, he opened his eyes and saw the hanging topaz slowly going in clockwise circles, turning faster and faster.

"There's danger, great danger," Klein replied.

Clockwise meant affirmation to the chanted statement, while counter-clockwise meant denial.

To other Beyonders, even a Mystery Pryer using spirit dowsing could only determine if there was danger. However, when Klein used spirit dowsing, the pendulum would spin at different speeds, revealing the degree of the answer.

Although it was vague, it allowed one to have a rough assessment of the situation.

Just as he was about to put away the topaz pendulum, Leonard Mitchell spoke. "Divine if there is danger around us also."

Dunn nodded. "Yes, I am worried that the Secret Order will not give up and that it has placed Ray Bieber's house under constant surveillance. They could have followed us here to cause trouble at a critical moment."

Klein took a deep breath and entered a calm state once again. When the silver chain turned stable, he recited in his heart, "There is danger surrounding us."

After repeating the statement, Klein opened his eyes and looked at the silver chain that paused and started moving clockwise.

"There is danger surrounding us." Klein spoke carefully.

Furthermore, he could sense that someone had tried to intercept his divination but had lost to him in an invisible fight.

Just as he spoke, a small orange-yellow fireball flew towards them, crashing towards the middle of the group.

Dunn Smith raised his revolver and pulled the trigger, but the fireball wasn't affected by the gunshot and continued its original trajectory, forcing everyone to scatter.

Klein moved back to dodge the fireball.

The Nighthawks orderly split off into two groups while dodging.

Poof!

The orange-yellow fireball landed on the ground and disappeared as though nothing had happened.

Klein saw Aiur Harson lift the black chest and throw it at least ten meters away.

"Stay away from it! Watch it!" Aiur shouted.

Leonard and Borgia stood ten meters from the chest, and Dunn and Lorotta each held guns, standing beside Aiur Harson, who had drawn a thin silver sword.

They took up a formation resembling a crescent as they rushed towards the origins of the fireball while taking note of the peripheral regions.