Mystery: Starting from Meeting Amon

Chapter 19 The Most Devout Believer

Zouteland Street, inside Blackthorn Security Company.

Seeing that lunch time was approaching, Klein was reading a newspaper when Captain Dunn Smith came to the civilian office and said in a low and mellow voice:

"Klein, come with me to Chanis Gate. The sealed artifact '2-049' has arrived. The subsequent actions may require your induction of the notebook."

“Okay.” Klein put down the newspaper and followed Dunn Smith into the Chanis Gate.

Of the four people escorting the sealed object, Klein only knew Leonard, and he had never seen the other three. At this moment, the four were doing arm bending and stretching exercises, which looked particularly funny.

However, Klein soon stopped laughing. Due to the special nature of Sealed Artifact 2-049, he also joined in the "arm bending and stretching exercise" activity.

Without wasting any time, the group first took the seal to Riel Bieber's former residence. There, Klein saw the true face of the seal, which was a clown-like doll with oil paint on its face.

With the seal leading the way, Klein soon arrived at the dock area. He watched the clown doll working so hard and couldn't help but think:
"It is desperately looking for the descendants of the Antigonus family. Is this a manifestation of loyalty or a model of betrayal?"

Thinking of this, Klein couldn't help but curl his lips.

"Inspector Dunn Smith, didn't you say there was something important happening today?" Approaching the crime scene, a chubby policeman greeted the Nighthawks from afar with an unpleasant look on his face.

He was rejected when he went to Dunn Smith to handle the case in the morning. Now the other party came to the crime scene on his own initiative, which was obviously a slap in his face.

Dunn frowned while doing the "arm bending and stretching exercise". When the policeman came to him in the morning, he did not take the case seriously, because the importance of Antigonus's notes far surpassed the ordinary extraordinary events.

"I think what I'm going to do overlaps with what you're doing." Dunn Smith couldn't help but complain about this coincidence while doing the 'arm bending and stretching exercise'.

He brought the extraordinary people who were escorting the sealed objects to the warehouse and saw the corpse in the warehouse at a glance. There were several tarot cards scattered on the corpse, and the "Wheel of Fortune" card happened to fall in the middle.

“Klein, use your divination to confirm the identity.” Dunn Smith walked to the corpse, picked up the Antigonus notebook from beside the corpse, and took a look at it.

It was a little unusual that things were going so smoothly, which made him alert.

The moment he saw the tarot cards, Klein subconsciously thought of his Tarot Club. Someone who killed people so blatantly couldn't be one of his members, right?

If he is really one of his members, there may be only one "Destiny" in Tingen.

“No, Mr. Destiny is of a very high status. This kind of low-level killing method is not from him, but from his followers.” Klein had a general idea of ​​what happened and couldn’t help but sigh at how powerful Mr. Destiny was.

By sending out only one of his followers in Tingen City, Mr. Fate successfully solved a problem that the Nighthawks had been unable to solve for a long time. Mr. Fate was truly unfathomable.

This also explains why Antigonus's notes are still in the warehouse. Given Mr. Fate's status, the power of the notes is not worth his attention at all.

“Okay…” Klein agreed. He entered a state of emptiness and silently recited the divination words. The crystal pendant began to rotate clockwise.

“Captain, this is the body of Riel Bieber,” Klein confirmed.

Dunn Smith frowned. He would believe that Riel Bieber lost control because he absorbed the extraordinary power in the notebook, but judging from the situation at the scene, Riel Bieber obviously died from a gunshot.

"Wait, it's a demon-hunting bullet!" After snatching the bullet from the fat policeman, Dunn Smith had already made a judgment that the person who killed Riel Bieber should be a powerful extraordinary person, and this was by no means a coincidence.

Riel Bieber's own combat power is not strong, only equivalent to half of Sequence Nine, but the Antigonus Notes are not ordinary extraordinary things.

"He was at least a Sequence 7 transcendent. He possessed extraordinary mysterious powers, and even prevented Riel Bieber from resisting in time." Dunn Smith came to the conclusion. He asked Klein to divine whether the cause of Riel Bieber's death was related to the mysterious power.

Klein entered an ethereal state again. The crystal necklace in his hand shook slightly, and then stopped. This meant that his divination was disturbed, and the other party had the ability to counter divination.

“I can’t tell fortunes.” Klein put away the crystal necklace and said regretfully.

He was not surprised by this result. According to Mr. Destiny's status, it was normal that he could not make any predictions.

"I understand." Dunn Smith had already come to a conclusion in his mind. The inability to divine must mean that this matter was related to mysterious forces. This made him realize once again how terrifying the murderer was.

"The murderer only killed Riel Bieber but did not take Antigonus's notebook. Either there is some hidden secret or the other party does not take this notebook seriously at all." Dunn Smith couldn't help but think.

The mission was stopped before it even started, so Dunn Smith had to lead the Nighthawks away. He had reason to believe that the members of the Secret Order would give up the Antigonus Notes, even though this extraordinary thing was not ordinary.

Just after leaving the dock area, suddenly, a clown with oil paint on his face and a red nose appeared in Dunn's sight.

……

By noon, Lewis had regained his spirituality and his loss of control had been curbed.

After the battle in the morning, he understood the power of the magical item in his body, and at the same time, he understood the limitations of the magical item.

"With my current status, I can only change the fate of a Sequence Nine, and that's when my luck is maxed out. If the other party absorbs more power from the notebook, I will lose control due to spiritual exhaustion before the magical item takes effect."

Thinking of the loss of control in the morning, Lewis is still afraid. In the future, he must not use the power of the Key of Light unless it is absolutely necessary, otherwise it may push him into another abyss.

Lewis hurriedly found the black candle. After all his efforts, he still couldn't get the Antigonus notebook. His livelihood was in trouble. The family's property was less than 100 pounds, which was by no means a considerable figure.

The culprit behind all this is the Goddess of Night, and now he wants to demand payment from her.

After setting up the ceremony, Lewis recited the prayer.

“I pray for the strength of the night;
I pray for the power of crimson;

I pray for the favor of the goddess;

Pray for ten thousand pounds in exchange for the notes;

Night herb, herb of the red moon, please pass your power to my spell
Moonflower, herb of the red moon, please pass your power to my spell..."

As Lewis finished his prayers, he pulled out a piece of parchment, drew the shape of the lottery ticket on it, and lit it in front of the black and red candles.

Suddenly, the red and black candles went out, and the parchment quickly turned to ashes.

A strange wind blew within the spiritual wall, and the pile of ashes formed a word.

"roll!"

"Storm... No!... Goddess, you can't treat your most devout believer like this." Lewis looked at the words before the ceremony and couldn't help but get annoyed. Not only did they snatch his Antigonus notes, but they were even unwilling to pay 10,000 pounds for their labor.

The spiritual wall shattered, and a strange wind swept Lewis up and threw him against the wall.

Lewis looked at everything in front of him blankly. He was actually rejected by the goddess. This is not mysticism!
"Maybe the goddess doesn't like me, and I should try to believe in other gods." Lewis dusted off his body and put on his top hat.

(End of this chapter)