Lord of Mysteries: Taiyi

Chapter 160 Confidence

After leaving the office, Klein and Rosanne found out Old Neil's address, silently noted it down, and then left Blackthorn Security Company.

Today he was to search the remaining few altered red houses, and then go see Instructor Azik Eggers.

Klein successfully investigated the last house according to the plan, and as he expected, he found nothing.

However, he was relieved that this situation had occurred, at least he wouldn't run into Ince by accident. Afterwards, he took a carriage and spent a sum of money to arrive at Teacher Azik's house.

This place is clearly more upscale than Narcissus, but not as upscale as Halls. The houses have lawns in front and small, separate gardens in the back.

After knocking, Azik, with his bronze skin, opened the door to greet Klein.

"Ah, it's Klein. I was just about to write to you. I've just returned to Tingen."

Klein glanced at Azik below his right ear again and found a mole there before saying, "Thank you for your previous hint. In return, I have found a clue to your past."

"Really?" Azik suddenly became excited, and the sense of vicissitude that had always been in his eyes faded slightly.

"Shall we go inside and talk?" Klein looked around and then said.

Azik quickly nodded and led Klein inside.

He locked the door from the inside and led Klein to a sofa.

He asked somewhat impatiently, "What clue?"

Klein, who was already prepared, said, "I previously went to an old castle outside the town of Ramd to deal with a vengeful spirit."

"Rambold—" Azik repeated the word excitedly, his brows slowly furrowing.

Klein observed the other party's performance and then slowly continued, "In this case, we did some investigation in the town. A townsman claimed to have a portrait of the first Baron Ramd and tried to sell it to me. Later, we found that the portrait looked very much like you, Mr. Azik, and even the mole below the ear was reproduced."

"Finally, under my interrogation, he confessed that the oil painting was not actually obtained from the castle, but was a work from more than 40 years ago. However, the townsman said that his grandfather had personally witnessed the painting being done in the castle and copied it."

"You know, we have basic techniques for detecting lies, and these techniques tell me that the townsman wasn't lying."

After listening intently to what was said, Azik leaned forward and remained silent for a long time. Five or six minutes later, he finally exhaled and said, "I've remembered something. Perhaps we should go see that abandoned castle ourselves. Can you take me there?"

This was precisely Klein's purpose—he wanted to leverage Azik's power. If Azik had truly survived from the Fourth Epoch to the present, he must possess considerable strength. It would be even better if he could discover the influence of 0-08 after regaining his memories and intervene.

Of course, Klein didn't have high hopes, because the Emperor's diary mentioned that 0-08 had caused the fall of angels.

Mr. Azik couldn't really be an ancient angel, could he?

Afterwards, Klein went home to see his sister, Melissa, who had already bought chicken, potatoes, fish, peas, and even a small jar of honey from the street.

Watching his sister gradually adapt to occasional small luxuries, Klein, under immense pressure, chuckled and said, "You need to prepare dinner today. Don't worry about mine. I might not be back until the early hours of the morning. I have to do my teacher, Professor Azik, a favor. Uh, he's a history professor at Hoy University."

When Melissa heard that she couldn't eat her brother's cooking, she opened and closed her lips twice, then pursed them and said, "Okay, be careful on the road."

After arriving at the abandoned castle with Azik, Azik indeed recalled his past as Baron Ramd and discovered his child whose head had been taken. Suppressing his anger, he said, "I sensed the force here that is causing your fate to be out of sync."

"Huh?" Klein was both surprised and delighted. He was surprised that Ince was moving the head, but delighted that Azik had indeed noticed the anomaly.

"Then can you cut off its interference with me? Or trace its source?"

How could Mr. Azik discover traces of 0-08? What is his true identity?

Azik said in a low, angry voice, "I'll try, but too much time has passed, and it's very likely there won't be any results."

克莱恩没有贸然将0—08的假设说出口，这样即使阿兹克有很强大的力量也有可能会被0—08抹杀，他不能让阿兹克先生犯险。而且自己无法解释这个毫无关联的假设，阿兹克先生也不一定知道0—08的能力。

Now let's pray that Azik can find out where 0-08 and Ince are—and that he can stop Ince from fighting against 0-08.

Klein then witnessed Azik summoning the eerie gate, heard a baby crying, and learned that Azik was at least from...

A monster that has been alive since the end of the Quaternary period.

Of course, the final result was that it was not found, which was within Klein's acceptable range.

Based on his past life experiences and the events of today, Klein deduced that Azik was constantly looping and restarting his memories and life.

He thus gained Azik's friendship and asked Azik to create ghostly anomalies in the surrounding villages a week later so that Azik could borrow the mutated Sun Emblem 3-0782 to make the Sunfire Charm, in preparation for a possible conflict.

Finally, Klein looked into Azik's eyes and said, "Mr. Azik, if—and I mean if—that thing that has altered my fate really does harm my life, I hope you will protect my family."

Seeing Klein's sincere plea for help, Azik gripped his cane tightly and solemnly said, "The person who caused your fate to change also stole my child's head. I will help you find him. If he really did such a thing, I will definitely find out immediately—"

After Azik confirmed that he could help, Klein thanked him and went back to the city with him.

His words were essentially directed at Ince, intended to deter him from making a move against him—so that Mr. Azik could detect something amiss. This would buy him more time and opportunity.

Sunfire Spell, Deconstruction Spell, Entropy Stopping Spell—Klein silently calculated his trump cards, and now he also had A...

With Mr. Zike's help, and the obvious goodwill of "Taiyin" towards him, he gradually gained some confidence in these things.

Another extreme method is to have the Tarot spread the word, since Ince can only influence one large city, and Mr. Kurt and Miss Justice are both in Backlund.

Of course, this is a last resort. Incidentally, revealing information about 0-08 might cause them a lot of trouble, since this thing is a level 0 sealed item—and it could very well expose the Tarot Club.

First, we need to resolve Old Neil's problem, and then remain vigilant for any unusual activity and take remedial action as needed.

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