Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 252 "The Spy"

"This...you saw it too, he walked right into my line of fire?"

Klein simply fired in accordance with his spiritual guidance; after all, he was startled when someone suddenly fell from the sky.

It was precisely Klein's twisted spiritual intuition that made him sense a familiar malice, so he fired, sending all the bullets into the "Apostle of Desire's" head while the "Apostle of Desire" was still in a daze.

"Coincidence! What a coincidence! What kind of idiot wrote this third-rate little story!" Klein's Adam's apple bobbed as he tried to remain calm.

"..." Leonard, standing next to Klein, had a somewhat distorted expression as he looked at the demon who was already beyond dead and nodded subconsciously.

The demon has now returned to human form, but its iconic demon horns and demon markings remain, making it look anything but a good person.

Moreover, they did hear the screams and fighting sounds coming from the dance hall.

"Is that all?" Klein put away his revolver.

"What can you do if you've already killed them all?" Leonard retorted.

Before he could even react, Klein had already emptied the magazine—it was an instinctive, almost spiritual, feeling.

"You killed the assassin?!" Duke Negan's bodyguards chased after him and saw the assassin whose head was about to explode.

They looked at Klein and Leonard in astonishment.

No one knew the assassin's power better than them; he was a Sequence 5 who could repel several of their extraordinary beings!

"It's me." Klein controlled his facial expression and nodded calmly. He was already very skilled at pretending to be an expert.

"Very well," said the bodyguard of the "Wind's Chosen," "we're taking his body away. You have no objections, do you?"

Klein and Leonard glanced at the bodyguard, confirmed his hair color, and realized he was from the Church of Storms; no wonder he spoke so aggressively.

So they decided not to hold it against this person.

"Thank you both for your assistance!" The other bodyguard bowed and thanked them. "We need to take this assassin with us. Is that convenient?"

"Rest assured, Duke Negan will pay you ample compensation!"

"Okay!" Klein knew what they wanted to do, nothing more than using psychic abilities to obtain information, so he didn't refuse.

"Thank you!" Soon, an extraordinary person skilled in divination and psychic abilities arrived and conducted a psychic inquiry on the spot.

"This is... the trend of the times!" The faint murmur seemed to come from hell.

Klein had already been politely asked to leave and only had time to hear half of this sentence.

However, what he needed to face was not that, but those nobles.

Such a big incident at the banquet naturally couldn't have gone unnoticed.

The second-floor balcony of the ballroom was already packed with nobles, all of whom were watching this place intently.

The focus, naturally, is on the "hero" who killed the assassin.

"That's the man who killed the assassin who tried to kill Duke Negan!"

All the nobles stared eagerly at Klein, who was smiling.

Such a powerful figure deserves the attention and efforts of all nobles to win him over!

Leonard sensed something was wrong, took a step back, and hid his head in Klein's back.

"It's that gentleman who's with His Excellency the Bishop! He really is a powerful Extraordinary!" Audrey Hall was also looking over there, her eyes sparkling.

"Damn it, weren't we supposed to be working as undercover agents? How did things get to this point?"

Klein spoke through gritted teeth, in a voice only he and Leonard could hear.

How can a spy be openly observed like this?!

"Who says those standing in the light aren't 'dark agents'?" Truman appeared beside Klein and Leonard at some point, gently patting Klein's shoulder to help him relax.

"But how do we proceed with our work?" Klein was speechless at the "darkness within the light" theory.

"Hiss!" Klein quickly realized something. "Was this done by Bishop Truman?"

How could someone so powerful and extraordinary who dared to assassinate the Duke possibly run into his gun? It must have been done by this Bishop Truman!

In Klein's mind, Truman had always been a high-sequence extraordinary being!

"You are the hero today, and don't worry, they won't remember your face; it's 'secret'."

Truman chuckled and led Klein and Leonard into the hall, facing the gazes of the onlookers.

"Thank you, sir, for killing the assassin!" Duke Negan had barely recovered and was filled with the joy of surviving a close call.

"And thank you to the Church of the Night for their assistance this time!" Duke Negan bowed deeply to Truman in thanks.

He also knew who had saved him when he was on the verge of death.

At that moment, he truly felt death beckoning to him, and even the Lord of Storms could not protect him.

At the banquet, only this archbishop had such power. Inviting this new archbishop to the banquet on a whim was definitely the wisest decision he ever made!

"Hmm." Truman nodded gently.

"To express my gratitude, I am willing to donate a manor worth 20,000 pounds to the Church of the Night."

This is the best way to express gratitude, because Duke Negan worships the Lord of Storms, not the Goddess of Night.

He cannot get too close to the Church of the Night.

Hmm... It's said to be donated to the Church of the Night, but with Duke Negan's manipulation, it will probably end up in Truman's hands.

Truman nodded calmly.

"Sir, to express my gratitude, I will offer you a reward of 3000 gold pounds."

"Huh?!" Klein couldn't hold back anymore, his facial expression losing control for the first time.

Duke Negan didn't have time to say much to Klein and quickly took his leave, leaving Klein stunned.

"Gurgle!" Klein was stunned by the exorbitant reward.

"...Bishop, I only fired six shots." Klein knew that he was able to kill the assassin entirely thanks to Bishop Truman's power.

He can't take this money!

"Use it for your activity expenses," Truman waved his hand dismissively.

"Oh, right, seeing that 'Demon' pathway extraordinary individual reminded me that your mission might need to add another target."

"An Extraordinary being of the 'Demon' pathway?" Klein blinked and asked.

"No, it's the Blood Worship Cult and the Demon Family."

Both Klein and Leonard felt their hearts skip a beat; it seemed like each of their investigation subjects was more terrifying than the last!

The Witch Cult, along with the Blood Cult and the Demon Family, are the two largest evil cults.

The banquet could not continue due to the assassination attempt, and Klein and his companion were taken back to their detached villa by carriage.

Both of them stared blankly at a check on the table, which had a “huge” amount written on it.

"Is this our event budget?" Leonard asked.

Klein nodded blankly; he had never done such a lucrative mission in his entire life!

(End of this chapter)