Part 1 The Joker Chapter 133 Burning Charms
Hearing Klein’s answer, Elizabeth was instantly a bit nervous and unconsciously sped up her speech:
”Can you help me divine what exactly is the cause? It would be better if I can divine a solution ……”
Divination can at best give the direction of the solution, and it’s still full of symbolism, vague and easy to interpret incorrectly …… Of course, you’re lucky that I’m not just a mere soothsayer, but also an occultist in the true sense of the word …… Klein belabored the girl’s question twice and said solemnly and seriously:
”Since it has to do with dreams, I would suggest a divination method for that.”
”Okay, okay.” Elizabeth nodded her head like a chicken eating a meal.
Klein maintained a serious and professional demeanor and said, “I need you to sleep here and recreate that dream, no problem, right?”
”No problem, I trust you.” Elizabeth pursed her lips and replied without hesitation.
But she quickly stammered and added, “But, but I, I can’t guarantee that I will, definitely, definitely have that dream.”
”It’s just a try.” Klein soothed the other with a gentle smile.
Then, he pointed to the long sofa on the side of the “Red Onyx” divination room and said, “Please.”
”No, no need, I’ll sleep here.” Elizabeth gently shook her head and assumed the posture of crossing her arms, “When I feel tired in the public school, I take advantage of the breaks between classes to take a nap like this.”
As she spoke, she used her arms as pillows and leaned her upper body forward, onto the edge of the table.
”Okay, you can pretend I don’t exist.” Klein smiled as he watched the other girl’s aura and mood color as a way of determining whether or not the girl had been successful in falling asleep.
”Hmm.” Elizabeth closed her eyes and buried her face in the crook of her arm, trying to even out her breathing.
Without another word, Klein leaned back in his chair and the room became unusually peaceful.
It was the kind of peace that calmed the mind and forgot about the outside.
After a while, after confirming that Elizabeth had entered a state of sleep, Klein took out a semicircular silver sheet from his shirt pocket, and on top of the sheet was covered with Hermetic words that were difficult for ordinary people to understand and various symbols, numbers, and signs full of symbolic meaning.
This was the “Dream Charm” that Klein had successfully made yesterday morning!
At the same time, he had also completed two “Sleeping Charms” and two “Soul Resting Charms”, the former with rectangular silver sheets and the latter with triangular ones, so that he could distinguish them in the heat of battle just by feel.
”Crimson!” Klein vocalized in a low voice, pronouncing a word from the ancient Hermetic language.
It was the opening incantation he had set up, and since there was a subsequent infusion of spirituality, it didn’t need to be different from the others, as long as it was suitable for memorization and short enough.
As the mysterious voice echoed, Klein felt that the “dream spell” in his palm became light and seemed to have lost its weight for a short while.
When the spirit was infused into it, he immediately placed the spell on the table in front of him.
Transparent flames noiselessly rose, wrapped around the spell, and burned out a deep and serene black color.
This black color flew and filled the room, enveloping Klein and Elizabeth at once.
Seizing the opportunity, Klein entered a meditative state and used his aura to see an illusory and hazy oval ball of light in front of him.
This ball of light was surrounded only by infinite deep blackness, setting it off as unusually lonely.
Klein didn’t dare to delay, immediately spreading his spirituality and touching that ball of light that wasn’t real enough.
Wordlessly, the scene around him began to turn upside down and flicker, but soon fixed into a yellowish-brown plain, on top of which fell many horses and humans, with blood and weapons everywhere.
Elizabeth, dressed in a court dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves and a bonnet draped with muslin, was looking around in bewilderment.
She caught Klein’s figure at once and a surprised smile brushed her face:
”Mr. Moretti, we meet again! When Selena and I went to the Divination Club to get a divination before, we suspected that that Klein Moretti on the roster was you, and then I went there a few more times, but due to the fact that I usually had to go to class, I was always on the wrong side of the time with you ……”
”By the time summer vacation was over and it became free, I was taken on vacation by my father and mother to the small town of Ramrod ……”
”You must be able to help me, right?”
Listening to the girl’s ramblings, Klein was briefly actually a bit baffled:
It turns out that Elizabeth had long suspected that I was moonlighting at the Divination Club, and had made a point of coming here a few times ……
It’s surprising that she didn’t show any abnormality at all just now!
Well, the surprise is real, just cover up the real idea ……
It’s true, everyone is honest in the dream world, except me, Mr. Fool ……
In the midst of his thoughts, Elizabeth’s dream changed, and a tall knight over one meter nine in height came forward, dragging a broadsword that could touch the ground.
This knight wore a black full body armor, and there was a slight sound of metal clashing coming out between his actions, and two balls of flame-like red light came out from the cracks of his face armor, staring at Klein and Elizabeth in death.
The intention of a resentful soul …… is not yet up to the level of an evil spirit …… Klein, who is already in a spiritual state, does not need to open his spiritual vision at this time.
In the division of the internal information of the night watchman, the residual resentment and unwillingness are the weakest and easiest to deal with soul type things, followed by the ghostly shadow and the resentful soul in order, and the evil spirit belongs to the very tricky soul type monsters, and the most horrifying evil spirits are said to be no weaker than the high sequence of strong people.
Thinking of this, Klein took a step forward and blocked in front of Elizabeth’s body, then stepped heavily with his right foot, causing the dream world to instantly fragment.
Countless firefly-like rays of light flew, and Klein’s spirituality returned to his body, allowing his eyes to see the dimly lit “red onyx” divination room, the table with various divination props, and the “dream spells” that burned out with only a few embers left behind. I saw the table with all kinds of divination props and the “dream spell” that burned out with only a few embers left.
Looking at this scene, thinking that the charms of the Goddess of the Night’s domain were all made of pure silver, Klein couldn’t help but feel a heartache:
This thing is just burning money! Even if I don’t consider my labor costs, just counting the various materials, on average, it would be 6 to 8 Sols a piece!
Well, thinking about the extraordinary people of the Church of the Eternal Sun, it feels a lot more balanced, after all, they are burning gold ……
–The corresponding metal of the Sun Domain is gold.
At this time, Elizabeth softly “hmm”, slowly woke up, and sat upright again.
She looked at Klein somewhat evasively and said:
”Mr. Moretti, have there been any divination results?”
”Yes.” Klein nodded rather squarely, “It won’t take more than a week for the nightmares to go away on their own.”
I’ll report it to the captain so he can send someone to Ramrod’s Town in time to deal with it …… Klein mentally added the unsaid part.
”Really? Great! Thank you, Mr. Moretti!” Elizabeth became excited and thrilled all at once, then suddenly frowned.
”What’s wrong?” Klein asked with concern.
”Nothing much, just the thought of having to go home.” With slow movements she took out the one-soule bill she had prepared, placed it on the table, and then taking her hat, bade Crane a haughty farewell.
Leaving the “Red Onyx” divining-room, she made her way at a light pace to the staircase outside the front door, and, when she was sure that no one was looking, she shook both her arms sharply, and exclaimed in a low voice of pain:
”Good numb, good numb ……”
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Inside the Blackthorn Security Company, Dunn rubbed his forehead, and his gray eyes gazed at the opposite side of Klein and said:
”Did you suddenly return, did you encounter another extraordinary event?”
Hey, captain, why do you have a tone of disgust …… Klein cleared his throat and answered without hesitation:
”Yes.”
”What event?” Dunn Smith rubbed his forehead again.
Klein answered methodically:
”Two incidents, one is that when I went to the underground trading market earlier to buy rune materials, I found the ‘monster’ Admiral Admiral huddled in a corner, shaking all over in fear.”
Here he frantically implies that the cost of the materials needs to be reimbursed.
As for the cost of the detective search for Duster Guderian, he was conversely bad at mentioning it because of the involvement of the Red Chimneys, and deeply regretted that he had not entrusted it to two separate detective agencies at the time.
Dunn did not seem to hear Crane’s hidden meaning, and nodded gently:
”What happened at Ardmisol?”
Klein exhaled silently and described in detail:
”Admiral had a dream about a floor full of blood, full of dead people, including himself, and was terrified terribly.”
Dunn spoke slowly as if in thought:
”As a soothsayer, what do you think this symbolizes?”
”A catastrophe, one with a relatively wide reach, but other than that, there is no other information, and not every one of Ademisael’s dreams may hold symbolism.” Klein replied with deliberation.
”I will submit it to the Sanctuary and see what opinion they will give.” Dunn shook his head and smiled to himself, “It’s not something I’m good at.”
Crane had no other thoughts and turned to the matter of Elizabeth being haunted by a grudging spirit’s intent.
”That young lady in the town of Ramad …… is a devotee of the goddess, right?” Dunn asked thoughtfully.
”Yes.” Klein replied in the affirmative.
”Then there’s no problem, you and I will head to Ramrod’s Town now and try to enjoy dinner there, well, and take Fry with you, his abilities are very useful in dead body and ghost related events.” Dunn rubbed his temples, trying to think if he had forgotten anything.
–If Elizabeth doesn’t believe in the Goddess of the Night, then she must be handed over to either the Punisher or the Mechanical Heart, depending on her specific beliefs, and if her beliefs aren’t even within the three main churches, then she’ll fall under the responsibility of the suburbs. If her beliefs are not even within the three churches, then it will belong to the “Mechanical Heart” which is responsible for the suburbs.
Klein didn’t say anything else, and waited quietly for a while before hearing Dunn add:
”Also, we are a three person operation, we can apply to use the seal ‘3-0782’.”
”3-0782?” Klein thought hard for a while before remembering that the corresponding seal was the “Mutated Sun Holy Emblem”.
The transcendent effect of this holy emblem seems to last for a long, long time, its function is to continuously purify the dead bodies and ghosts within 15 meters, the disadvantage is that it will also purify the souls of normal people at the same time, the research data shows that if a normal person stays within 15 meters of the emblem for an hour, he will become an idiot who only knows how to “praise the sun”, the limit for extraordinary people is 6 hours. The limit for extraordinary people is 6 hours.
As for ghosts and corpses, they will dissipate in less than a minute.
Hey, the captain even remembered the code name of this seal …… I go, I feel that the memory is not as good as him …… Klein suddenly stunned, almost looking for a noodle to hang himself.
Just at this time, Dunn Smith leaned back and asked with gray eyes:
”You’ve been to the Divination Club again? Did you feel any change in the last two days?”