Part 1 The Joker Chapter 58 A Thought
The next day, early Monday morning.
Instead of going out on his shift, Klein gave his letter to his mentor, Cohen Quentin, and the extra postage to Melissa, and asked his sister to drop it off at the post office near the Tingen Technical School.
After breakfast, he took his time to catch up on the sleep he’d missed while “on the job” and didn’t get back up until close to noon, when his stomach growled.
After warming up last night’s leftovers and nibbling on a loaf of oatmeal bread, Klein grabbed a newspaper and headed into the second floor bathroom.
Every now and then, he couldn’t help but sigh at the lack of a cell phone.
Seven or eight minutes later, he emerged refreshed, washed his hands, and returned to his bedroom, unlocking the door.
Then Klein drew the curtains together, lit the gas lamp, did half an hour of meditation, practiced his spirit sight, spirit pendulum, and divining rod for half an hour, and reviewed his knowledge of the occult by way of recollection for an hour.
After doing so, he tore up a dozen or so balls of used newspaper, wrote down the names of materials such as “moon flower candles” and “full-moon oils,” and simulated the process of ceremonial magic in order to master the details of the process. -He did not intend to attempt ritual magic before he was truly skilled and learned more, as it would be both a waste of materials and an easy invitation to danger.
Over and over again, Klein picked up the silver and white pocket watch with the trailing branch pattern and pressed it open to glance at it, realizing that the time was just past two forty-five.
After a few seconds of consideration, he took the scrap newspaper to the first floor kitchen and burned it, using it as an opportunity to get himself in shape for the Tarot party.
Unlocking his bedroom door once more, Klein didn’t bother waiting for three o’clock to arrive, intending to enter the gray mist above early.
He would take this opportunity to explore the place properly!
Just as Klein stood up to the empty space in the room and was about to start walking counterclockwise, he suddenly thought of something from worrying about whether “Justice” and “The Hanged Man” had entered the right environment and would be disturbed and discovered by others:
He said that he wanted to find a way to allow “Justice” and “Hanged Man” to “take a leave of absence” from the party in advance if they really couldn’t get away, or if they encountered any other situation.
To the former Kline, this is an almost unsolvable problem, he can’t hand car an otherworldly instant messaging network, and wired telegrams will expose themselves.
And now, he instantly found inspiration from ritual magic:
”With the help of external power type ritual magic, all of them are praying for the help of different existences, and similar incantations will surely have a clear point at the beginning, such as the God of Darkness, the Crimson Lord, such as the description of those unknown and hidden existences.”
”Then can I modify the spell so that the description at the beginning points to me?”
”Point to me ……”
”In this way, even if ‘Justice’ and ‘The Inverted Hanged Man’ perform their rituals in a foreign land, I will still be able to obtain the appropriate information.”
Klein’s spirit suddenly perked up and began to analyze the feasibility of this approach:
”Two difficulties, first, I’m not a High Sequencer who is powerful to a certain extent, even if the description of the spell does point to me, it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to receive the ‘request’.”
”Secondly, how do I make sure that the spell’s description points to me accurately, to make sure that it doesn’t hit and run the wrong way and hit some other unknown being that matches the description, that would pose a great danger.”
Klein paced back and forth, contemplating possible solutions.
His feet were silent as he turned round and round, naturally connecting the matter to the mysterious world above the gray mist.
”Just because I can’t receive a ‘request’ doesn’t mean that gray mist can’t, the combination of it and the Crimson Star is capable of ‘pulling’ people directly into space, ignoring distance.”
”Consider tying me to that mysterious space association when making a pointing description ……”
”Following this line of reasoning, although I can’t immediately receive a ‘request’ when the other party performs a ceremony, as long as I enter above the gray mist, I’ll be able to see the corresponding information.”
”To put it simply, it’s the difference between QQ’s online and offline messages.”
The more Klein thought about it, the more excited he became, thinking that this idea could be tried.
”Hmm, then what description should be used to precisely point to me, to that gray fog world?” He began to think about the specifics.
In fact, he had an incantation that could definitely succeed, that is, the pure Ruen voice translation of the “Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun”, but the problem was that it would cause him to lose control over the gray mist and lose his dominant position, so it could only be ruled out.
”…… ‘Fool from another world’? No, that’s precise enough, there would hardly be another being that would fit the bill, but it would reveal my biggest secret ……” Klein thought of spell after spell, but all of them self-denied.
After seven or eight minutes, he finally finalized the first pointing description in the spell:
”A fool not of this age.”
That was clearly not precise enough, and Klein added another paragraph on the fly:
”The mysterious lord above the gray mist.”
The combination of the two pretty much qualified him, and bound the gray mist to himself.
”There’s still a bit to go, don’t rule out multiple dimensions and multiple masters above the gray mist, don’t rule out this description pointing to the spirit world ……” Klein frowned, intent on adding another layer of insurance.
Well …… he considered it for a full minute before finally coming up with the last paragraph of the description:
”The yellow and black king who reigns over good fortune!”
This is an approximate translation of the “God of Fortune and Yellow”, if only it, it is likely to run off course and make a mistake, attracting unknown dangerous existence, but with the qualification of the previous two paragraphs, and with its own example of relying on a similar incantation to enter the gray fog, the object of the description can be completely locked.
According to these three descriptions to perform ritual magic, Klein did not know whether it would be effective, but it was certain that it would not attract the attention of other existences, and would not put “Justice” and “Inverted Man” in danger.
Klein let out a long breath and recited the incantation he had thought of:
”O fool not of this age, you are the mysterious lord above the gray mist, you are the yellow and black king of good fortune ……”
He nodded imperceptibly and pulled out the pocket watch in his pocket to determine the time.
”It’s two-fifty-eight ……” Without further thought, Klein put away the pocket watch and entered into meditation, accompanied by an incantation that took four steps counterclockwise to a square.
The most violent noise and the most scratchy shouts were heard once again, and he felt a headache that was more unbearable than the Diviner’s Potion.
This is not the same as the intense pain of the head penetration, it is a kind of mania, make people lose their mind, make people confused swelling pain.
Klein controlled himself in a meditative way, trying not to listen.
The murmurs and whispers receded in a tidal wave, his body lightened, his spirituality lightened, and everything drifted.
Boundless gray mist appeared in his sight, crimson stars either far or near, as if they were a single eye.
Above the gray fog, the palace that loomed like the residence of giants still stood, as if it had existed here for millions of years.
Klein just moved his mind, and his figure had already disappeared in place, sitting at the head of the long bronze table with twenty-two high-backed chairs.
”The ritual effect is indeed fixed ……” he whispered, tapping his brow and letting the grayish mist envelop him, denser than ever before – according to the “According to the description of the Inverted Man, if Justice became an audience, it would be best not to show her demeanor to her.
There was no time to investigate, Klein stretched out his right hand and constructed an invisible link to communicate with the two familiar crimson stars.
……
An ancient sailing ship sailed downwind on the deep blue raging Sunia Sea.
Alger Wilson had barricaded himself in the captain’s cabin, allowing the ghost ship to give the highest level of protection.
The pocket watch spread out before him, beside the brass-colored sextant, clattered along, not joyful enough to be tense.
The hour, minute, and second hands were just pointing in the right place when a deep red erupted before Alger Wilson’s eyes, ignoring layer after layer of protection.
Hey …… his sigh echoed through the captain’s chamber.
……
BECKLAND, Queens.
Audrey Hall leaned back against the velvet pillows and looked once more at the tawny paper in her hands, her jeweled eyes seeming to harbor two slow-turning vortexes of souls.
Her gaze was calm and cool, as if waiting for a drama to unfold.
The crimson erupted, and she “watched” herself being engulfed in a downward spiral.
……
Above the gray mist, in the grand palace, the bronze table is mottled and ancient.
Audrey Hall’s silhouette just appeared, early on opened the spiritual vision of Klein looked over, no surprise to see the other side of the aura of the depths of the colors blended into one, become pure, serene as a clear reflection of things in the lake.
She really has become an extraordinary person …… Klein was about to move his gaze away when he suddenly realized that the high-backed chair belonging to Ms. “Justice” had changed.
The bright stars on the back of the chair moved quickly, forming an illusory constellation that did not belong to reality.
In Klein’s eyes, this constellation is so familiar, because it is a symbol in the occult.
The symbol of the “dragon”!
Audience …… Chiron …… Klein controlled himself not to shake his head and looked inquisitively at the high-backed seat of the Inverted Man.
Normally, from his angle of vision, he would not have been able to see the back of the seat, but this was his home turf, and everything was presented according to his will.
The constellation on the back of the seat remained unchanged, but Klein, who had been initiated into the occult, was no longer as ignorant as he had been before, and recognized it as the symbol of the Storm.
Sailors …… Sea Favors …… Storms …… That’s not a problem ……” The colors in the depths of the “Hanged Man’s” aura are much purer …… He’s been promoted? By the way, what about the symbol behind my seat?
Klein resisted the urge to tap his fingers on the edge of the long table three times, as he had done before, and smiled:
”Congratulations, Ms. ‘Justice’, you are now an Extraordinary.”
He could tell straight away? Audrey was stunned for a moment and smiled lightly:
”Thank you, thank you Mr. Fool, thank you Mr. Inverted Hangman.”
”Faster than I thought.” Alger Wilson said matter-of-factly.
Without continuing the subject, Klein tapped his brow and spoke with a smile:
”Ma’am, sir, did you ever find Roselle’s diary?”