Part 5. the red priests chapter 66 a day in september
”The Honorable Mr. Aztec:
”Ever since we entered September, the temperatures in Birkeland have been getting colder every day, and as of late, it has been possible to see old men out and about in their gloves.
”Like last year, the fog has begun to envelop the city for a day or two a week, if not more, and it’s clear that the fight against air pollution is by no means a complete success in a year or two; this is a cycle of at least five years. Happily, the pungent smell permeating the air has become much less, and my Blood friends are very pleased with the weather conditions.
”Another welcome change is that more and more students, postmen, and skilled workers are buying pedicabs, and the number of horse-drawn carriages on the streets has been lowered quite a bit, which means that horse manure and its pervasive smells have withdrawn from the ranks of the dominant players in the quality of the air in Berklend, though of course they still occupy a rather important place, you know, and the ladies and gentlemen who consider themselves to be of good standing don’t feel free to lower their style, though, as I have observed, the little ones in their families are gradually taking an interest in pedicabs.
”For some time now I have lived a normal life, going to St. Samuel’s Church and the ‘Ruane’s Charitable Scholarship Fund’ several times a week, participating in their activities, making sustained cash donations, watching the occasional horse race, attending theatrical performances, enjoying the symphony, going to clubs to play cards and golf, and holding or attending weekend banquets, balls and salons.
”I forgot to tell you that I have purchased an estate, which originally belonged to the Duke of Neagan’s family, and is called ‘Maege,’ which has its own fine vineyard and winery, and a large tract of woods and fields for planting and hunting, and whose main house is in the shape of a quadrangle with one long side missing, and is on four floors, with a There were a large number of rooms, and I strolled casually about in it for a while, taking more than ten thousand steps without going out of the hall, while it had a great number of sculptures, paintings, decorations, and fine crockery, and was so grand as to be like a palace.
”Perhaps I am exaggerating in my description, after all, I have never seen a real palace, and this was the first estate I ever owned, and I remember when I was in Tingen, I lived with my brother and sister in a rented house with only two rooms, and had to go to sleep every day smelling of coal.
”It was introduced to me by Major General Chunas Korg, and cost me a total of twenty thousand gold pounds, you need not worry about my finances, I made a large amount of money in the Southern Continent, and struck out on a few magical items, and currently have over seventeen thousand pounds in cash, fifteen thousand pounds in gold bullion, and numerous gold coins, Sool, and pennies.
”I am quite satisfied with Maege Manor, and have sent Richardson, my former valet, to be deacon of the manor; it is now autumn, and I am about to invite my guests to spend a delightful weekend there, and I hope Richardson will be ready.
”The mysterious world of Birkeland is unchanged for the present, and may it remain so.
”The ‘magic mirror’ I mentioned before has returned to form, but it seems to have left behind a PTSD against Amon, which automatically changes the color of the font, gives the wrong answer, and asks for my praise over and over again whenever the appropriate thing is mentioned in a question.
”It also has a different view on leaving the Church of Steam, and seems to have decided to stay for a while longer, believing it to be safer that way, and it even wants to exhibit hazards and turn into a ‘1’ seal, which, I must say, always amazes me with its thought processes.
”Thanks to some of its answers, I found a way to create pure darkness, and that is to create it with the Darkness Field Charms with dreams, which belongs to the response of the ‘Goddess of Darkness’, and can be categorized as pure, and in addition, after trial after trial, I finally mastered the meditative drawing and engraving of the Divine Symbol today that produced the desired item.”
As he wrote this, Klein, who was sitting on the sofa with his thighs as a desk, couldn’t help but stop his fountain pen and raised his hand to rub the corner of his forehead.
Failure after failure meant the loss of one “Spirit Worm” after another, and every time he separated the “Spirit Worm”, it was an injury like a tear in his spiritual body, which required a long period of time to recover.
Therefore, in order to leave a margin for accidents, Klein would not allow himself to reach his limit every time, and after separating three to four Spirit Worms, he chose to rest for a few days, and began to try inscribing them, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on.
Glancing at the rectangular “diamond” placed next to him, he saw from the constantly refracted light the layers of complex symbols stretching into the void, his head slightly dizzy, as if he was witnessing a piece of history.
Let’s call it the “Yesterday Revisited” spell. …… Klein withdrew his gaze and continued writing his letter:
”With another storm coming ashore in the coastal regions, and the Kingdom’s upper and lower chambers entering their traditional period of discussing important bills, it is inexplicably a little worrying that the New Year is getting closer and louder.
”May you recover quickly and wake up early.”
”Your eternal student, Klein Moretti.”
Putting away the pen and folding the letter paper, Klein blew the Aztec copper whistle and summoned the nearly four-meter tall white bone messenger.
Unlike before, this messenger only showed a head and an arm, the rest were below the floor, all on the second floor.
This made it appear much shorter than Klein.
After all, I am now barely considered a “death” dependents …… Klein handed the letter to the messenger and watched as it disintegrated into a waterfall of white bone and drilled into the ground.
After doing so, he picked up the “Yesterday Revisited” spell on the arm of the couch.
This was his first successful product, and he was going to use it for himself first. Anyway, once he had the experience, it would be easier to do it later.
As for the danger of borrowing power from his historical self, Klein had already divined in advance on the Gray Mist – he thought that if it involved the real Fool or the Master of the Light Gate, at least he would have the Gray Mist to help him. He thought that if it involved the real “Fool” or the “Light Gate” master, at least there was a gray mist and a mysterious space that could block it.
The result of the divination was that it was very safe.
Gazing at the long diamond-like rune for a few seconds, Klein opened his mouth without further hesitation and spat out an ancient Hermetic word:
”History!”
– The reason he tried it in the real world instead of above the gray mist was because he was worried that the mysterious space would block the tracing of the past.
With the sound of a difficult voice echoing, Kraven poured his spirituality into the “Yesterday Revisited” spell.
The light that spread out like hairs lit up, illuminating the surroundings with clarity and purity.
Vaguely, an image flashed before Kraven’s eyes.
It was him dancing lazily with Daley Simone beside the corpse of Ince Zangwill;
That was Dawn Dantes with her sideburns and her air of distinction;
Germaine Sparrow, with her bowler hat on, falling to the Black Tulip, favored by the wind;
Sherlock Moriarty, struggling with a meteorite falling from the sky;
Crane Moretti, who summoned Sunshine after hearing a baby cry at Blackthorn Security;
There’s the pale college graduate who raises his revolver and aims it at his temple.
Further on, all the images disappear, leaving only a gray mist.
And until the power of the charm ran out, Klein didn’t find the end of that fog.
Sure enough, my passage was related to that gray fog, that mysterious space, that strange “light door.”…… This basically confirms that I used to sleep in a cocoon, hanging on the light door, and that lasted for an unknown period of time… …Compared to the state when he first saw the “light door”, Klein, who had completed the confirmation, was quite calm, and seemed to have expected it.
Phew, next, we can make two “yesterday’s reappearance” spells for Will, this spell is not useful to me …… This week, I will not go to his home to visit, once a week to feed ice cream, always make people suspicious, their maids look at me a little strange look! …… Also, now that I’ve mastered the “Meditation Drawing and Inscribing Method” of the Divine Symbol, I can put the use of the “Worm of Time” to make Transcendent Bullets on the agenda. Leonard said that he would go to Tingen in the next few days to try to steal the power of the Mutant Sun Emblem. …… Klein raised his hand and rubbed his forehead as he got up and left the couch.
–At a previous tarot party, Leonard had handed over four divine symbols and magical signs from Palles Zoroaster, all from the realm of the Stealers, one of which was said to be able to mislead the enemy into errors of judgment, and one of which was said to be able to steal three of the target’s previously used symbols. It is said that one can mislead the enemy and make him make an error in judgment, one can steal three extraordinary abilities that the target has used before, starting from the most recent one and going back in order, one can make the enemy lose a lot of his life and enter into a state of aging if it can affect him exactly, and one can create “time worms” that do not have a long life cycle, and “parasitize” them in the target’s body quietly, and then the target can be taken over by the “stealer”. It can create a “worm of time” with a short life cycle, quietly “parasitize” the target’s body, and be manipulated by the person who uses the spell.
Klein’s remaining seven “Worms of Time”, he had already pre-made three “Luck Stealer” spells, gave one to Ms. Justice, and kept two for himself, which meant that he still had four. In other words, he still had four “Worm of Time”, so he could try all four effects, of course, his intuition told him that he might not be able to make all of them.
As for Leonard’s two “Worms of Time”, one of them became a “Luck Stealer” spell – Leonard according to the “World” Gelman Szczecin’s “Worms of Time”, one of them became a “Luck Stealer” spell. Leonard prayed to Mr. “Fool” according to the teachings of “World” Germaine Sparrow and received an answer, and one was made into a “parasitic” spell with the help of Palles Zoroaster.
By the end of the evening, Klein had succeeded five times and failed once, and had obtained two “Yesterday Revisited” charms, one “Parasitic Bullet”, one “Deceit Bullet”, one “Deprivation Bullet”, and one “Deprivation Bullet”, which he had used for the first time in his life. and one “Deprivation Bullet”.
The only one that failed was the “Aging Bullet”, and the reason seemed to be that the level of mysterious spatial power above the gray mist that he could mobilize at the moment was still insufficient.
Looking at the three strange bullets with similar shapes, transparent and translucent, Klein breathed a sigh of relief, took out the “Deathstroke” revolver, and stuffed them into it one by one – there were also three “Spirit-control bullets” that he had made earlier inside. The three “Spirit Control Bullets” he had made earlier were also inside.
Packing up the altar, he stepped out of the room, descended to the second floor, entered the dining room, and said to Walter, the butler, who was standing by:
”You can invite the guests for the weekend hunting trip to the countryside according to the list drawn up.”
”Yes, sir.” Walter was prepared for this and remained as serious and proper as ever.
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36 Zotland Street, Tingen City.
Leonard stepped out of the carriage and looked at the rebuilt building with a complicated expression, forgetting to go inside for a moment.