Klein unscrewed the cap of the metal bottle and brought it to his nose, smelling a slightly stimulating but invigorating scent.
This is "Holy Night Powder" made from herbs such as Deep Sleep Flower, Dragon Blood Grass, Crimson Sandalwood, and Mint. Because it is simple to make, Klein found an opportunity to get a bottle after replenishing the materials in the underground trading market. Now it comes in handy.
He poured some of the "Holy Night Powder" into his palm, then calmed his mind and made his eyes darker.
Then, Klein put away the metal bottle, picked up the powder, poured spiritual energy into it, and sprinkled it on the ground.
He walked and sprinkled, circling Sirius's body.
An invisible wall suddenly stood up, isolating this place from the outside world.
Klein shook off the remaining "Holy Night Powder" and took out another small metal bottle, then dripped the "Amanda" hydrosol and other essences in it around the room one by one.
The order in which he arranged the ceremony was different from that of Old Neil at Reil Bieber's house, because the things he wanted to pray for were different and the goals he hoped to achieve were also different.
For example, Old Neil sprinkled the spirit first and then used "holy night powder", which could create a tranquility and holiness second only to the formal altar. Klein used "holy night powder" first and then sprinkled the spirit, because his purpose was only to prevent Sirius's remaining spirituality from being disturbed by the surrounding things and to have an environment that barely met the needs of the ritual.
——If he used old Neil's method, the remaining spirituality of Sirius would be driven out, and communication would be impossible.
After doing all this, Klein put away the materials, remained in a meditative state, and whispered the spell written in Hermetic:
"I pray for the strength of the night;"
"I pray for the hidden power;"
"I pray for the goddess's favor."
"I pray that you will allow me to communicate with the cultist spirits within the altar."
As the spell echoed in the sealed environment, Klein suddenly felt the arrival of a majestic, terrifying, and secret power.
His eyes turned completely black, as if he had lost his pupils and the whites of his eyes.
Seizing this opportunity, Klein silently recited the "divination sentence" in his mind:
"The recipe for the Joker potion."
"The recipe for the Joker potion."
While silently reciting, he used meditation to put himself into a dream state for a short time, and he entered the dream state while standing.
In the gray world without sky and earth, Klein was looking at a transparent, illusory figure with unusual clarity this time.
He stretched out his right hand and touched the remaining spirit of Sirius.
With a bang, the scene in front of him changed abruptly.
It was a desk painted dark red, with a silver candlestick holding three candles and a blank piece of letter paper placed on it.
Sirius was holding a fountain pen and writing in the common Loen language:
"This is the second recipe. The name recorded in the notes is 'Joker'."
"0 ml of pure water, 5 drops of Datura juice, 10 grams of black-edged sunflower powder, 0 grams of golden mantle grass powder, 3 drops of poison hemlock juice. The above are auxiliary materials."
"The main, extraordinary materials are: a crystal of the horn of an adult Hornachis gray goat and a complete human-faced rose."
Sirius didn't seem to need to recall and quickly wrote down the recipe for the Clown Potion.
At this time, he paused for a moment, took a sip of coffee, and then untied the silver pendant around his wrist.
He held the pendant, half closed his eyes, and muttered words and sentences such as "Day of Destruction", "Peace of Mind", "May God bless you", and "I confess to you".
After Sirius finished praying, Klein finally saw the pendant clearly.
Below the silver bracelet, which was clasped together, hung a thumb-sized human-shaped statue.
The statue has a giant's unique vertical single eye, its head is facing downwards, and its feet are tied with chains and connected to the top. ..
At this moment, the giant's vertical single eye suddenly flashed a blood-red light.
Crack!
The scene Klein saw was instantly shattered. His legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground.
Klein felt a pain in his head as if he had been hit hard with a stick. Everything in front of his eyes was blood red, and his hands involuntarily rested on his knees.
After a few seconds, he recovered and stood up again. He felt that his spirit was extremely weak and he seemed to hear the whisper that pierced his mind again.
However, thanks to his progress in "digesting" the potion, all the abnormal reactions soon calmed down.
"The Hanged Giant, the real creator Sirius and Heinus are members of the Aurora Society? However, what the captain saw in Heinus Vincent's dream was a huge cross, a terrifying existence hanging upside down and nailed to the cross, not the 'Hanged Giant' of the Aurora Society." Klein took two deep breaths and waited for his spirituality to slowly recover.
The Aurora Society is a secret organization that has only appeared in the last two or three hundred years. They worship the "True Creator" and use the upside-down giant as a symbol of that existence. They believe that everyone possesses divinity, and as long as the spirit is strong enough and can withstand the test again and again, they can accumulate rich divinity and become angels.
According to the internal records of the Night Watchmen, the sequence mastered by the Aurora Society is called "Secret Prayers". These extraordinary people can sense certain mysterious and terrifying existences, and have mastered certain sacrificial knowledge and a small amount of ritual magic. There is enough evidence to show that senior "Secret Prayers" will more or less have distorted cognitive views and are prone to losing control.
The sequence that the Aurora Society has mastered is unknown, the sequence is "Listener", which is a rather terrifying extraordinary "profession":
Every "Listener" can directly hear the whispers of the corresponding hidden existence, so they can often gain a lot of powerful, twisted, and unique abilities. But correspondingly, if the "Listener" cannot be promoted, it will be difficult for them to survive for more than five years. In addition, the evaluation given by the internal information of the Night Watchers is that all "Listeners" are crazy, even if they behave normally at ordinary times, they must be hidden crazy.
Klein quickly reviewed the information about the Aurora Society in his mind and initially determined that Sirius was a "secret praying person."
"From the description, the Secret Prayers and the Diviners are equally bad at encounters. This is consistent with Sirius's performance. Was it the serious injury that caused him to lose control? Uh, Frye said that after the death of every Beyonder, there will be some strange changes to a greater or lesser extent." Klein thought as he tapped his chest four times, praising the goddess.
Then, with his spiritual power slightly restored, he completed the ceremony in order and unlocked the sealed spiritual wall.
The wind whistled, and Klein forced himself to look at Sirius's body again.
He noticed that there was still an obvious tumor on Sirius's bloody face. The tumor was dark purple and almost black, and there seemed to be ** and light shaking inside.
“What kind of change is this?” Klein rubbed his temple and didn’t dare to touch it.
He bent down and picked up the cane, letting the other person bear some of his body weight.
After the backlash just now, he knew that Sirius's remaining spirituality had been completely destroyed, and even the "psychic" Daly could not communicate with him.
After waiting for a while, Klein saw captain Dunn and teammates Leonard and Coenley.
"I feel that you have a fateful bond with the Beyonders and the forces of evil. The extraordinary events you have encountered during this period are more than what we saw in the previous quarter." Leonard glanced at the corpse on the ground and made a joke.
"Perhaps it's not a coincidence." Klein suddenly thought of the red chimney he saw in the "Dream Divination" and the towering palace and invisible gaze on the main peak of the Honachis Mountains that he saw last time, so he took the opportunity to make a comment.
Dunn looked around and looked at Klein with his deep gray eyes.
"Have you tried psychic communication?"
The smell of "holy night powder" and hydrosol essential oil still lingered at the scene.
"Yes." Klein answered calmly, "I'm worried that you guys arrived too late and the remaining spiritual energy is showing signs of dissipating."
"You don't look very well," the short Cohen asked with concern.
Klein handed Sirius's unsent letter to the captain and said from the beginning:
"When I went to the underground market to buy ritual materials, I suddenly remembered that Selina had been to the Dragon Bar, and it was Henas Vincent who led her in. This means that Henas was a frequent visitor there. So, I suspect that the gentleman in the portrait, who has a certain relationship with Henas, may have also been to the underground market."
"I took the portrait to ask the boss Swain, and he gave me a positive answer, telling me that the gentleman tried to buy cultural relics and ancient books related to the main peak of Honachis. This made me think of this place, and when I borrowed the corresponding journals, someone had just returned them."
Leonard listened with a smile, and suddenly interrupted:
"So you came here with your trainee inspector credentials and the badge of the Special Operations Department to investigate the borrowing records of those journals? In fact, I'm very curious why you had a conflict with this gentleman? Even if you met directly, according to your style of doing things, you should pretend that you didn't know each other, leave the library as soon as possible, and come to Zouteland Street to ask for our help."
"Yes, you don't have to take risks. As long as you have determined the target and he has not left Tingen, there will always be a way to find him later." Dunn, who was browsing the letter, added.
Klein suddenly felt a little embarrassed:
“The librarian recognised him and yelled to the officer for help.”
“I can’t pretend I didn’t hear it.”
Leonard and Cohen looked at each other immediately, one of them didn't hide his smile, and the other turned his head away.
Dunn nodded slightly, turned his eyes away from the letter and said:
"What can you gain from psychic communication?"
"I saw a pendant with an upside-down giant carved on it, and saw the giant's single eye flash blood red, and then I withdrew from the ceremony." Klein described it truthfully.
He did not mention the Joker potion for the time being, based on two considerations:
On the one hand, if Dunn and others can find corresponding records in Sirius' hiding place in the subsequent investigation, then there will be no difference between what he said and what he didn't say, and it will not add any extra credit.
On the other hand, if Dunn and others didn't find it, he could find an opportunity to report it in the future and accumulate more credit for applying for materials and preparing potions. This was a way of dividing one credit into two, which came from old Neil's words and deeds during this period.
"Will Aurora?" Dunn whispered thoughtfully, and then asked some related questions.
After Klein answered them one by one, he glanced at the other's tired expression, raised his cane and said:
"Yes, you have disrupted a conspiracy against Tingen City. You can go back and rest. Coenli, go find Old Neil."
After giving the order, Dunn shook his head and smiled bitterly:
"Before the sequence, the Beyonders of the Path of the Sleepless lacked many auxiliary abilities, and even could only master the simplest and most basic ritual magic."
"Captain, do you mean that starting from the sequence, the Beyonders of the Sleepless Path will be enhanced accordingly?" Klein asked curiously.
"Yes." Dunn gave an affirmative answer.
After leaving Deville Library, Klein almost fell asleep several times while riding the public carriage back to Daffodil Street.
He forced himself to walk in, took off his hat and coat, and fell asleep on the sofa.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly woke up, took out his pocket watch, and put it away.
"Melissa will be back in half an hour, and Benson will be back in forty to fifty minutes. They will have to wait an hour and a half before they can enjoy dinner." Klein rubbed his forehead and walked into the kitchen.
He first washed his face with cold water, then took out the oxtail, tomatoes, carrots, onions and other ingredients he had bought at noon.
After finishing his preparations, he was suddenly stunned, feeling that this didn't match what happened in the afternoon.
“I’m the man who just saved Tingen City,” Klein muttered in amusement, put on a white apron, picked up a kitchen knife, and started to work.