Chapter 89: Mental Imprint

Chapter 89: Mental Imprint

Xio remained dazed for more than ten seconds before she remembered to respond. Looking at the man in the golden mask, she nodded.

“Alright. I will pay attention—pay attention to the people Viscount Stratford comes into contact with.”

The man in the golden mask did not seem to notice her brief distraction. He changed the subject and said, “There is one more mission. The Evernight Church’s Red Gloves are investigating matters related to the Numinous Episcopate. If you obtain any relevant intelligence, contact me immediately.”

Xio gave an “mm,” still unable to break free from the emotion stirred up just now.

The man in the golden mask stayed silent for several seconds, then considered his words and said, “Are you interested in directly joining MI9?

“You can continue maintaining your current identity and remain active in the East Borough.”

Xio froze for two seconds. Her mouth opened slightly, but she could not make a decision at once.

The man in the golden mask did not require her to answer immediately. With a smile, he said, “There is no need to rush. Tell me your answer after you truly become an Interrogator.”

With that, he retreated step by step, merging into the shadows at the other end of the alley.

…

That same night, Klein once again woke from a dream.

The mental mark he had arranged in the sewers beneath Böklund Street had been triggered!

Who else is not sleeping in the middle of the night… Hazel is no longer afraid of being possessed by a Wraith?

Klein helplessly sighed, took the iron cigarette case wrapped in a wall of spirituality from beneath his pillow, and walked onto the balcony, where the curtains were tightly shut.

The Wraith Senor swiftly jumped to the surface of a gas streetlamp enclosed by metal bars, then passed through a manhole cover and plunged deep into the sewers.

Before long, through his marionette’s eyes, Klein saw Hazel in a civilian dress.

The young lady was warily heading toward her destination. Her left hand unconsciously lifted to touch the necklace hanging at her chest, one set with seven emerald stones, while her right palm tightly gripped a charm made of gold.

Although the charm had yet to be activated, it gave off a warm sensation like sunlight, along with the freshness of morning dew.

Seeing this, Klein abruptly remembered something he had encountered during his early morning walk:

Hazel had risen early and wandered through her family’s garden!

At that time, was she collecting materials for making a charm in the Sun domain? Morning dew?

Klein made that uncertain guess and found it rather strange, because not only was Hazel semi-illiterate in the field of mysticism and ignorant of much common sense, she was also a believer of the Evernight Goddess.

For a Beyonder like that to pray to the Eternal Blazing Sun would basically receive no response. Even if a special, low-probability event occurred, it should be punishment!

“Because she has not gone to the sewers for excavation and searching for too long, the Beyonder guiding her through dreams has grown anxious. So, through a dream, they performed reverse indoctrination and taught her how to create a charm from the Sun domain? Mm. The corresponding pathway starts with Marauder, and at the high level, Amon is also known as the Blasphemer. Does that mean that once this pathway reaches a certain Sequence, it gains the ability to disguise itself as believers of other deities, bypass safeguards, steal responses, and create all kinds of charms? This does fit their usual performance rather well…”

Through the Wraith Senor’s vision, Klein watched Hazel walk step by step toward the depths of the sewers.

According to his spiritual intuition, although that charm in the Sun domain targeted Wraiths, it was still far from enough to truly threaten a Sequence 5. At most, it could cause a certain amount of damage. After all, Hazel could not obtain materials of too high a level.

However, Klein did not have his…