Divine Mysteries

Lucian was momentarily paralyzed by the scene in front of him: an unknown girl was pointing a pair of throwing knives at his head. Her shoulder-length blonde hair swayed in the light wind.

After regaining his senses, Lucian took a deep breath to find a way to relax and said: “My name is Lucian Berfort... I was a friend of the owner of this house, Durf Watson, and I came to visit him... but...- He turns around again to see the strange scene of a woman with a knife stabbed in her stomach and a man holding a knife with a deep cut in his throat.

The girl watches the scene behind him, she strangely doesn't seem shocked by it, and keeps a neutral expression, then says - Lucian... Do you know what could have happened for this to happen?

“I'd love to know too,” thought Lucian, and then said to her: ‘Miss, I'm sorry, but I really don't know...’ Suddenly something came into Lucian's head, an idea, about that strange object that he, Durf, Annie and Josh had seen. “Could that object be the cause of this case? It's not a bad possibility, after all, in the letter Durf said that when Josh saw the object he started to feel ill and stopped talking to them.”

The girl sighs and puts the knives back in her pants pocket, and she takes four steps forward until her walk is interrupted by a cough from Lucian, a forced cough to get the girl's attention.

She turns around calmly and waits for him to say something. Lucian takes a step forward, getting closer to the girl, but not too close, and says - “Miss, actually, I suspect something, but I don't know if it will be of much help...” he says sincerely to the girl.

The girl immediately crosses her arms and waits for his answer. Lucian keeps his eyes only on her, not wanting to look again at the body of the man and the woman behind the blonde-haired woman -Well, me, Durf, Annie and Josh were friends, and then we found a strange object, where after we saw it, Josh ended up getting sick and stopped contacting us, and I don't remember anything about the day we saw the object, and now we have... those two bodies behind you at my friend's house, Durf.

The girl watches the bodies out of the corner of her eye before turning her attention to the red-haired man in front of her.

There is an uncomfortable silence in the air, both of them in extreme silence, until the girl slowly approaches him and says - Do you really remember nothing about the object? Nothing at all?

-I don't remember, miss...

-All right then, Mr. Lucian.

-After all... what did you come here for? and why are you carrying throwing knives? I don't suppose that's an object you carry around - Lucian asked with doubt on his face.

-“Ah... I...” She fell silent again, and Lucian noticed something strange: the irises of her green eyes had become much darker than usual, maintaining their green hue, only darker.

The girl remained silent with her irises darker than normal, until her eyes returned to normal and she said: “I've come to investigate this place.

-“Investigate?” Lucian asks even more doubtfully.

-“Yes, to investigate, I am... from an organization that is allied with the police of the continent of Murren, we call ourselves the Night Breeze, we investigate strange cases that the police normally have no way of solving, we are secret organizations”, she said with sincerity in her voice.

Lucian was stunned by her answer: “This world is very similar to the one in the novels I read about!” he thought excitedly, sighed, tried to hold back a smile and said: “I see... Night Breeze... why did you reveal this to me? Aren't they secret?” he said doubtfully again.

The girl pointed at Lucian and touched his forehead, giving it a gentle nudge -You're special, like us- she said in a deep voice.

Lucian was surprised. “Why am I special too?” he asked as he crossed his arms and tried to think of some event that might have occurred in this “Maybe my transmigration?” he thought.

-“You have the aura of an Apprentice, white,” she said.

-"Apprentice? What do you mean?

-“Wait... you don't know about the Spiritual?” she said incredulously.

“Spiritual?” Lucian thought, and then he said, “I don't know, I should know.

-"Well... if you have the aura of an Apprentice, you should at least have some idea about the Spiritual in order to achieve this aura... Well... I'll explain it to you - she picks up her two daggers, to which Lucian notices a detail on her throwing knives that he hadn't noticed before, but they had a circle with a hole at the beginning of the handle, to which the girl places her index finger inside the circle and begins to turn the knife.

-The Spiritual world is vast, full of magnificent things and horrendous things for human eyes, so when you want to become a Spiritual you have to be sure of that decision, after all, this world is not for wimps. Spirituals are people who can use special abilities that you only see in fantasy books, for example - She twirls the throwing knife further on her finger and suddenly, small sparks of electricity start to appear and rotate along with the throwing knife, creating an electric ring through which the blade of the knife passes.

Lucian is amazed, he has special abilities in this world! This is something magnificent! What kind of abilities are there?

The girl then stops turning the knife on her finger and the lightning disappears, and she continues: “We Spirituals suffer from many problems, the most problematic being madness. Anyone who begins to show signs of madness has a huge risk of going mad and becoming a Corrupted Human, a person who has become a Corrupted creature. That's as much as I can explain to you for now, after all, I don't even know if you're really going to follow the path of a Spiritual, I only mentioned it since you have spiritual remnants.

Lucian thinks about it for a while, and this distracts him a little from the bodies of the woman and the man, calming him down slightly. He soon feels strange, because this is just like the books he used to read, except that the question of madness brought him a strong amount of fear and anxiety, he was afraid of becoming like the others who had also gone mad, but he had to risk it, after all, he had to get home!

He looks at the girl in front of him with firmness and decision in his gaze -I... want to join the Night Breeze and become a Spiritual... I want to find out more about it, I want to know what could have caused the death of my friends... I want to be able to protect myself and the others around me...

The girl smiles slightly, but keeps a sad expression -All right... I'm going to investigate this place, wait for me outside, then I'll take you to the Night Breeze base...

Lucian turns to leave Durf's house, but he stops walking and turns to the girl and says: “Excuse me, but what's your name?” he asks while pinching his own arm to hold back the urge to vomit at the sight of the bodies lying on the ground again.

The girl turned to him neutrally and said - Ruby... Ruby Wilson, nice to meet you, Lucian Berfort- She then turned back to the bodies and crouched down in front of them.

Lucian then leaves the house and leans against the wall, he stands there waiting for Ruby to finish her investigation “ Spiritual... what a surprise, special abilities in this world... me having an aura... could it be because of that strange object I found with Durf, Annie and Josh? Or was it because I transmigrated to this world? I need to find out what happened to them...

“But... their deaths looked more like a case of suicide than murder, the woman's not so much, after all, she had the knife stabbed into her belly, but she wasn't holding it. The man, on the other hand, was clearly a suicide, after all, he was holding the knife and had his neck cut, or did the murderer kill them and decide to pretend it was actually a suicide?” Ideas fill Lucian's head, but his thoughts are interrupted by Ruby coming out of Durf Watson's house.

She turns to Lucian and sighs - Lucian, the man's name was Durf Watson and his wife Annie Jarmen, they died recently, less than 10 hours ago, probably last night. They seemed to be on the verge of becoming Corrupted, the state of their aura was terrible... at least their suffering has been calmed and they can now rest in peace... may the Goddess bless them...- She makes a half-moon symbol on her chest before closing her eyes for a few seconds.

This symbol on her chest is the symbol of the church of Madame del Luar, which is a half-moon. A few seconds later, Lucian passes his finger over his chest in a wave-like motion, this was the symbol of the Wuthering Heights church, to which Lucian recalls the brief memories of the old Lucian, and says - May the wind bless you.

After saying their prayers to the dead, the two decide to leave, Ruby explaining a few things to Lucian on the way.

She had hidden the bodies in a well-hidden place and the next day they would collect them and bury them for a good funeral.

Another explanation was about the cases and the Night Breeze's investigation. The cases don't come up quickly, but when they do you usually have to be careful, as they are cases that the normal police can't handle, but people with special skills are assigned to them.

Another point explained to Lucian is that special powers arise from the Core of the Corrupted or Living Spiritual Beings, in this case spiritual humans. The Core is an object that luckily appears in the corpse of the Corrupted to which something can come that will be one of three types: Weapons, Artifacts and Skills. Weapons are special weapons that give enhancements to physical or mental attributes or even extra abilities attached to the weapon; Artifacts are objects that give you an advantage and a disadvantage, which can be dangerous, but very useful; And finally, skills, which as Ruby demonstrated, are special abilities that the person who gets the skill can use.

This made Lucian very interested, but she again warned him about the risk of madness when specifically obtaining a Skill, because it affects inside your own soul, and this can cause your soul to change if you're not careful, and then turn into a Corrupted, a bizarre monster.

After a while, the two arrived in front of a bar, a bar called the “Midnight Bar”, which looked normal from the outside, and inside was normal too, there were few people there drinking and playing card games, and it was very quiet. There are several round wooden tables and barrel-shaped chairs, a long counter where the barman stands behind it, and just behind him there are shelves with the ingredients for his alcoholic drink recipes.

Ruby continues walking and reaches the back of the bar, where she comes across a simple wooden door. She knocks on the door rhythmically, two quick knocks, a wait, a quick knock, a wait and then three loud knocks. The door opens and shows several steps of a staircase, where the staircase is narrow, one person at a time, no more than one person on the same step.

The two of them carefully descended the stairs so as not to trip, the lighting was good, there were some lamps in the corners of the wall. They finally reach a place with more light, now a long room with a counter on the left with an attendant drinking coffee, a woman with brown hair tied up in a ponytail. On the other side there were quality red armchairs, with two men in tuxedos chatting while drinking coffee. Further along there was a long corridor with some lamps hanging from the ceiling that illuminated the corridor.

Lucian observes his surroundings with curiosity, he suddenly feels himself being pulled by Ruby's arm, and they reach the lamp-lit corridor. There were four doors, two on the left and two on the right; they entered the last one on the left. It's a wooden door with small details carved into its edges.

Ruby knocks on the door and says - Mr. Trung? I have someone here who is interested in talking to you, he wants to enter the Night Breeze.

The door is opened after a few seconds of the girl's speech, and we see the figure of a man of medium build, he appeared to be between 30 and 40 years old, he had a goatee and sideburns, black hair combed back and piercing gray eyes. He wore a black tuxedo with the buttons closed, a black tie and a white shirt underneath, black pants and brown shoes, he carried a half top hat in his hands.

This man had an imposing feel in front of Lucian, Ruby even looked more comfortable next to this man.

The man looks at Ruby and shakes his head, then turns to Lucian, he smiles slightly - Come in - he makes way for Lucian to enter the room.

Lucian enters the room and the man closes the door behind him. The room is very simple, but beautiful, with wooden floors and stone walls, a coat rack next to the door on which hung a gray tuxedo and a black bow tie. There were two brown leather armchairs and a desk with some paperwork and a fountain pen, and behind it a chair with delicate and beautiful carved details.

The man sits in this chair in front of the desk and takes an upright, confident position. He coughs once to get Lucian's attention, and then says - Hello, nice to meet you, my name is Trung, I'm the Captain of the Night Breeze organization, I'm happy to have another person join our organization.

Lucian smiles slightly and says - Nice to meet you Mr. Trung, my name is Lucian Berfort, it's my pleasure... I really want to join you... my friends died, and I need to find out what could have happened for this to happen - Lucian says this, but internally he knows well that his main motive is actually to try to find out about the artifact and find a way to return to the normal world.

Trung sighs and strokes his goatee, then says serenely - So... Mr. Berfort, welcome to the special organization Night Breeze, it will be a pleasure to work alongside you, Lucian Berfort.

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