nownovels Chapter 10 Plot Changes
Chapter 10 Plot Changes
After leaving the telegraph office, Evan opened his pocket watch and found that it was already 1:30 pm. He needed to make some preparations to see if he could contact Klein in advance and take the opportunity to join the Tarot Club.
The tarot session was scheduled for 3 p.m., so he had to perform the ritual beforehand.
With that in mind, Evan casually flagged down a carriage on the street and asked the driver to take him to buy some food prepared for the first ceremony after Klein's transmigration. He then asked the driver to take him to the nearest hotel.
The main reason Evan didn't go home for the ceremony was because he was afraid of worrying Mr. Buck, the butler, and that it would provoke Mr. Buck to write to Backlund again.
As he boarded the carriage, Evan glanced discreetly to the side, then feigned ignorance and casually got into the carriage.
From the moment Evan left home that morning, he knew someone was following him. He thought he was hiding well, but in Evan's eyes, he was so "obvious".
This does not mean that the tracker's skills are bad or terrible.
On the contrary, his tracking skills are very high, and he is very experienced. Even ordinary extraordinary individuals might not be able to detect his tracking.
But Evan had a cheat code; he even knew that the one tracking him was an Extraordinary being using the 'Hunter' pathway.
Ever since Evan first drank the "Assassin" potion and entered the top floor of a city that resembled 20th-century "Shanghai," his cheat abilities were unlocked.
Evan can not only use his cheat ability to pre-draw an extraordinary ability of his own path, but also take the potion of the "Hunter" path, which is adjacent to the "Assassin" path, without any hidden dangers. Furthermore, it allows extraordinary individuals of these two paths to have nothing to hide from Evan.
In Evan's eyes, they were like fireflies in the dark. As long as Evan closed his eyes and concentrated, he could sense everything within a hundred meters. In Evan's mind, they were like computer models from his previous life, which he could perceive from 360 degrees, except that they were all gray.
Those extraordinary individuals who follow the 'Assassin' and 'Hunter' pathways are surrounded by a black or red aura, making them exceptionally dazzling. At the same time, they also instill a 'hunger' instinct in Evan, making him involuntarily have the urge to 'hunt' them.
Evan didn't know the limits of this detection effect, but he knew that at least Lady Sharon, as a Sequence 6 'Pleasure Witch', couldn't hide from his detection.
As a member of a powerful secret organization and a cunning witch, Mrs. Sharon was extremely cautious in recruiting peripheral members. She had secretly followed and spied on Evan more than once, but each time she was discovered by Evan without exception.
Therefore, Evan is a perfect, trustworthy, and completely controlled development target in her eyes because she is actually unilaterally transparent to Evan.
When Evan left home in the morning, he already knew that he was being followed by a "hunter". He could easily tell that this must be Heinz Vancent's companion.
When Heinz Vancent was tempting the original body to take the bait, he revealed to the original body that he could help Evan prepare a Sequence 9 potion, which naturally made the original body ecstatic.
However, although he strongly recommended the "Mystic" potion to the original owner, which would help her learn more about mysticism, the young and impetuous original owner valued the "Hunter" potion, which showed great power, more. This was because the original owner wanted to follow in her brother's footsteps and join the army, but her brother had stopped her from applying to military academy back then.
Hynarson Vancent was just a small member of the Aurora Society. After successfully recruiting Evan, he did not know the recipe for the Hunter's Potion and would inevitably report it to his superiors.
Evan, being such a promising prospect, has attracted the attention of the "Witch Cult," and will inevitably attract the attention of the Aurora Society as well. Perhaps "Mr. Z" has already arrived in Tingen City from Enmat Port.
The Aurora Society has survived for so many years despite being besieged by so many orthodox churches, so it's no wonder they're not lacking in intelligence; after all, they're just 'crazy' rather than 'idiotic'.
Therefore, after Heinz Vancent sent a letter to Evan, it was inevitable that they would send people to monitor Evan's movements. They had not yet formally recruited Evan, so they could not guarantee his loyalty. Who knew if Evan would betray them?
But this caused trouble for Evan, and it was trouble that Evan brought upon himself.
In the morning, Evan was distressed that he might not be able to escape the script of Adam or 008, so he thought of smashing the chessboard, reporting the Aurora Society, and destroying 008's entire plan.
Since the offspring of the true Creator cannot descend, 008 can no longer write scripts.
So Evan ignored the "hunter" follower and entered the Church of St. Serena right in front of him.
However, the important information he received from Dunn gave Evan hope of leaving Tingen, which ultimately led him to abandon his plan to report the matter.
The "hunter" who has been following him is a problem and must be dealt with as soon as possible to prevent him from sending back the news that he entered the Church of St. Serena.
There's no rush right now. This isn't the modern world Irwin lived in before, where everyone has a cell phone. Irwin has been wandering around all day, so he could only follow along and had no time to send out the message.
Not to mention that the area where Evan was active today was far from the Halls neighborhood where Hynarson Vancent lived.
So Evan isn't in a hurry to get rid of the stalker yet; he needs to think carefully about what to do.
After the driver took him to the nearest hotel, Evan booked a room for two hours. This made the receptionist glance at Evan again, and one of the male receptionists even made an ambiguous introduction that they had a massage therapist on the second floor.
Evan politely declined without offering any further explanation, simply instructing the waiter not to disturb him.
After being led to a luxury suite by a waiter, Evan casually tipped the waiter 10 soules.
This was specially prepared by Evan before he left home. Using gold pounds as a reward was too eye-catching, which was also because Evan had only been in the world for a short time and did not have a direct experience of it.
Even so, the waiter thanked Evan profusely and left bowing and scraping. You have to understand that he might not even earn that much money in a week with his salary and tips. This money was a pleasant surprise for him.
After entering the room, Evan took off his trench coat and vest, and then, following the instructions in the book "Lord of Mysteries" that had appeared in his mind, he arranged the various foods according to Klein's first preparation.
Evan stood up, looked everything over again, considered for a moment, and then took four candles from the candlesticks on the hotel table and placed them in the center of each of the food dishes.
Evan can't imitate Klein too closely, as it might arouse Klein's suspicion. After all, Klein's personality is sometimes a bit too cautious. If things go slightly wrong, he will back down and will never take any risks unless absolutely necessary, but when necessary, he can be incredibly reckless.
After arranging everything, Evan glanced at his pocket watch and found it was only 2:15. There was no rush, so he found a chair to rest for a while. At the same time, he reviewed the materialized version of "Lord of Mysteries" in his mind, revisiting it to learn from the past and see if he had overlooked anything.
Evan was very familiar with the entire contents of "Lord of Mysteries," so he read it quickly. However, when Evan turned to the chapter where Klein drank the "Diviner" potion and became a true extraordinary being, Evan was shocked and stood up from his chair, spitting out the coffee he was drinking, his eyes filled with horror.
Evan remembers this passage very clearly: after Klein became a "diviner," he spent the whole morning learning from Old Neil how to use "spiritual awareness," which made him very tired. After leaving the underground, Captain Dunn gave him some advice, so he went home to sleep and rest. He didn't wake up until after midnight, and then the second Tarot meeting was held.
Previously, when Evan flipped through the book "Lord of Mysteries" in his mind, he saw the same content.
But now the contents have changed. Just as Klein was about to leave, an accident occurred at the church ahead. Klein, despite his exhaustion, forced himself to help. In the end, it turned out to be a false alarm, but Klein was even more tired due to the high level of tension. After returning home, he slept until 2 a.m.
The content of Lord of Mysteries has changed, and when it mentions what happened at the church, it doesn't describe Evan's situation in detail at all, only referring to him as a "mystic enthusiast," and the whole event is written in a rather hasty and concise manner.
If Evan hadn't been a party to this incident, he might have genuinely thought it was a simple, ordinary event.
After calming down, Evan thought about it and realized that the changes in "Lord of Mysteries" were actually quite reasonable. After all, he was a character who had never appeared in the original work, and he had directly interacted with the protagonists and supporting characters in the first volume, which affected Klein. According to the butterfly theory, this naturally created a ripple effect.
I never expected that this mysterious book, "Lord of Mysteries," would have such a close connection with reality; it's practically changing in real time.
Suddenly, Evan thought of something and controlled the pages of "Lord of Mysteries" in his mind to turn directly to the last chapter of the first volume about the 008 script. He read it sentence by sentence and found that there were indeed some changes.
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"Because of Heiner Vancent's mistake, Antigonus's Notebook was read by Evan Horn during a visit, resulting in its unfortunate contamination. However, no one noticed, which is a minor matter and will not affect Ince Zangwell's plans."
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"It is puzzling and lacks sufficient reason that Klein Moretti did not commit suicide and survived, as did Evan Horn. However, no one noticed his connection to the Antigonus Notebook from beginning to end, so no relevant extraordinary person noticed that his supposedly successful suicide attempt had failed."
"Klein met Dunn Smith through Welch's case and joined the Night Watch team, while Evan Horn, who harbored a secret, was also investigated because of his relationship with Welch's classmate."
"Although this exceeds Ince Zangwell's description, it doesn't seem to affect the development of the story."
"But how could the cautious Ince Zangwell allow his plan to have any loopholes that weren't detected?"
"Because he was worried that his young master might commit suicide again, butler Buck, who hadn't been able to send the letter due to an accident, suggested contacting Backlund by telegram."
"Evan Horn was eager to go to Backlund, so he agreed to this exceptionally expensive offer."
"Oh! Poor Ince Zangwell, he's so unfortunate. It seems the Backlund telegraph office was evacuated due to the Aurora Society's terrorist attack, which means the telegrams Butler Buck sent to Backlund weren't received. Evan Horn is still not out of Tingen, which Ince Zangwell finds unbearable..."
The script for 008 in Lord of Mysteries has been significantly altered.
Suddenly, in Evan's eyes, the words on the gray "Lord of Mysteries" began to distort and change.