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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

— Charles Dickens
on A Tale of Two Cities
Cited in Volume 2: Faceless[Note 1]

Faceless is the second volume of the Lord of Mysteries series written by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving. It details the story of Klein Moretti as arrives in Backlund, the capital of Loen Kingdom. He adopts a new identity as Sherlock Moriarty, and then becomes involved in the various plots there.

Title Meaning[]

The title Faceless refers not just to Klein's promotion to sequence 6 Faceless, but also to the faceless people who lived and died on East Backlund as some of the backbone members of society. Although their stories were rarely known, their contributions were invaluable. The spotlight on Old Kohler and Liz's family was the author's attempt at portraying just some of the stories of these faceless people.

Finally, the title also refers to Klein's changing identity, how he is not really Sherlock Moriarty, nor Klein Moretti, but Zhou Mingrui. He has a different mask for every situation, so in the end, his face does not capture his true self.

Synopsis[]

In Backlund, Klein took the identity of Sherlock Moriarty, a private detective. Because of Ian Wright’s commission, he was involved in a conspiracy conflict with the Intis intelligence and MI9. Klein hired Sharron for three-days as a bodyguard. He killed Rosago with the help of Sharron and obtained the potion formulas from sequence 7 to 5 of the Fool Pathway.

After discovering the conspiracy of the descent of the True Creator through Lanevus, Klein let Miss Justice inform the Church of the Evernight Goddess. While Lanevus successfully fled into the sewer. Klein successfully achieved part 1 of his revenge plan by killing Lanevus.

Klein advanced to Sequence 7 Magician not long after that he successfully steals the Black Emperor one of the Card of Blasphemy, in Roselle Memorial Exhibition.

Klein killed Capim, the human trafficker and gained the name The Hero Black Bandit and with other grand performances. He successfully digested the Magician potion before advancing to sequence 6 Faceless. However, this alerted the authorities to the presence of some mysterious Tarot organisation because he let tarot cards on the scene again.

Then, he got involved in another plot of Ince Zangwill. He let Miss Justice inform the Church of the Evernight Goddess about the presence of Trissy Cheek. Klein interrupted the True Creator’s attempted descent ritual and barely managed to escape from Mr. A through some fortuitous luck and the help of "0-17" Angel of Concealment. Meanwhile, the Lady Despair spread plagues smog hovered over the Backlund, over 21,000 people in East Borough died. Klein suspected this Great Smog is a big plot corporate with the royal family and military faction for unknown reasons.

In the new year, Klein changed his identity once again and went to the Sonia Sea to find traces of mermaids in order to advance to Sequence 5 Marionettist.

List of Chapters[]

Chapter
#
Chapter Name Webnovel
#
1 Land of Hope 214
2 Mrs. Sammer 215
3 The Same-old Gathering 216
4 Mr. Door's Description 217
5 Free General Knowledge 218
6 Explanation 219
7 Klein's Sacrificial Trial 220
8 The Tarot Club at a Higher Level 221
9 The First Job 222
10 Three Matters 223
11 Mystic-type Detective 224
12 Unnoticeable Guidance 225
13 The Terrified Xio 226
14 Inventor Leppard 227
15 The Mastermind 228
16 Lesser of Two Evils 229
17 Interrogation 230
18 Losses 231
19 The Bravehearts Bar 232
20 A Man Cannot Be Judged By His Looks 233
21 The Night of the Full Moon. 234
22 The Busy Monday 235
23 Internal Commission 236
24 Sequence 2 237
25 Dragon of Imagination 238
26 Each Having Their Own 'Gathering' 239
27 Trying Your Luck? 240
28 Language of Foulness 241
29 Bakerland 242
30 Catching the Adulterous Act 243
31 Appointee 244
32 Confirmation 245
33 Strange Omen 246
34 The Whole Story 247
35 Waiting From Both Sides 248
36 The Assassination 249
37 Rich Experience in Courting Death 250
38 Gains 251
39 Epilogue 252
40 Night Thoughts 253
41 Various Parties 254
42 Photography Expert 255
43 Meeting the Apothecary Again 256
44 2-081 257
45 Murder Case 258
46 Underground Structure 259
47 Strange Statues 260
48 The Innermost Room 261
49 Dream 262
50 Spiritual Perception and Attempt 263
51 A Five-Person Gathering 264
52 Cards of Blasphemy 265
53 The World's Commission 266
54 Singing to the Same Tune 267
55 The Cemetery and the Hospital 268
56 Clues to the Psychology Alchemists 269
57 Reporter 270
58 Golden Rose 271
59 Observing Each Other 272
60 Handing Out A Formula 273
61 Beyonder Weapon 274
62 Pound Family 275
63 Rafter Pound 276
64 Finalizing a Plan 277
65 Free? 278
66 Extreme Joy Begets Sorrow 279
67 The First Step 280
68 Clue 281
69 This is East Borough 282
70 Dock Union 283
71 Instinctive Trembling 284
72 Midnight Clock Tower 285
73 A Taunting Smile 286
74 Death Battle 287
75 A Scene Filled with Symbolism 288
76 Conjecture and Investigation 289
77 Effecting Change Indirectly 290
78 Seller and Notary In One 291
79 Exchanging News 292
80 Derrick's Worry 293
81 Admiral of Stars 294
82 All Ingredients Gathered 295
83 Magician 296
84 The Full Moon's Ravings 297
85 Another Case 298
86 Snapping Fingers 299
87 Spirit Dance 300
88 Awakening 301
89 A Clue 302
90 Rookie 303
91 Feathers 304
92 The Detective Exchange 305
93 Giant Bishop 306
94 Dawn Paladin 307
95 A Prepared Magician 308
96 Choosing One Out Of Two 309
97 National Atmospheric Pollution Council 310
98 Observing Each Other 311
99 A Failed Disguise 312
100 The Ancient Deities 313
101 Possible 314
102 Return to Harvest Church 315
103 Never Perform Unprepared 316
104 Roselle Memorial Exhibition 317
105 Verification 318
106 Audrey's 'Adventure' 319
107 Action 320
108 Appearance of A Living Person 321
109 The Thrilling Night 322
110 The Opening Incantation 323
111 Imagined and Real 'Adorer' 324
112 The Equestrian Teacher's Problem 325
113 Professional Suggestion 326
114 Encounter on the Road 327
115 He That Touches Pitch Shall Be Defiled 328
116 Claw Marks 329
117 Sharron and Maric's Philosophy 330
118 The Accursed 331
119 Notary Certificate 332
120 The Tracker 333
121 Bullets 334
122 Exploring Verdi Street 335
123 The Abraham Family 336
124 The Search For A Missing Person 337
125 The Experienced Klein 338
126 Psychiatrist 339
127 Past 340
128 Private Communication 341
129 The Old Fox Alger 342
130 By Oneself 343
131 Spending Lavishly 344
132 Sun Brooch 345
133 A Magician Before Going Onstage 346
134 Zombie and Werewolf 347
135 Terrifying Wraith 348
136 Poison Bottle 349
137 Splendid Fireworks 350
138 Game of Question and Answer 351
139 Breakfast 352
140 Today Is Quite Different From Yesterday 353
141 Tales of an 'Adventure' in East Borough 354
142 Outsider 355
143 Informant Fee 356
144 Happenings at the Banquet 357
145 The Sun's Worry 358
146 The Blasphemer 359
147 A Difficult Conundrum 360
148 Translucent Worm 361
149 The Secret Deed Ritual 362
150 High-level Authority 363
151 Cathedral of Serenity 364
152 Vampire With A Unique Hobby 365
153 The Hanged Man's Ambition 366
154 Threatening Letter 367
155 Taking Him By Surprise 368
156 Inception 369
157 The Audience's Applause 370
158 Detective Moriarty's First Fan 371
159 Missing Case 372
160 Search 373
161 Artificial Sleepwalking 374
162 An 'Evil God's' Impressive Act 375
163 Mr. Harras 376
164 Capim's Dinner 377
165 The Show Begins 378
166 Magic's Key Segment 379
167 Curtain Call 380
168 Conjectures 381
169 Hero Bandit 382
170 Returning Home 383
171 On Your Own You Check Yourself 384
172 A Story About Love 385
173 A Nightmare 386
174 The Uniqueness of a Spirit World 387
175 Exploring the Dreamland 388
176 Nighthawk 389
177 Anticipation! 390
178 The Great Seafarer Roselle 391
179 Listening to Little Sun's Story 392
180 The Worm of Time 393
181 Sights in the Spirit World 394
182 The Sheriff Beyonder Characteristics 395
183 Great White Brotherhood 396
184 Apocalyptic Prophecy 397
185 Alluring Mushrooms 398
186 The Corrupted 399
187 The Growth of the 'Rookie' 400
188 Divine Epiphany 401
189 Digging 402
190 The Fate of a Private Detective 403
191 Entrust 404
192 Cult 405
193 A Joyous But Extremely Helpless Reality 406
194 The True Adorer 407
195 A Bold Assumption 408
196 December 409
197 Framis Cage 410
198 Coming In Throngs 411
199 Letter 412
200 Visitors 413
201 Desire Apostle 414
202 The Ring 415
203 Two Rights Make A Wrong 416
204 Arrodes 417
205 The Power of the Mind 418
206 Wishing 419
207 Devil Family 420
208 Expensive Materials 421
209 The True Jason 422
210 Winds Arise 423
211 The Problem of Change 424
212 Under the Roses 425
213 1-42 426
214 The Choice of The Times 427
215 The Scapegoat 428
216 Various Parties 429
217 A Brand New Day 430
218 A Drowning Man Shouldn’t Desperately Clutch at Straws 431
219 Contracted Creatures 432
220 Intelligence Peddler 433
221 Tomb and Bounty 434
222 Aggregation Effect 435
223 Klein's Request 436
224 Obituary 437
225 Invitation 438
226 The Generous Prince 439
227 Angel Family 440
228 Channels Increase 441
229 Exploration Mission 442
230 A One-man Performance 443
231 Confession 444
232 Live Broadcast 445
233 Machinery Hivemind's Combat Style 446
234 Portrait 447
235 Amon's Possible Origins 448
236 Better Choice 449
237 Distribution of Money 450
238 Faceless 451
239 Benson's Decision 452
240 Stairs 453
241 Who Am I? 454
242 Help Seeker 455
243 Playing Ghosts 456
244 Information Provided by the Evil Spirit 457
245 An Ancient Sanguine 458
246 Letting A Chance Slip 459
247 Cyclic Explorations 460
248 The Kind and Enthusiastic Hanged Man 461
249 What is a Miracle? 462
250 Answering His Own Questions 463
251 Consultation 464
252 Emlyn's Determination 465
253 Tail-devourer 466
254 The Delayed Response 467
255 The Moon 468
256 Vampire Queen 469
257 Name 470
258 Klein's Preparations 471
259 Latent Danger 472
260 Faceless 473
261 Edessak's Story 474
262 Lady Despair 475
263 The Straw Men 476
264 The Many Considerations of The Fool 477
265 Grade 0 Sealed Artifact in Operation 478
266 The Inexplicable Smile 479
267 Rewards for Honesty 480
268 Statistics and People 481
269 Ring out the Old, Ring in the New 482


Timeline of Major Events[1][]

— September 1349 ~ January 1350

Date Chapter Event
Sunday, September 16, 1349 214-216
  • Klein arrived at Backlund and met Ian Wright on the metro.
  • Klein rented Unit 15 Minsk Street under the pseudonym: Sherlock Moriarty the private detective.
Monday, September 17, 1349 216-221
Thursday, September 20, 1349 221-223
  • Ian Wright entrusted Klein a commission to look for Detective Zreal.
Friday, September 21, 1349 223-226
  • Klein found detective Zreal's corpse.
  • Fors and Xio borrowed Viscount Glaint's book.
  • Xio mindlessly recited The Fool's honorable title. At night, she dreams of the mysterious gray fog.
Saturday, September 22, 1349 227-232
  • Meursault visited Klein to look for Ian, Klein refused.
  • Klein invested on the bicycle.
  • In the evening Meursault attacked and got killed by Klein.
  • Xio purchased the Sheriff potion formula and find someone to purify her soul. A member of MI9 asked her to becomes his informant.
Sunday, September 23, 1349 232-234
  • Klein went to the Bravehearts Bar to buy a gun.
  • Maric rejected Klein's employment.
Monday, September 24, 1349 234-241
  • Tarot Club 13th meeting.
  • Klein went to Old Mister Eye of Wisdom's Gathering. He sold Meursault's Beyonder characteristic and bought the black ear of the Listener.
  • After divining its origin, the black ear suddenly crumbled, and turned into a charm. Klein named it Language of Foulness.
Wednesday, September 26, 1349 243-245
  • Audrey entrusted Fors and Xio to find someone to assassinate Intis ambassador Bakerland.
  • Mr. A accepted the mission from Fors and Xio.
  • Maric introduced Sharron as a bodyguard to Klein.
Thursday, September 27, 1349 245-253
  • Klein paid 1,000 pounds to hire Sharron as a three-day bodyguard.
  • Ian visited Klein and told the whole story.
  • Bakerland assassinated by Mr. A.
  • Klein and Sharron killed Rosago. Klein obtained the potion formula of Sequence 7, 6, and 5 of the Fool Pathway.
Saturday, September 29, 1349 258-263
  • Millet Carter commissioned Klein to explore the underground structure on Williams Street.
  • Klein and Sharron explored the underground structure on Williams Street.
Monday, October 1, 1349 264-269
  • Tarot Club 14th meeting.
Tuesday, October 2, 1349 269-272
  • Audrey entrusted Xio to find Lanevus's whereabout.
  • Mike Joseph entrusted Klein to protect him for investigation in East Borough.
Saturday, October 6, 1349 278-282
  • Klein and Sharron blew up the underground structure.
  • Audrey reported the clue about Lanevus to Klein.
Sunday, October 7, 1349 282-285
  • In East Borough, Klein met Old Kohler and invited him to have lunch.
  • Xio saw Lanevus at the dock union.
  • Klein disguised as a reporter enter the dock union to confirm the whereabouts of Lanevus.
Monday, October 8, 1349 285-294
Wednesday, October 10, 1349 295-298
  • Klein promoted to the Magician.
  • Blood Moon, Fors prayed to the Fool.
  • Fors joined the Tarot Club.
Saturday, October 13, 1349 304-309
Monday, October 15, 1349 310-316
  • Tarot Club 16th meeting.
Tuesday, October 16, 1349 316-322
Monday, October 22, 1349 340-343
  • Tarot Club 17th meeting.
Thursday, October 25, 1349 345-351
Friday, October 26, 1349 351-355
  • Ikanser Bernard used the Sealed Artifact 2-111 to investigate Klein's fight the previous night.
  • Derrick faked losing control and was put in the spire. He met Uddel, a former team captain who was imprisoned in the tower for 42 years. He mentioned Amon to Derrick.
Monday, October 29, 1349 357-366
  • Tarot Club 18th meeting.
  • The parasited Uddel lost control and was killed by Colin Iliad.
  • Derrick prayed to the Fool. Klein discovered and resolved Amon's parasite.
  • Leonard promoted to the Nightmare.
  • Klein found Emlyn's White family home at Unit 48 Riverbay Avenue.
  • Alger fully digested the Seafarer potion.
Tuesday, October 30, 1349 367-370
  • Klein prepared a Desi pie breakfast when he helped Ma’am Mary brought by Mrs. Stelyn to clear up a threatening letter caused by politics of the National Atmospheric Pollution Council.
  • Klein divined the origin of the Biological Poison Bottle, a mystical item byproduct of a Mother Pathway Rampager's fatal failed experiment.
  • Audrey received psychology lessons from Escalante.
  • In the evening, to fulfill the White family's missing person's request given by Detective Stuart, Klein went to the Harvest Church and obtained permission for Emlyn White's freedom.
  • Klein learned about Emlyn's habit to do volunteer work at the Harvest Church, which started today. He also learned about Emlyn's family's expertise in potions.
Wednesday, October 31, 1349 370-372
  • Klein began studying the Book of Secrets.
  • Klein better understood the "performance" and "audience" of the Acting Method.
  • Klein had a small lunch meet with Detective Stuart.
  • Emlyn visited Klein at 15 Minsk Street in his brown clerical robes.
  • Klein had Emlyn use mystical medicine to heal Mrs. Doris, the mother of Jurgen Cooper.
Thursday, November 1, 1349 372-382
  • Klein investigated the disappearance of Daisy and found Capim's villa.
Saturday, November 3, 1349 386-389
Monday, November 5, 1349 390-401
  • Tarot Club 19th meeting.
  • Derrick borrowed the All-Black Eye from Mr. World and encountered Darc, one of the exploration team members who entered the True Creator's temple.
  • Mr. A learned about The Fool though Elder Lovia.
Tuesday, November 6, 1349 402-406
  • Klein and Aaron found Will Auceptin's corpse in the Grimm Cemetery.
  • Leonard officially became a Red Gloves of Soest's squad.
  • Fors met Lawrence again at the Grimm Cemetery. Lawrence asked Fors to help him send the Leymano's Travels and his Beyonder Characteristic to Dorian Gray at Pritz Harbor after his death.
  • Mr. A announced the bounty for the Fool’s believers at the Beyonder gathering.
Wednesday, December 15, 1349 409-419
Thursday, December 16, 1349 419-430
  • Klein, Isengard, Kaslana, and Ikanser searched the home of suspect Patrick Jason.
  • Jason Beria assassinated Pallas Negan after successfully conspired to lead Ace Snake away from the Holy Wind Cathedral.
  • Leonard wore the Sealed Artifact 1-42 and chased after Jason Beria to the sewers. But he found that Jason was already killed by the Hero Bandit Black Emperor.
  • Klein fully digested the Magician potion.
Friday, December 17, 1349 430-435
  • Fors fully digested the Apprentice potion.
  • Fors became the student of Dorian Gray Abraham and she had to drank a second Apprentice potion he concocted in front of him.
Saturday, December 18, 1349 435-437
Monday, December 20, 1349 438-443
  • Edessak Augustus entrusted Klein to investigate the death of Talim.
  • Tarot Club 25th meeting.
Tuesday, December 21, 1349 443-448
Thursday, December 23, 1349 450-453
  • Klein promoted to the Faceless.
  • MI9 asked Xio to pay attention to the seller of the Sheriff's characteristics.
  • Benson passed the first round of the Civil Servant Unified Examination and planned to move to Backlund with Melissa
Friday, December 24, 1349 453-459
  • Colin's exploration team arrived at the True Creator's temple and found Jack. They got trapped in a time loop.
  • An Evil Spirit at the underground structure tempted Klein and Sharron to find their blood descendants to help them out of trouble.
  • Nibbs Odora asked Emlyn to pray to The Fool.
Monday, December 27, 1349 459-467
  • Derrick noticed the time loop after entering the gray fog. Then he found a way to break the time loop.
  • Tarot Club 26th meeting.
  • Emlyn prayed to the Fool.
Tuesday, December 28, 1349 468-481
  • Emlyn joined the Tarot Club.
  • Klein finished his lease on Minsk Street, but did not return there and prepared to move out of Backlund.
  • Klein wrote to the Machinery Hivemind to describe the massive underground ruin and had to be tested.
Wednesday, December 29, 1349 N/A
  • Audrey received a main ingredient from Fors.
Thursday, December 30, 1349
  • Klein had specially gone to Sharron and obtained a new identity, Gehrman Sparrow, through her circle for 8 pounds documents.
  • Klein pinched out his Gehrman Sparrow appearance.
  • For the 10 percent stake in the bike company, Klein found an opportunity to meet with Isengard Stanton and signed a legal agreement to entrust the matter to him.
Friday, December 31, 1349 482
  • Since the Great Smog, Emlyn had been working in the Harvest Church to provide medicines for the gathered sick while assisting Utravsky.
  • Audrey was introduced into adulthood by the queen.
Saturday, January 1, 1350 N/A
  • Klein received his new identification card.
Sunday, January 2, 1350
Monday, January 3, 1350 482
  • Klein wrote an epitaph for Old Kohler while visiting the newly opened cemetery for him and Liv.
  • Benson and Melissa arrived in Backlund and coincidentally saw Gehrman Sparrow from afar.
  • As Gehrman Sparrow, Klein left Backlund and headed to Pritz Harbor.
  1. Originally summarized by 风神辂 [1]

Notes[]

  1. Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 482, the last chapter of the Volume 2.

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