English Dub Review: Lord of Mysteries “Bomb”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

While still disturbed by seeing a colleague drink a dead ally’s blood, Klein is thrust into another case where a villain has sent a pregnant woman with an evil god in her womb.

OUR TAKE


We’re at the second to last episode of Lord of Mysteries, following up from the bloody events of last week where Klein saw Dunn feeding on Kenley. His first thought about this is understandable, that Dunn may be losing control of his Beyonder abilities, but as we learn later, this simply part of his stipulations for his exact Beyonder sequence. Oh okay, I guess that makes sense and is ethical, as long as he’s only feeding on dead people. And he keeps the memories of those he feeds on, so…at least they’re preserved in some way? Well, I’m glad that got explained, because now we have to move on to the oncoming threat for this episode and likely the finale: another mad cultist named Lanevus is planning to set off a huge bomb in Tingen, and in the most disturbing way possible: having a girl he manipulated hold an evil god in her womb that will slowly consume her sanity and eventually cause mass havoc and destruction. And this isn’t just ANY evil god, but that of the True Creator, that weird looking upside down creature that we saw in the minds of some other cultists early on in the season. That definitely seemed like the most recurring of these deities, so it makes sense that it would be the more present threat at the end of the season.

Still, this has got to be the most messed up method of doing this I’ve ever seen! So, it’s no surprise that the Nighthawks feel the need to pull out all the stops against it before this “baby” comes to term, including pulling out a sacred artifact called The Saint’s Ashes, which is apparently responsible for holding up a rather important barrier within Tingen, so to have to use this against a single localized threat is a sign that shit has gotten very real. As threatening as the opponents Klein and the Nighthawks have faced in the past dozen episodes have been, fighting a nearly manifested incarnation of an evil god is most certainly at the top of the threat level, and so an appropriate way to close out the season next week. For all of the crazy lore and jargon being tossed around every which way, I can at least understand the idea of “big monster god from hell is a big problem that has to be defeated”, so let’s see how they wrap this whole thing up!