Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Gloria was on a business trip when she received the news that Geraldine was missing.

What a great time.

The matter that could make a Sequence 3 Bishop travel far away was equally important. Gloria first contacted Backlund's Red Gloves to investigate.

Soon the technical team and the extraordinary investigation team gave the first batch of information. The city surveillance showed that Geraldine had visited two high-end custom clothing design studios today and was last seen near the Brilliant Holiday Hotel.

In order to build momentum for the luxury hotel that opened last month, the Ishdar Group will hold a fashion show here recently. This may be the reason why fashion reporter Geraldine appeared here.

Geraldine then disappeared from surveillance.

Compared to the Steam Church's unscrupulous hacking skills, the monitoring data that the Night Church can extract in a short period of time is relatively limited, and the extraction of other monitoring data takes time.

The preliminary location divination and ritual magic were strongly interfered with and no clear results were obtained. Several dream investigation teams have set out to search for clues in the dreams of passers-by at the place where Geraldine was last seen. All this work takes time.

An ordinary person in society suddenly disappeared while being tracked down by extraordinary forces and ordinary technology.

If Geraldine was in a coma, hypnosis, anesthesia, etc., Gloria would know her condition immediately.

The [Dream Maze] used to suppress the pollution at that time was built by Gloria herself, and her spiritual imprint was left in it. As long as Geraldine entered the dream, Gloria could sense it and communicate with Geraldine in the dream.

Now there is no movement in the dream maze, which means that Geraldine is still in a conscious state.

Because she was far away from Backlund, Geraldine was beyond the current range of Gloria's ability to pull people into dreams and invade dreams, which made her unable to do anything.

After quickly completing the mission, Gloria decided to immediately set off back to Backlund. Geraldine was a surveillance target under her direct jurisdiction, and she had many things that the church cared about, so she could not take this loss of contact lightly.

Just as Gloria was about to leave, an irresistible and powerful dream captured her. In the blink of an eye, Gloria came to an endless field of moon flowers. Under the starry sky, a lady wearing a simple linen robe and a twisted bark belt walked towards her.

This is Ms. Arianna!

As soon as she saw the lady, Gloria felt a peaceful and calm force soothing her doubts and tensions. The slight anxiety caused by the sudden incident also dissipated, and she returned to her usual peaceful and calm state.

"Good evening, Ms. Arianna." Gloria stepped forward and saluted.

"May the goddess bless you, Bishop Gloria."

After Arianna's brief response, a simple piece of paper appeared in her hand.

"This is the message that the Church of Steam just delivered. Read it here and do not save any copies in reality."

...Ishdar...Quiet Starlight Hospital...Flesh Factory...The Cult of the Sky...

The Church of Steam has just closed down a black factory that sells human organs and limbs!

This black factory is located within the jurisdiction of the Church of Steam, so it is understandable that they took action. However, the owner of this factory is Massimo Ishdar, a believer of the Goddess of Night and a Feynapotter. He came to Loen to do business under the guise of a pilgrim.

But it turns out that Feynaport's approach doesn't work in Backlund. Ishdar is too ambitious and his greed is too ugly. As an outside capital, he wants to compete with the local forces in Backlund, but he doesn't want to follow Loen's rules. In recent years, some old forces have been dissatisfied.

Under the banner of doing business, they are dreaming of dominating the market.

Gloria didn't like their showmanship of coming to St. Julie's Church to worship and donate. The Church of the Night had its own industry, and St. Julie's Church never accepted any donations. Gloria was indifferent to Massimo's drama, but it still made some people feel that Ishdar was very close to the Church of the Night.

Is this a war of public opinion?

The message was very brief, and it seemed that the Steam Church did not send the entire file.

It seems that some forces have reached the point where they can no longer tolerate Ishdar.

"...Will the Church of Steam be the first to strike Ishdar?" Gloria asked, "Then how should we respond?"

"If there is a force that attacks Ishdar, we should not get involved. But we need to investigate the matter of collusion with the cult. At the same time, the current friendly cooperation relationship with other churches must also be maintained."

Arianna replied.

"We will handle other similar economic and political disputes in the future with similar principles. You are the leader of Backlund's Red Gloves, and the specific matters are up to you."

Gloria understood. Since they were indifferent from the beginning, they would remain indifferent to the end. Unless they crossed the red line of colluding with the cult, don't blame us for being rude.

"Praise the goddess."

She devoutly tapped her chest four times clockwise, and suddenly thought of something.

"Ma'am, could you give me a ride?"

******

"Garold Ishdar is looking for me?"

Leonard and Klein were going back to the police station to look for more clues about Geraldine's disappearance. Unexpectedly, as soon as Leonard returned to the police station, his team members told him about Jarod.

"Garold Ishdar?" Klein recalled, "Is he the little hostage in the kidnapping case that you and Geraldine handled?"

"Yes." Leonard had a blank expression on his face. He was actually confused. "Why did he come to see me?"

"Maybe it's because his brother has lost contact." A team member replied, "He may want you to take over the case."

"What! Massimo Ishtar is missing?"

This pair of brothers are really like family. In less than a month, the two brothers disappeared one after another.

Klein not only sighed

No wonder the atmosphere at Siveras was so tense today.

"It's such an important case, everyone else has gone out to investigate, why are you still sitting here?" Leonard asked, "Why didn't anyone notify me?"

After all, I was the one who handled the case of his brother’s disappearance and kidnapping!

"Because the person in charge of the case is Sheriff Nicolo Hawke! He has been trying to make things difficult for you and our team, both overtly and covertly!"

The young policeman was half helpless and half angry.

"You don't know, he just climbed up the big tree of Ishdar thanks to our contribution, and now he can't wait to show off in front of Massimo!"

Wow, once Sheriff Niccolò Hawke takes action, Massimo is completely nowhere to be found.

Even if the item is recovered, it may not be the police’s credit.

Even the little brother knows that such a big thing cannot be handled by an incompetent sheriff, so he had to ask our cold-blooded detective for help.

There is no such explosive news on the terminal yet. It seems that this matter is still under news blockade.

"Things are getting a little strange." Leonard frowned and took Klein into the office. "Do a divination to see if Geraldine has anything to do with Massimo's disappearance."

"...Yes, there is a great connection between the two missing cases."

After a quick divination, Klein replied.

"But the divination regarding Massimo's exact location has been disrupted."

When he was fortune-telling about the Black Factory in the apartment just now, Klein also divined Geraldine's location, but he could only get some intermittent fragments. She was in the trunk of the car, in the truck, and hidden in the cabinet. She seemed to be moving all the time, and his exact location could not be determined.

The constant movement, coupled with the interference of some high-level divinations, made things a little tricky.

This time I went back to the police station, I wanted to use the police system to conduct data analysis on some of the divination images. With the assistance of modern technology, a lot of fragmentary images can obtain a lot of information.

“Perhaps we can get some clues by going back to the apartment and doing divination,” Klein suggested.

"No, no need."

Leonard suddenly took out the terminal and turned it over to show Klein.

"We found Geraldine."

Klein took the terminal, and inside was a photo of Geraldine tied up. She was blindfolded, her hands and feet tied, and thrown on a hotel bed. The pillow on the bed was embroidered with the logo of the Splendid Holiday Inn.

“I’m a little curious, how do you feel at this moment?

"——David Axus."

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This chapter is finally back, please give me more comments~

I also ask everyone to read more! This book is really unpopular and has too few readers... I'm afraid it's the worst book among all the best friend fan fictions out there, hahahahahaha

Come on! I must at least hold on until it’s available on the shelves…