Mysteries: Arcana Wars

A wonderful trip.

It sounds like it makes sense, but it's confusing when you think about it carefully.

What is considered "wonderful"? Is it an exploration of an uninhabited area, or an adventure of escaping death? Is it a gorgeous and dreamy performance, or a comfortable and relaxing vacation?

Klein didn't even know whether this was a literal journey or an abstract "journey" in some other derivative sense.

This is an extremely subjective and ambiguous word that can be interpreted in many ways. My thoughts, which I thought were clear, became confusing again.

"At least, we know that the key word here is 'journey'."

"Then have you obtained Fors's information?"

"it's here."

Leonard tapped the keyboard and pulled up Fors's file.

"Fors Wall, a native of Backlund, was adopted and raised by a poet. He graduated from the Department of Literature and has been contributing his poetry writing to earn royalties since college. His adoptive father, the poet, passed away while he was in college. Fors used the royalties from his poetry to finish the rest of his college education and then became a professional writer."

Compared with Audrey's eventful life, Fors's life trajectory seemed monotonous and boring.

…Too ordinary, like a grain of sand scattered in the vast sea of ​​people, living an ordinary life like most people coming and going, with absolutely nothing worth noting…

This also made it difficult for the two to start.

"Do you want to take Fors to the underground city?" Leonard suggested. "I'm going to the underground city in the next two days. I'm going to the underground city to find the Tesla family."

"...For Fors now, it's hard to go deep into the dark side of society all of a sudden. I think with the two of us there, there will be no problem with safety. But... isn't this a little too exciting?" Klein raised his head and asked, "Also, are you guys at Sivellaus finally going to clean up the dungeon?"

"No, it's just Gloria's mission." Leonard spread his hands.

"That means the Church of Evernight is going to attack the dungeon."

"It is definitely impossible to directly reshuffle the dungeon, but most likely they want to stir up some trouble in the dungeon to muddy the waters and obtain a large amount of intelligence from various parties. In short, this will increase the church's influence and control over the dungeon."

During the long period of more than 1,300 years, Leonard almost watched the chaotic dungeon being built bit by bit, and witnessed the various changes in the Church of Evernight's policies on the dungeon. He knew the Church of Evernight's attitude in this regard very well.

Of course, except for the more than three hundred years of dormancy after the Sky Curtain War.

"In fact, the Church of Night has always had a certain foundation in the dungeon, and has laid a lot of hidden lines. Since there is only night and no sun, the Church of Night has a considerable faith foundation in the dungeon.

"So I think that the Church of Evernight's move this time to strengthen its control may just be a cover. In other words, the Church of Evernight is preparing for some big moves, and tightening the net in the dungeon is just paving the way for this big move."

"The Tesla family... is that the Tesla Group?" Klein recalled his knowledge of the Sixth Epoch. "The Church of Evernight is also interested in cutting-edge technology?"

"In this era, any extraordinary organization that dares to underestimate ordinary technology is courting death. Below the level of demigods, extraordinary people can be very vulnerable to absolutely powerful ordinary thermal weapons." Leonard emphasized, "Before the Sky War, the Steam Church came to a conclusion: below the angels, no extraordinary person can survive a blanket attack by supersonic missiles with a radius of ten kilometers and a duration of ten hours."

How did you, the Steam Church, come to this conclusion!

There wouldn't really be such a grand firepower coverage on a hapless demigod!

Wait, Leonard, how did you know that!

“But in fact, the Church of Night was still skeptical about the idea of ​​the Church of Steam.”

I am a little skeptical too.

"Later, the Church of Steam proposed the laser weapon hypothesis, believing that if high-energy laser weapons were realized in the future, no Beyonder below the angels would be able to escape a high-energy laser strike with a radius of ten kilometers and a duration of ten hours."

Why are you so obsessed with blanket strikes, Steam Church!

This view is indeed a bit arbitrary. The real extraordinary battle changes rapidly. The strength of ordinary weapons and extraordinary items cannot determine the final victory or defeat. The layout before and after the battle and the preparation outside the battlefield can also turn the tide.

Especially under the influence of various strange extraordinary abilities, the ordinary weapons in your hand may not necessarily be your own ordinary weapons.

But this also indirectly reminded Klein that in this day and age, the role of ordinary weapons in extraordinary battles must not be underestimated, especially in battles between demigods and below.

If there really is a laser weapon that can fire at the speed of light, for some extraordinary beings who are at the level of demigod, it would be a competition of which is faster, their spiritual intuition or the opponent's gun drawing.

"So now, are there really laser weapons that can fire at the speed of light?" Klein asked suddenly, "I don't think I've seen it in the news in the Sixth Epoch."

"Uh... I don't think I've heard of it either. Do you want to do a divination and see?"

In the strange atmosphere, Klein threw down the pendulum.

Citrine turned gently clockwise.

The two of them looked at each other with distorted expressions, then silently put away the divination tools and shifted their gazes, and everyone pretended nothing had happened.

“There’s no need to worry about it. Judging from the rotation range of the pendulum, this technology is in the hands of at least a very small number of people. It’s still in the research and development stage. It even exists now and cannot be used normally…” Klein comforted him.

"…Maybe that's the case, otherwise this kind of news and gossip would have been all over the place…"

Leonard coughed a few times.

“After the information revolution, people have always had varying degrees of enthusiasm for high-lethality weapons, especially the crazy people in the Steam Church who specialize in developing weapons.

"Even our Church of the Night cannot escape this wave. Especially during the Sky Curtain War, the Church of Saint Julie used the strategy of extraordinary silence combined with bombardment by ordinary weapons, harvesting a lot of extraordinary creatures and even causing the fall of angels. So before the Sky Curtain War was over, some people came up with a bold idea: Is it possible to make some ordinary weapons that can be taken out of the Church of Saint Julie and allow ordinary people to resist mythical creatures?"

At this point, Leonard fell silent.

"I don't know what happened after the Sky Curtain War...Isn't this idea really implemented in the past three hundred years?"

Klein silently put down the pendulum again, and the topaz rotated clockwise once again.

"Could this thing really be done?" Leonard was stunned. He suddenly felt like he had woken up after sleeping for three hundred years and found that his worldview had been turned upside down.

This time, the citrine finally turned counterclockwise firmly, indicating denial.

The two people who were staring at each other breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and immediately found their reactions a little funny.

"Do you think this is possible?" Klein asked.

"You are above the Old Ones, what do you think?" Leonard asked back.

"Now you have more knowledge of the occult than I do, and you've eaten more than 1,300 years more than I have."

"I think this is a scam, a delusion, it's impossible."

“I also think it’s just a waste of effort.”

The two smiled at each other, as if mocking each other's unnecessary sense of crisis that had just overturned their worldview.

But a word suddenly came to Klein's mind.

【Match of Nothingness】

Some vague guesses came to Klein's mind, but he was not ready to tell Leonard now.

“The gods expanded the barrier protecting the earth, and humans have since had a safe zone called the [Surface of the Starry Sky]. But this also means that the gods have taken another step away from humans. This is one of the reasons why the church attaches importance to mortal weapons: divine matters are resolved by gods, and human matters are resolved by humans.

“So before the Sky Curtain War, various churches had already used firearms on a large scale in their daily affairs. We needed strength to protect ourselves and deal with various extraordinary incidents caused by ‘human nature’.

Klein gradually understood the unspoken rules of the extraordinary world of the Sixth Epoch. Now, compared to these background stories, Klein was more concerned about the surname Leonard just mentioned.

"The Tesla brothers and sisters... the Tesla family... the Tesla Group..."

In Klein's memory of the Sixth Epoch, this was a family of scientists who made outstanding contributions to the electrical revolution, and a technology company with a long history that was still standing strong. If he mobilized all his memories, he would find that this word had the same pronunciation as the familiar surname of the old days.

"Yes, Tesla, a very strange last name." Leonard agreed.

That's because it's not even a Loenese word, but a language from the distant old days.

This made Klein even more curious about this family. He suddenly remembered that he had bought a book about the history of the Tesla family in the Sixth Epoch, but it had been sitting on the bookshelf gathering dust since he bought it. Now was a good time to read it, and Klein hoped that it would give him some inspiration.

So Klein stood up to get the book, but as soon as he opened the bookcase, a familiar sense of dislocation and illusion came over him again. All his senses seemed to be covered by a layer of gauze in an instant, and the whole world began to become unreal.

He calmed himself down and scanned the bookshelf carefully. Instead of taking away the book "A Brief History of the Tesla Family", he reached out and took down the book that shouldn't be there.

"Moretti Family Tree".