Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Melissa and Is are the Mansteins!

Klein suddenly understood, as if all the doubts that weighed on his mind had been answered.

Why do Melissa and Mrs. Manstein know so many old languages, why is Mrs. Manstein's personal information so incomplete, and why does Melissa know the Mansteins so well.

Because they are the same person!

No, to be precise, [Mrs. Manstein] is a fragment of Melissa's life over three hundred years.

From this perspective, if March Moretti, who loved machinery but died in the disaster at the end of the Fifth Epoch, represents Melissa's ordinary and simple life as a small town girl in the Fifth Epoch, then Melissa Manstein represents Melissa's magnificent academic career and extraordinary adventures in the Sixth Epoch.

These two identities are both fragments of Melissa's real life and not all of them. They include Melissa's trajectory and are filled with a lot of irrelevant information, becoming a new existence. In the real history and spiritual world information, they are just themselves, not Melissa. If you explore the underworld now, you will probably not find Melissa in the long river of eternal darkness. Only [March Moretti], [Melissa Manstein] and others are immersed in it.

Just like Klein's previous experience and conjecture, with Melissa's death, all traces of Melissa Moretti in reality will vanish. The most intuitive phenomenon is that her life journey in this society will be dismantled and distorted, becoming the life of others. Even the real world will automatically repair possible logical loopholes for self-consistency, and sometimes a completely different person will be born from it, go through a period of life in place of Melissa, and then die inexplicably.

To the real world, and even to today's spirit world and underworld, [March Moretti] and [Melissa Manstein] are real existences, and [Melissa Moretti] is just an illusion floating above the world.

Klein suddenly felt somewhat powerless.

He suddenly realized that in front of this world, he and those people of the "Postmodern School" seemed to be no different. They were using their lives to prove that a real thing was a lie, while he was trying to prove that a false illusion was real. In essence, they were all trying to overturn a fact that was as solid as a mountain of evidence and refute an iron law of reality that could not be overturned.

It seems like he and they will have a lot in common, Klein thought with some self-mockery.

If we consider it from this perspective, most of the research Melissa did in her life should be attributed to Mrs. Manstein's masterpiece. Klein believes that this is why Manstein's notes are so rampant: they are a scholar's nearly three hundred years of academic career condensed into seventy years of genius inventors. And it is very likely that [Mrs. Manstein] lived for more than seventy years, but was hidden by the Steam Church because of her increasingly serious madness, and the so-called disappearance was just an excuse.

Is this the origin of the treasure theory and conspiracy theory?

Everyone speculated that the Steam Church had controlled the genius inventor to secretly build some amazing machinery for him...

Klein was more concerned about Melissa's fate than the treasure. Piecing together the information he had, Klein could roughly understand:

After the Utopia period, Melissa became very close to the Steam Church and received some funding. After completing her studies at Backlund University of Technology, Melissa continued to work and do research at the university. During her time as a young scholar, she probably worked part-time in the library for more salary, and eventually became the director of the library, while also working as a covert agent for the Steam Church. It was at this time that Melissa met Is, whose origins were unknown.

At the same time, Klein also guessed that Melissa should have known her identity as the Fool in the Fifth Epoch, and even knew more about her own identities.

After the apocalypse, Melissa became the president of Backlund University of Technology with the support of the Church of Steam, and hosted many restoration and reconstruction projects with Is. But something must have happened between them later, causing Melissa to gradually go crazy in the long years that followed. Perhaps this is also the key to the fact that Melissa and her descendants will end up in nothingness.

Later, Melissa's various researches, marked by the Rama steam engine, greatly promoted the social reconstruction in the post-apocalyptic era of the Sixth Epoch and the subsequent Second Steam Revolution. Based on the knowledge of the old days, she left many guidelines for social development for future generations.

Where did she get all this old knowledge from... Did I tell her all of it...

Klein didn't need to elaborate on Melissa's achievements, as everyone in the world was praising her great deeds. But her madness and disappearance in the future still bothered Klein.

...Is Shezil...

Could He be the source of all these contradictions?

This alien spent so much effort on Melissa's plan, and what he was after was definitely more than just a name.

In that carefully designed encounter, "He", as an outsider, obtained a name from the mouth of a native. From then on, the character "Is Shizil" had the first real connection in this place, like an admission ticket.

He still needs to spend many more years with Melissa in order to allow Yis Shizil to leave enough information in the spiritual world and reality, until the information is complete enough for the spiritual world to acknowledge that Yis Shizil is indeed a human being born and raised on this land.

By then, the angels from the outside world will have a small, hidden, but tenacious and strong connection with the earth, and Yis-Shizil is the invisible umbilical cord, which will spread across the land with the traces he left behind. As long as there are still people who remember Yis-Shizil and as long as there are still traces of Yis-Shizil, his connection with this land will continue to exist.

Klein believed that His purpose was definitely not that simple. Establishing a stable connection was only the first step. This would be a channel, an umbilical cord, and the basis for His next move.

So what is His fundamental purpose for coming here? Is He, like some Outer Gods, trying to spy on the sealed source essence in this land, or other resources in this land that Klein has never known about?

Was Melissa the one He carefully selected, or was she the result of a random roll of the dice?

line.

Klein remembered the twisting and twitching threads in Is's vision. They covered the sky and formed a chaotic and disordered dome.

Is this... [Relation]?

……etc……

[Nothingness] and [Relationship], are these two sides that depend on each other? !

Before Klein could think about it, a familiar feeling of weightlessness came over him. He quickly took out his pocket watch and saw that the pointer was shaking wildly at 12 o'clock, then suddenly went berserk, and finally stopped at : after turning several circles.

At 1:30 in the morning, Melissa once again stared at the pocket watch anxiously. After watching the minute hand move through a few more spaces, she put it away again.

Sitting in front of the dim light, Melissa stared blankly at her notebook, the pen spinning in her hand reluctant to put it down.

[Should I trust Is-Shizil?]

【Yes? 】【no? 】