Mysteries: Arcana Wars

"..."

Fors didn't want to complain about Shining's preference in naming anymore.

"So what about BB?" she asked.

"BB has been handed over to Xander and taken to the ground in Backlund. He is safe."

Everything Shining said was understated, even with a crazy laugh, but Fors could feel that she was serious and had made up her mind.

"But nothing is so absolute. Think positively, what if you can survive..."

"There is no chance of that happening, little cutie. I must die."

The Shining's attitude is very resolute.

"Do you remember why I needed Hermann to help me assassinate Shanning? Because we were originally one, and it was a strange sword that split the complete Shining Tesla into two halves. In an incident, Shanning sensed the pollution on the exile's body, so I think the pollution was assigned to Shanning.

“But now that I think about it, I have a different perspective.

"Since Shanning carries the pollution, why am I sure that I have survived this pollution?"

"!!"

Fors suddenly understood what Shining meant, and she felt very uneasy.

"……so……"

“So, in order to prevent this possible contamination from spreading to Sander and other people in Tesla, I must die before everything is irreversible and nip the possible danger in the bud.

"In this way, all the existence of the split Shining Tesla will perish along with the pollution of the world.

"Oh... look at my poor memory, and our lovely baby... But it doesn't matter, I have left a way for the baby, but the door to the new world can only allow one guy to survive.

"She is different from the fragmented me. She is complete, she is new, she has not yet been defined by the world, she is still a blank sheet of paper, she still has infinite possibilities.

"So it's our lovely baby who deserves to survive, not this scary old woman who is only half a soul away and is crazy and dangerous."

Fors didn't know what to say at this moment. The intense fire made her face hot and red. She felt the strong self-destructive tendency of Shining Tesla, but she didn't know what to do. She was a newbie who had just stepped into the dark side of society and was still at a loss about the sludge of these extraordinary people. In the end, she could only stand here quietly, mechanically throwing all the time she had spent with Shining Tesla into the huge incinerator, while listening to the madman's final narration.

"Moreover, I don't know if it's the hidden pollution at work, or if my chaotic spiritual intuition has captured too much information, but I always feel that things have not been peaceful on the exile side of the organization recently. A huge conspiracy and danger are brewing among this group of extremists in red robes.

"The stronger this spiritual warning is, the more dangerous our actions tonight will be. It also makes me wonder if I have also been contaminated by that evil sword. But there is no trace of the contamination symptoms that appeared in Shan Ning on my body.

"Cognition is an obstacle, my dear. It's like a vicious circle. Fighting against the extraordinary pollution of the evil requires a firm and even paranoid will. But the stronger my spiritual warning is, the more I will doubt my own purity, and the more I will slide into the abyss of madness. Even if I am still pure, I will be more easily swallowed by pollution. At the same time, the closer I am to complete madness, the more I will waver, wondering if I have fallen into pollution without knowing it...

"But I also have to thank this strong spiritual warning. Although the existence of this pollution has shaken my cognition, the great danger from the exiles is real. Whether it is spiritual divination or intelligence gathering, the exiles pose a huge threat to our operation this time, and we must have a strong Beyonder to follow the [Dark Lighthouse] to act together. The development history of the Tesla family has always been difficult. It really entered the Beyonder world relatively late, and there are few high-level Beyonders. As a Sequence 5 Generalist and one of the Tesla leaders, of course I have no choice but to do it."

The rustling noise tickled Fors' ears. Under Shining's operation, a pile of shredded data storage fragments were poured into the incinerator. The scorching flames suddenly became hotter, and the pungent smell of burning electronic products spread from the flames. Fors could only smell a little bit, and the gas disappeared. Shining installed some safety facilities and extraordinary items here to deal with the toxic gases that might be released during the incineration, and to deal with the anti-divination and anti-prophecy of these things that needed to be destroyed.

"Tesla has now reached the point where it has to make a breakthrough and be reborn from the ashes. Before this, we were just a group of ghosts possessed by our ancestor Kondra, blindly crawling like ants along the trenches built by Mr. Kondra. When Mr. Kondra's road came to an end, we longed for guidance and prophecy from the [Manstein Notes]. Now, we have made a deal with the Church of Darkness to seek some shelter during this vulnerable period.

“Tesla seems to have been following a beacon, but now it’s time to force him to forge his own beacon and head for a new world.”

At this time, Shining suddenly asked again.

"Little cutie, have you ever done research in basic subjects before?"

"Ah... ah?"

Fors was a little slow to react.

"No, I majored in literature in college."

"Then you are very lucky. You have never seen the true despair at the end of science in this world."

Shining laughed and pushed a bunch of debris into the fire, as if burning his own life along with it.

"I've seen it, I've seen it! Once you realize that in the face of extraordinary power, all the underlying physical rules will become chaotic and disordered, you will no longer be able to believe that science and technology can create a real future for mankind, because the existence of these technologies can only be based on the kindness and charity of extraordinary power! And you will no longer have the courage to explore forward, because you have lost trust in all the theories and data in your hands!"

"But Sander and BB are different. One of them has knowledge and technology but has never engaged in exploration and research, while the other is naive and clear as a blank sheet of paper. They still have faith in future development and technological truth, which is the key to opening a new world.

"And I am already a remnant of the old world. It is time for me to exit the scene at this moment, taking with me all the despair and chaos that Tesla originally had."

Fors was stunned by what she heard. She could strongly feel the aura of destruction and madness coming from the Shining, but that kind of young vitality was quietly sprouting and growing in this pile of ruins. Despair and hope, two completely opposite beliefs, were entangled in the same person.

"By the way, little cutie, do you have any spiritual weapons?"

"Oh, yes, Ms. Shining." Fors handed the spiritual pistol [Starlight] to Shining, "Do you think this is okay?"

Shining held the gun handle, but with his other hand he grabbed Fors' wrist.

“Yes, yes, it’s a good gun, it’s enough, it’s enough.

"Then you must remember, when we reach the top of the well, remember..."

Shining grabbed Fors's hand and put the muzzle of the gun against his forehead.

"Pull the trigger and kill me."