Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Backlund is ▇▇▇ meters underground.

Underground city transport road.

Feeling the shaking beneath him and the wetness on his face, Klein opened his eyes with difficulty.

I seemed to be in a car, holding something wet and rough metal in my hand, and there were some dark shadows around me.

He subconsciously raised his hand to see what he was holding, so he raised his hand to his eyes.

It was a bloody crowbar.

Klein immediately sat up in shock, fully awake.

"Hey, Hermann, you're awake!"

Ando Kailichi, who had triangular ears, squeezed over, patted Klein on the shoulder, and comforted him gently.

"Don't be afraid, you're fine."

Klein then realized that he was on a rail transport vehicle, with some people sitting around him. A three-legged white dog was sitting next to him, sticking its tongue out, and the ferocious-looking Henrik Schelling was staring at him viciously.

This is the Hazel Street transport.

"Why am I... here?"

The headache and confusion left by the illusion had not yet disappeared. Klein remembered that he fell into the illusion, killed Shanning Tesla, and then fell into a coma.

"We picked you up on the way back to town."

As Kelrich continued to talk, he returned Klein's suitcase to him.

"Sota found you first. You were lying in the tunnel, unconscious, with your suitcases scattered all over the place. There were three bandit-like men around you, but they were all dead.

“I went up to take a look and saw that it was someone I knew!

"But I have to tell you something. It took me a lot of effort to convince Captain Sherin to take you with him! Now you owe me a favor, or rather, you owe us at Hazel Street a favor.

"Remember to pay it back! Otherwise I won't be able to explain myself!"

"……Thanks."

"You really don't remember anything?"

Looking at Klein's bewilderment, Kelich couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"It really is 'Sleeping Hermann'!"

"..."

Can this meme be passed?

"Then this crowbar..."

"I don't know about that. You were holding it when we found you. We thought you had picked up some construction debris to use as a weapon and were about to throw it away, but you held it tightly and we couldn't pry it open, so we had to bring the crowbar up with you.

"Wow, you had that strong grip..."

Kerridge couldn't help but admire it sincerely.

"It is indeed 'Sleeping Hermann'..."

"..."

I will close my eyes right now, turn over and perform a sleeping punch for you. Are you satisfied?

Why didn’t I realize that you have this side before?

You and those bastards in the dungeon have learned bad things!

It seemed that this was the only information available, and Klein could only try to search through his fragmented memories.

When Klein finally killed Shanning, he was not conscious. Looking back now, he couldn't even tell whether it was Melissa or Shanning who died at his hands.

Klein looked at the crowbar carefully. It was exactly the same as the one he saw in the illusion.

Klein used this crowbar to pierce Melissa's body. The soft, wonderful, and disgusting feeling...

...No, that was an illusion! The one who actually pierced Melissa with the crowbar was that bastard whose pseudonym was Is...

He tried hard and carefully to peel off the cognition that belonged to the illusion, trying to draw a clear line between the real world and the illusion world.

So... where did this crowbar come from...

Could it be that... I took it out from the illusion...?

No, that's not right!

Klein firmly denied this speculation.

According to his previous judgment, there should be an unbridgeable gap between illusion and reality, otherwise Melissa would not have disappeared so completely. If it is confirmed that [the crowbar came from the illusion], it will overturn the basic inference that [reality and illusion do not interfere with each other]. In this way, all the context and cognition he had previously sorted out will be overturned, and his understanding of the current situation will fall into chaos and doubt. He needs to rebuild the tower of understanding Melissa and the illusion, which is a great threat to his mental state.

Should we stick to rationality and believe in stereotypes, or overturn logic and rebuild cognition?

After thinking for a moment, Klein gripped the crowbar tightly.

Illusions cannot directly connect with reality.

He must have picked it up in the Gales Library.

He used the crowbar to kill Shanning on the spot, and in a brief period of madness and confusion, he kept rushing upwards, using some extraordinary power to escape from the Gales Library. Finally, he became spiritually exhausted and lost consciousness, falling in a tunnel.

As for the three robbers, they were probably unlucky guys who were hit and killed.

In order to consolidate his understanding, Klein performed divination on the bloodstains on the crowbar.

The moist and fresh blood was indeed the blood of Sannin Tesla, but the old bloodstains that seeped into the metal were from the Mansteins, which had long since deteriorated and turned black over thousands of years.

This also proved to Klein that he had indeed fought with Sanning in the library built by the Mansteins, and picked up a crowbar in the library to kill the insane Sanning Tesla.

Klein couldn't help but rub his swollen temples. It seemed that he was getting more and more easily trapped in various paradoxes of thinking. It was becoming increasingly difficult for him to infer a reliable and definite conclusion through thinking, logic, and even intuition about the various events that were happening. The various conclusions he had already established were also becoming very easy to shake.

It was becoming increasingly difficult for him to get an answer he could trust.

Is this due to the contamination and distortion of thinking logic, or the confusion of the clues of the incident?

Klein decided to attribute all these inexplicable things to [pollution] without thinking. Those [empty smoke and dust] and [illusions] were all considered the source of all evil.

And that damned [Is Shizil].

After returning to the ground and meeting Leonard, Klein decided to strongly ask Leonard to update the symptoms of [Disillusionment Embers] syndrome, and he would be a perfect physical case.

The rail car continued to move forward. As a wounded soldier, Klein was taken seriously by Sota. The dog simply lay down beside him and fell asleep.

Touching the soft dog fur, Klein's thoughts continued to wander.

He never thought that Melissa would come to an agreement with an Outer God Angel.

As for why Melissa agreed, Klein believed that Is Shizel was to blame for the instigation. He must have used extraordinary power on Melissa to fuel her decision.

Then even if Melissa's will is present in this, it becomes impure.

No matter what plans they made and what purposes they had, it seems now that they have succeeded.

Klein's hand suddenly froze.

Putting aside the cost, if their plan really succeeds...

Where is the [Father God] of [Is Shizel] sealed now?

The rail car suddenly braked.

"That's in front..."

"Exile?!"