Mysteries: Arcana Wars

These things are strangely connected.

"Have you heard any news about the Ishdar Group?" Klein asked.

As a programmer who stayed at home, Klein didn't have much impression of large groups and companies in his limited memories of the Sixth Era. He only knew that there were all kinds of logos everywhere on the streets. In this regard, his understanding was not much higher than that of ordinary people.

"...I only know that the technology of Peaceful Starlight Hospital is indeed good, and it has a lot of cutting-edge science and technology in pure mortal medicine." Emlyn said, "Before I woke up, I only cared about information related to medicine."

"Then I might need more information here."

Leonard dumped a stack of filing papers onto the coffee table.

"The Ishdar family is considered a long-established tycoon in Feynet. They took advantage of the conflicts and disputes between Loen and Feynet over the years to make a lot of dirty money. In the past few decades, they came to Loen on pilgrimage in the name of believers of the night, and then started commercial activities in Loen, especially in Backlund, and built various facilities including hospitals, schools, and shopping malls."

"The most luxurious of these is the splendid Holiday Inn which opened last month."

"It has to be said that as a Feynaport Capital Group, if they want to gain a foothold in the chaotic Backlund, they need to use some tricks. Even the imported Gwadar will not trust them."

Another stack of photos was thrown onto the coffee table. There were many photos of Ishdar family members and Backlund celebrities, but there were also some bloody and gloomy scenes. It seemed that these people had dabbled in both the black and white worlds in order to make money in Backlund.

"In fact, from my current perspective, I think these people are stretching their hands too far. I even suspect that they also want to get a piece of the pie between the House of Representatives and the royal family."

The expanding capital groups, the underworld gangs cooperating with enterprises, the wavering congressmen, the royal family and nobles targeted by ambitions...

Klein couldn't help but feel a slight toothache.

How come this is heading towards cyberpunk... even with foreign capital...

"What about the church? What does they think of the Ishdar Group?" Klein asked.

"How do you watch it? Just lie down and watch it!"

Emlyn scoffed.

"Although they seem to be arrogant, their foundation is Feynaport. Backlund's old powerful families and capital groups don't care about this little bit of trouble. As long as they don't go too far, everyone will turn a blind eye."

"Not to mention the church power after signing the 'Pact of Silence'. As long as these secular forces do not play with fire, the church representing the official extraordinary power will not easily interfere with normal social order and commercial competition. On the contrary, they will strongly support the development of science and technology and cultural liberation, and make the greatest efforts to conceal the existence of extraordinary things from the public, and only use doctrines and customs as the simplest form of constraints."

"So some ideological trends emerged that did not believe in mysterious powers at all. We call them postmodernism. Of course, there are very few people who are truly extreme postmodernists. They thoroughly believe that extraordinary powers and church beliefs are a scam to control the minds of the people, in order to make the majority of the poor and even middle-class people work wholeheartedly for the superiors in their jobs, and the church is just a tool for the powerful to make money."

...very few...Is it because these people all died in a very distinctive way in the end...

Klein couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"In the second half of the 'Bright Moon Age', even our blood clan has been operating more as a pharmaceutical company. However, it seems that during this period of time, due to the conflict between Loen and Feynapotter, Loen's blood clan has no connection with the Harvest Church..." Emlyn complained dissatisfiedly.

"...Ah...Postmodernism...Just hearing the name gives me a headache..."

Leonard covered his face in pain.

"You'll never imagine what astonishing shit these extreme postmodernists have done to prove that [the extraordinary and gods are lies], and in the end, almost all of them died a miserable death."

"But the most troublesome thing is that they later called these pioneers who committed suicide warriors and martyrs, and believed that their deaths were all caused by the church's persecution - otherwise why would the church always be the first to arrive? These negative examples have become their propaganda weapons, and they have even begun to brainwash the masses."

What kind of public knowledge is this...

The public intellectuals of the Old Days Era want money, but you, the public intellectual of the Bright Moon Era, want your life...

"In fact, the extraordinary power is only further controlled because of the 'Silent Treaty', and the gods of all parties are only moving further away from the earth in order to expand the safety zone of mankind. But the threats from the endless starry sky and the mysterious unknown have never gone away, otherwise there would not be so many extraordinary disasters and mysterious wars in the Bright Moon Era."

This way, we wouldn't have to play hide-and-seek and guessing games like we are playing now...

"It seems that our David Axus is also a victim of the postmodern school." Klein sighed helplessly, "Sometimes the development of information technology is not necessarily a good thing."

"Speaking of this, I do have some information. I would like to ask Mr. Moon and Mr. World for help."

Leonard displayed several charts on the coffee table, which contained multi-angle photos of some antique artifacts and corresponding introductory texts.

"In the Harvest Church bombing, although the church was eventually restored to its original state, several exhibits were still lost. The Mechanical Heart, which is responsible for the church review, and the royal family, which manages the museum, commissioned our police to open a case to find these lost items."

"Since you are willing to hand it over to our police, I guess there are no extraordinary items inside. I would like to ask Mr. World to do some divination later. Please also keep an eye on Mr. Moon."

"no problem."

Klein readily agreed. He picked up the form and examined it carefully. He took out two golden star coins and quickly divined the various lost items. He then recorded the relevant information on the form.

"Wait, something's wrong."

After all the divinations were completed, Klein suddenly felt something was wrong. After reading and checking again, he found the problem.

"There's one thing missing from this list: the [Glorious Gold Cup]!"

As he spoke, Klein described the appearance of the [Glorious Golden Cup] according to his memory, and recounted in detail how Nelson snatched the [Glorious Golden Cup] and summoned the red glow.

"... a very familiar wine glass style, but I can't recall anything valuable..." Leonard closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, "The royal family suddenly ordered the removal of the museum's treasure and replaced it with this thing, and they don't want the police to track it down... It seems that the Ishdar Group is not the only one that wants to interfere with the royal power..."

"Remember, I'll keep an eye on it." Emlyn and the other two nodded.

But Leonard's gaze did not move away, so Emlyn glared back fiercely and hid the antique doll behind him.

"What are you looking at? I will never give the doll back! It was originally mine!" Emlyn muttered, "Besides, if the hospital is really sanctioned by Loen officials, it can be exchanged for considerable funds on the black market..."

"but……"

"If there are special circumstances and you are worried about divination and prophecy tracking, you can keep it in my apartment if necessary." Klein suggested, "But I have tried it, and your doll should have been processed with higher standards of anti-prophecy and anti-divination, so it won't be a big problem."

After Leonard had no other requests, Klein took over the paper rolling stick.

"I hope to buy some extraordinary items to equip myself. Does anyone have any for sale? Or where should I go to look for them?"

Leonard thought for a moment.

"My suggestion is that you can go to the underground city black market and have a look. Three hundred years ago, there were many extraordinary items traded there. Even now, it is also a place where various gangs are active. But more than three hundred years have passed. I don't know what the status of the extraordinary items trading in the underground city black market is now."

"Understood. Thank you Mr. Star."

At this point, Emlyn took out another can of disinfectant and raised his hand to speak.

"Mr. World, I want to entrust you with one more thing. Since it is not convenient for me to show too much strength, I want to ask you to treat my teacher, Dean Sinedu. I will help you with the relevant access issues in the background."

Klein readily agreed.

At this point, the three of them had no other needs, so the conversation began.

"By the way, Mr. World, the investigation you commissioned me to conduct last time has ended."

Leonard, who had just remembered this, reached into the file bag and fumbled around, then took out a handful of small pieces of paper and put them together.

"I extracted the biometric images of the photos you sent me last time, such as fingerprints, irises, and faces, and checked them thoroughly in our police station's archive system. I also privately retrieved some illegal data to search. After multiple matches, I finally confirmed the names of the protagonists of these photos—"

"Darkon Abraham."

"Mr. World, the murderer who came to assassinate you on the night you returned was a member of the Abraham family."