Mysteries: Arcana Wars

The roads leading to the underground cities were not easy to travel, especially those illegal places beyond the jurisdiction of modern society, which were even more hidden and rugged.

Gloria, in disguise, looked like a gloomy, cruel and perverted killer, holding a long, charred wooden stick and kicking open an old door in the slums.

The people huddled on the street just looked up numbly and mechanically, and no one dared to step forward to stop them.

The room was empty. I opened a cellar door and climbed down the stairs for a long time before reaching the bottom.

Gloria let go of the steel bars with both hands and stepped firmly on the wooden boards. An old tunnel that had been abandoned for a long time appeared before her eyes.

The old and dilapidated metal pipes grew like vines along the walls and the top, but they were rusted and dilapidated because they had been abandoned for a long time without maintenance. She continued to move forward according to the information in her dream.

Judging from the technology used in these pipes and the signs of corrosion, this should be a steam equipment channel built at the end of the electrical age, but maintenance was stopped after the advent of the information age. Even if it is restarted now, it cannot realize its original function and has become rotten garbage stuck to the tunnel walls.

Except for some underground cities with official intervention, most small underground cities also use this kind of entrance, abandoned basements, scrapped steam pipe rooms, diverted underground water pipes, abandoned subway shafts... People who have lost hope in the metropolis of Backlund can only dig downwards with their hands, trying to find a place to live and work in the ruins left by history.

This behavior of searching for abandoned underground buildings for survival was originally a spontaneous act of homeless people and the poor, but with the changes of the times and the development of underground space, the abandoned facilities attracted not only the poor and desperate, but also countless dark forces that could not stand in Backlund's open. The intricate underground city was slowly formed.

They had really gone far enough down there. There were fewer and fewer homeless people huddled on both sides of the passage, and Gloria's electronic devices were gradually losing signal.

While she was on guard around the area, she couldn't help but start reviewing today's interrogation to pass the time.

Or rather, today's bank robbery made Gloria very concerned from beginning to end.

Leonard Mitchell was worthy of being Backlund's youngest detective. This time, the report he provided alone bought enough time for the Church of Evernight to arrive at the battlefield shortly after the robbers opened fire.

Afterwards, Detective Leonard and his new assistant cooperated very well with the investigation and interrogation.

Gloria was very satisfied with Leonard's on-the-spot reaction and combat skills on the battlefield at that time. This also gave Gloria a reassurance, confirming that Leonard Mitchell was indeed at the level of Sequence Seven, and was not lying to His Highness Pales about military intelligence.

The unfortunate street magician was also dragged into this. He looked dusty and listless in the interrogation room, and answered every question.

Ever since his identity was stolen by the fully automatic wishing machine, Merlin has been deliberately trying to differentiate his performance style from the original identity that was stolen. He added some messy modern decorations to the Fifth Epoch retro style, but it doesn't look very beautiful, and even looks a bit embarrassing...

When Merlin applied for official identity registration, the file obtained by the Church of Evernight was written by Leonard, which declared that Merlin Hermes was a Sequence 7 "magician" who once studied magic and mysticism with a teacher until the teacher died unexpectedly. He then continued to wander alone. Recently, he stayed on the streets of Backlund for a long time because he could make money quickly, and then his identity was stolen by the fully automatic wishing machine.

The reason why Merlin was able to advance to Sequence 7 was because he followed his teacher's instructions and ate his teacher's relics, which were his extraordinary characteristics.

It is not uncommon to see "hermit masters" with some extraordinary abilities these days, but what really surprised Gloria was the powerful fighting skills displayed by the unlucky Merlin in the underground vault.

A Sequence 7 fortune teller could hold out for so long under such an attack, and was still at ease when she arrived at the vault. Was he too experienced? Gloria strongly suspected that this Merlin must have some high-level seals on him, but he hid them from Gloria.

From this point of view, Merlin's coming to Leonard might not be an accident. Perhaps His Highness Pallez deliberately set up a trap to trick Merlin into losing his "identity" in front of the fully automatic wishing machine. The unlucky guy, who was desperate, pestered a passing detective in order to achieve his goal of abducting the unlucky magician to be an extraordinary bodyguard for his grandson...

This is understandable. His Highness Pales himself cannot act rashly under the supervision of the church, but his grandson can have a good companion on the extraordinary road, which is also a way to protect the child...

He was just a Sequence Seven "companion", two Sequence Sevens were acting together, and Leonard had already reported to the church. This was not the time to monitor or strike hard. Gloria did not think that Pales was intentionally cultivating his own power, but it was still necessary to come to the door on behalf of the Church of Evernight to solemnly warn His Highness Pales about the deliberate guidance of ordinary passing Beyonders.

However, what gave Gloria the most headache was the little girl named Geraldine. Even though she had left her job as a military reporter and investigative reporter, she still enjoyed investigating something. She hoped that she could learn from her lesson, pay attention to her situation, and stop running around, otherwise she would have to take coercive measures against her.

After kicking open the last thick iron door, Gloria's vision suddenly became clear, and a narrow street with debris piled on both sides appeared in front of her.

The people standing on the street looked in surprise at this abrupt and violent stranger, cast a wary and fearful look at him, and moved to both sides of the street.

The gloomy and strange man carried a piece of charred wood and walked into the Leeds Pawn Shop in silence at a steady pace, neither fast nor slow.

There were all kinds of strange people in the dungeon, but the boss in a black robe was used to it. He showed facial expressions on the electronic screen as usual and spread out his two large mechanical hands to express welcome.

"Ah! Hello sir, welcome to Leeds Pawn Shop. What do you want to sell or buy?"

The gloomy man remained silent, just staring coldly at the other side.

"Um... sir, it seems like this is your first time visiting our store, right? It's okay, I can introduce you..."

Snap, a card was slapped onto the counter.

The boss picked up the card and examined it carefully. It was a business card from a pawn shop in Leeds. On one side was the holy emblem of the Ferris Church, and on the other side was a signature written by himself, Field Moretti.

"Wow, you're a returning customer. Welcome!"

The card was clean, with no blood or alterations, but this Mr. Field Moretti was completely different from the last time I saw him.

The boss clearly remembered that the last time Field Moretti took this card, he was a tall man with a round face, big bulging eyes, and a short man with a pointed nose beside him. Now the short man disappeared without a trace, and the tall man turned into a tall and thin man in front of him, wrapped in a thick windbreaker, standing coldly.

Intelligence is the cornerstone of the survival of Leeds Pawn Shop. After the last meeting, the boss quickly found out that the two men were named Jerome Cray and Senai Babb, and "Field Moretti" seemed to be a pseudonym that Jerome Cray came up with on the spur of the moment.

Of the two thieves who stole the goddess' tribute, Jerome was captured by the Church of the Night, but Sene disappeared during the capture. It is very likely that the man holding the signed VIP card is not the round-faced big man who claimed to be Field Moretti at the beginning.

But this had no effect on the transaction, for the boss, whoever held the card was Field Moretti, a repeat customer of the Leeds Pawn Shop.

"I didn't expect to see you again, sir. The pursuit of the Church of Night is really difficult, isn't it?"