Mysteries: Arcana Wars

The boss always uses the tactic of using partially known information to put pressure on customers.

"Ah."

The gloomy man made a rough and hoarse voice.

"Escaping from the hands of the Church of Evernight is just... cough, cough..."

Halfway through his words, the man began to cover his mouth and cough violently. The severe discomfort made him bend over, and he stretched his neck and coughed violently. Groups of wriggling black shadows fell from his face, hit the ground, and turned into pieces of charcoal.

"...Hehe...Sene..."

The man trembled and let out an uncomfortable laugh, then he bent down and slowly picked up the coke paste on the ground and put it back on his face.

This made the pawn shop owner immediately feel a strong sense of crisis. The lifeless prosthetic eye faithfully transmitted the information of the black masses to his soul, and the subtle feeling of dizziness and distortion was accurately transmitted to the mechanical limbs.

...This guy's condition... doesn't seem to be very good...

Some inexplicable but appropriate fear made the boss ask an inappropriate question.

"...Mr. Field Moretti, where is the other gentleman who came with you last time..."

"...Where have you been...Hehe...I just finished another work, assigned a task...and changed into a new outfit...Ahem!"

The man suddenly laughed happily, feeling happy from the bottom of his heart. Then he started coughing painfully as if a wound was torn. The charred wooden stick in his hand flickered with fire as he coughed.

Faced with the unexpected situation, the boss still showed strong professionalism. There was no shortage of lunatics and extraordinary killers among the customers of this pawn shop, and the boss had seen a lot of them, but his spiritual intuition was frantically warning that either the gentleman's situation was very threatening, or the extraordinary item in his hand was very threatening.

A suspicious person who has the ability to change his appearance, an abnormal mental state, and a dangerous sealed object. He should be a killer.

"Sir, I can provide you with good potions and items that can help you effectively suppress the negative effects of extraordinary items or the madness caused by extraordinary characteristics. You can choose to trade with some equivalent items or money, or you can also do a small thing for us... such as killing a person for our other customers in need..."

The boss spread his hands.

"Very good price, I guess you're pretty good at this, right?"

Listening to her boss's statement, Gloria knew that all her suggestions had worked.

Hehe, I took the bait.

Some seals with very practical negative effects, a set of body language performances with ulterior motives, a touch of fear that was just right, and the rich experience over the years, all made it a natural outcome.

There is still a long way to go to fight against the Ferris Cult. Inspired by Scott, Gloria also hopes to break away from the restrictions of the church and catch the Ferris Cult off guard from another direction to distract their attention.

The church's actions can get a lot of resources to support them, but they will also attract a lot of attention, which sometimes makes the actions somewhat restricted. For the scattered and troublesome problems of the Ferris Cult, Gloria plans to establish a void image specifically for this purpose to attract firepower for the church's next actions, and the card in Jerome's hand is a good opportunity.

So Gloria just did what she said and prepared to make the "Field Moretti" character debut on the spot.

Mental instability, the ability to change appearance, pathological killer, these keywords are very convenient to use as a public identity. As long as this battle is fought beautifully, when other people in the team perform secret tasks with this identity later, the subtle differences and sense of separation will not easily make people see the flaws, but will instead further solidify and enrich the settings.

This was indeed something Gloria came up with on the spur of the moment during the interrogation today. Her subordinates haven't come up with a specific execution plan yet. They'll write it down after they secretly kill all of them and bring them back.

“…Heh…No need…Heh…”

The gloomy man suddenly stood up, took a deep breath, and moved forward holding the counter.

"Where are the things that Sene and I sold to you last time? I want to redeem them all."

"…Sorry, I don't think that can be done. Someone has already bought the accessories, as well as some sundries." The boss's electronic screen flashed a few times. "I told you about the risks involved when you came last time."

"And what about the wooden box?"

"A wooden box? Is that the one that looks nice but won't open? Please wait a moment."

The boss was stunned and recalled that there was indeed such a box at that time, but a box that could not be opened could not be sold for much money. The key point was that no sound could be heard when it was shaken, so it seemed empty.

After a while, the boss brought the box over.

This was the first time Gloria touched the box in the real world. In Jerome's dream, Gloria chose this box as a topic and smashed it in the dream to prove that it was an empty shell. Now, when she shook it in reality, she couldn't seem to hear anything inside.

But it didn't matter, because Gloria was just looking for trouble.

"Where's the stuff inside?"

"Inside? No, we haven't opened the box, so how can we sell the contents? Right?"

"Let me ask you, what's in the box?"

Before the boss could send the signal for counterattack to his weapon, the charred wooden stick in Gloria's hand pierced through the boss's mechanical body under his black robe like a cannonball, shattering everything from the annoying facial expression display to the two bent legs!

Almost at the same time as Gloria jumped up, a fierce rain of bullets poured down from the walls on both sides towards her original position. In such a close-range raid, the bullets with tail flames were like slow motion shots in Gloria's eyes. Even with the braking signal transmitted by optical fiber, the clumsy attacks of these thermal weapons were no match for the terrifying physical functions of the Night Path Sequence 3.

The cracks on the charred wooden stick suddenly burst into a dazzling red light, and the scorching fire enveloped the stick and the entire Gloria in the blink of an eye. The surging heat wave destroyed the floor before the bullet did.

boom!

Gloria, engulfed in flames, fell from the sky like a demon from hell. She retreated straight down with the thrust of the explosion, and used powerful and pure violence to bombard the last floor of the basement, where she saw the coward hiding behind the machine.

Everything was just as Gloria had expected. The boss in the black robe was not a highly advanced cyborg. The current technology was barely capable of such a feat, so he must have been a remotely controlled robot. The pawnshop owner, who was confined to his weak flesh and blood, was hiding somewhere and watching the customers for fun.

But all this was far from what the boss had imagined. Before the boss of the destroyed robot could get out of the full set of operating instruments, the charred figure wrapped in flames exploded the ceiling of the room!

In front of the powerful seal, all his "analysis" seemed so ridiculous. In fact, the boss didn't have time to "analyze" at all. He was thrown against the wall by the heat wave and airflow, breaking several ribs immediately.

The fleeing people faced the firelight and cried out in tears:

“Ten thousand… ten thousand heavens… ah!”

Phew!

Before he could finish shouting the first part of his honorific name, the flaming wooden stick stabbed straight into his screaming mouth, and then tore his esophagus and lungs without hesitation, like a hot knife into shaved ice, or a hard board into soft candy.

I won't allow it! Someone is in front of me! Read the name of that bastard!

The wooden stick with bone fragments and body fluids had not yet taken the broken internal organs out of the body when a violent explosion broke out with flames centered on the wooden stick!

Bang!

The coward's body was instantly shattered into charred fragments, which scattered all over the burning house, leaving only a bloody figure and a glowing "Scholar" extraordinary characteristic.

The uncontrolled flames licked the old abandoned underground building without thinking. At this time, Gloria, who was holding a wooden stick, had her skin burnt to carbonization, and it was almost impossible to see her human form.

The explosion and burning were still spreading rapidly, and would not stop until the entire Leeds Street Pawn Shop was destroyed. She lifted her flaming skirt, stepped lightly over the broken machinery and wooden boards, and collected the spoils.

Next to the extraordinary characteristics, there was an old and sturdy communicator, which had been destroyed by the heat wave and was flashing with spiritual light. It should have been an extraordinary item before, but now it was on the verge of being scrapped.

The last message had not yet been written and the cursor was still blinking on the screen.

The ability to change appearance, Field Moretti, abnormal mental state, dangerous seal, killer, at least the order is bad...

Gloria took a look at it and considerately sent out the incomplete message to fulfill his last wish, then smashed it to pieces with a charred wooden stick.

Another violent explosion sent Gloria to the floor of the shop. She walked out of the burning shop slowly, the flames on her body extinguished bit by bit, leaving only a charred figure that could not be seen. She carried a charred fire stick and walked leisurely towards the kicked door under the horrified gazes of the onlookers.

Gloria suddenly felt a little regretful at this moment that she didn't bring a cigarette with her like Scott did.

Otherwise, it would be really cool to have fire and smoke right now.