Mysteries: Arcana Wars

After being exposed, Klein gave Mrs. Misty an apologetic smile. His current look was indeed something he had done in a hurry. In order to quickly separate the two identities of "Fully Automatic Cyber ​​Wishing Machine" and "Unlucky Street Magician of the Sixth Epoch", Klein randomly attached modern elements that were in line with the spirit of the times to himself, and barely created a very amateur new look.

But under Mrs. Misty's hands, everything became different.

As his skirt fluttered, Mrs. Misty took off all the redundant accessories on Klein. As the square array moved and changed, the performers who gathered around him hung fluorescent accessories and brightly colored straps on Klein's body with every move they made.

The acting and dancing never stopped, as Mrs. Misty turned this sudden transformation into an impromptu drag show.

After the dance, as Mrs. Misty raised her mechanical legs, pieces of paper fell from the sky. At this time, Merlin Hermes's look had been completely renewed, with a perfect combination of retro style and modern trends, completely integrating into this grand parade.

"That's more like it!" Mrs. Misty exclaimed with satisfaction.

There was a brief pause between the songs, and Klein held Mrs. Misty's waist to complete a beautiful fixed point. It made him feel as if he was not dancing with a performing artist, but rather holding a perfect mechanical dancing puppet on a music box.

Feeling the vibration of the pocket watch on his chest, Klein looked up at the front of the team. Amid the flying petals, Benson, who was also holding Ruth, gave him a bright smile from the other end of the crowd.

"You were distracted during your performance, Mr. Merlin. Are you looking for something?

Mrs. Misty noticed something strange about her dance partner and glanced off into the distance without making a sound, but she didn't know what the other person was looking at.

"Then go and find it! I won't keep you here any longer."

The notes of the next song followed closely, and Mrs. Misty twisted her waist, and Klein was gracefully carried out by her movements.

"No matter what, please go find it with Luo Rui and my blessings!"

Klein quickly greeted Mrs. Misty, then pushed through the crowd and rushed towards Benson and Ruth.

He opened his pocket watch, and the slender second hand trembled back to zero before he could run a few steps.

Just like before, the illusion of Benson and Ruth only flashed in the crowd for a few seconds and then disappeared immediately.

So Klein held the pocket watch and followed the team to the place where he had just put down his watch and walked quickly. As expected, after a while, the second hand on the pocket watch suddenly jumped a few ticks clockwise, and Benson and Ruth appeared in his sight again, dancing to the drum beats, as if they had never disappeared and had been circling in the carnival team from beginning to end.

After figuring out the situation, Klein started running.

It seemed that Benson and Ruth, like the illusion of Melissa, had no ability to control their own appearance and disappearance. The familiar yet strange illusion appeared and disappeared over and over again, and the uncomfortable feeling of alienation washed over Klein again and again, causing him to repeat between reality and illusion as the illusion compass twitched.

What exactly is he looking for?

Is he going to find Benson and Ruth, or is he going to find an answer about the past and the future? Are his contradictions and confusions directed at them or himself?

Too many problems have sprouted and grown in Klein's heart over the past few days, and now they are about to become a disaster.

Who is holding the light for me in the dark?

Or is there someone! Under the abyss! Holding the string that pulls me! !

Klein's feet suddenly slipped, and he fell heavily on the soft soil. The frequent jumps between reality and illusion in a short period of time made the sense of emptiness and isolation brought by this special illusion worse, and even substantially affected Klein's body coordination.

The earthy smell helped Klein find a sense of groundedness amid the chaos. He sat up with the help of a tree and looked carefully at the situation, only to find that he had already left the lively carnival parade and came to a small park with few people.

Klein took out his pocket watch, and the minute hand of the illusion compass finally moved, which meant that he was now in a stable illusion with at least three minutes left.

It won’t switch easily anymore, which means that whether he has hallucinations or not, Klein is in a certain and stable state, and there won’t be such obvious sensory disorders as just now.

...These hallucinations...Where exactly do they come from...Is this side effect a bit too strong...

…No matter how bad I am, I still retain my Sequence 2 status. Can this affect me? …

The stable situation brought Klein a sense of clarity, and he began to try to recall how he came here chasing the phantom.

Benson and Ruth, who I had just seen repeatedly in the hallucination, had black hair and black eyes, just like the illusion Melissa, and looked to be in their twenties. If compared together, they looked like the same age as the illusion Melissa.

After a brief rest, Klein condensed the gray mist into a walking stick, stood up, and looked around for the culprit who triggered the illusion compass. However, after quickly circling the park, he did not find Benson and Ruth, or even Melissa.

In some of the investigations in the past few days, Klein also encountered some small illusions cast by low-sequence beings or extraordinary objects. Klein, who is now an angel, can easily see through them. At the same time, he also discovered that this [Illusion Compass] pocket watch can not only react to illusions such as Melissa, but also indicate any illusions he encounters.

But the only drawback is that the [Illusion Compass] can only indicate how long the illusion will last, but cannot specify the type and direction of the illusion.

...So now I should consider that there are other hallucinations disturbing me, but I just haven't discovered it yet...

...But I didn't find anything during that round just now...

Returning to the starting point, Klein held onto the tree with one hand and studied his pocket watch with the other. If he couldn't rule out the source of the hallucination, the safest thing to do would be to stay where he was and wait for the pointer to return to zero.

The most common thing in parks in autumn is fallen leaves. Klein stepped on a tree root that was exposed above the ground, and because of the fallen leaves covering it, he slipped down with his feet.

Klein frowned and used his foot to push aside the leaves on the ground. There were a few twisted Roselle figures floating on the bare ground, and faint, empty smoke was rising.

"Huh, are you wavering, Shifty?"

The few short black words were damp, sticky, and ugly, but Klein could truly feel the endless malice coming from the abyss. It was mockery, ridicule, resentment, and disdain. It was the anticipation of a doomed blasphemer, eager to watch his own depravity and madness...

Klein stared at the twisted text and raised his cane high.