Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Gloria even felt a little dazed when she stepped into the house again.

Except for returning once to get weapons, Gloria had not been at home for two months.

After her first leave application was rejected, Gloria submitted several more leave applications to her superiors on the grounds of visiting relatives, and finally she was able to get a day off.

When I opened the door, I saw fresh red roses in the vase in the living room, which meant that Scott had been back for a while.

The noisy sound of Osborne playing games could be heard from the house. Although the content was unbearable to hear, it also gave the house a bit of life.

Gloria put down her things and walked straight into Osborne's room. Osborne was playing games with his headphones on and his back to her, while Scott placed a small table on Osborne's bed with her favorite sweets on it, and it was obvious that he had been waiting for her for a long time.

"Finally I let you back in!" Scott patted the bed and motioned for Gloria to sit down. "You clearly stepped into the house before, but you refused to stay home for another second. Tsk, tsk, tsk, you are such a cruel old woman!"

"Task."

Joking aside, both of them understood that the other had no choice.

Osborne's room was crowded, filled with all kinds of plastic figurines and stuffed dolls, as well as some strange mechanical handicrafts. His gaming chair backed up and hit the edge of the bed, getting stuck there.

The couple moved the bedside table behind Osborne's chair, and the three of them sat close together.

Scott raised his hand, grabbed Osborne's earphones and yelled, "Smelly boy! Where's your amulet?"

"Oh, I have it with me!"

Without even raising his head, Osborn dug out a black pendant from his chest, threw it at Scott hastily, then quickly put it back, snatched his headphones back from his grandfather's hand, and continued fighting in the canyon.

After confirming everything, Scott finally sat down with confidence, and squeezed the table towards Osborne, leaning over and whispering to Gloria.

"Abraham wants to restart the Heavenly Punishment Project. What does the Church of Darkness think?"

The weapon of damnation, an arrogant plan.

During the [Skyward War] three hundred years ago, in the square of St. Julie's Church of the Church of Evernight, people achieved the feat of killing extraordinary and even mythical creatures with mundane weapons many times.

The rapid development of mortal technology and the glorious military exploits of St. Julie's Church have made people begin to wonder: Is there a weapon that can allow ordinary people to fight against mythical creatures in their mortal form?

So the [Divine Punishment] plan was born in this context.

Those involved in the research of the Divine Punishment Project were the Steam Church, which was able to provide the Extraordinary Silent Laboratory, the Night Church, which had extensive experience in using mortal weapons to attack extraordinary creatures, and the Abraham Group, which was the first to complete the technology for ordinary astronauts to roam the sky.

This was also the real goal of the Pump Spark Research Institute when it was first established. However, due to the termination of the Divine Punishment Project, Pump Spark was transformed into a high-end laboratory that mainly solves the technical problems of mortal matter, as well as a technical department that provides support to the Church. In addition, the commercial technology completed by Pump Spark is also one of the industries of the Steam Church.

"The Church of Darkness has a positive attitude, but has not made it clear yet. They just asked me to start preparing in advance, so there shouldn't be any problem." Gloria said, "There are still some issues that need to be resolved. If everything goes well, we can agree to Abraham's request."

"The attitude of the Steam Church is similar. They are relatively positive, but they are unwilling to make a statement right now." Scott raised his legs and simply sat cross-legged on the bed. "It seems that both churches are quite cautious about this topic."

"I contacted the Tesla family. They owe us a favor." Gloria began to poke the strawberry cake. "The Church of Darkness hopes to try to solve some problems internally first. The Tesla family alone cannot solve all problems, but the church needs to see the possibility and feasibility."

"It's the same here. The higher-ups are starting to pay attention to the business and connection with Abraham, and are also paying attention to the technical research on pump sparks."

After the Sky Curtain War, the three forces spent a hundred years, only to end up with a failed result, leaving behind countless difficult problems.

Weapons that can effectively fight against mythical creatures are a dream that none of the three parties can refuse, but the huge investment and failures in the past have made the two churches more conservative and cautious. Before giving an answer to Abraham, they must first try to solve some remaining problems in their own home to see if the Heavenly Punishment Plan is now possible.

If they succeed, this is their preparation for the restart of the Heavenly Punishment Plan; if they fail, it will only avoid the waste of more material and human resources.

Neither the Church of Night nor the Church of Steam would easily agree to Abraham's request to restart the Divine Punishment until they saw hope.

"Even Bonois has started asking me questions about the [Void Dust] separation experiment." Scott smiled wryly, "He hasn't paid attention to this issue for almost a hundred years."

"So do you have any results now?"

"No. Experiments and equipment have indeed been iterating, but - no, we have never succeeded in separating a standard amount of nothingness dust."

Scott frowned.

"This is where the Steam Church is most unsure."

When the project of the weapon of damnation was first launched, the goal of the three forces was to create a weapon that could be used against mythical creatures without the need for extraordinary beings.

This means that the weapon must be of mortal quality.

Before this, when the official Beyonders fought against mythical creatures, they all used high-level seals. These items were all dangerous and full of spirituality. Ordinary people and even low-sequence Beyonders might not be able to resist the negative effects of the seals, and might even be contaminated.

For sealed objects, high strength means high risk. Letting ordinary people control them may not only mean death, but in extreme cases it may even increase the opponent's combat power.

However, if high-energy mortal weapons are completely separated from extraordinary powers and have no spiritual protection, they can easily be controlled by other high-sequence extraordinary people, and they will become weapons for the enemy instead.

The requirements of this plan seem to be a paradox: reducing extraordinary factors in order to be adaptable, and increasing extraordinary factors in order to eliminate spiritual interference.

"No matter what, in the Sky Punishment Plan, equipping weapons with appropriate void smoke is the best solution."

Scott had a headache.

"It is indeed right before our eyes, but we cannot use it!"

The only two known existences of nothingness smoke are unusable. One is in the pump spark, and the appropriate method of segmentation has not yet been found, and the Steam Church cannot take it all out for a desperate fight; the other is in St. Julie's Church, to be precise, the fountain in the church square, but it has become a fountain or water flow, and under normal circumstances, it will swallow anything that falls into it.

"Indeed, we don't have any way to utilize the two void smoke dusts we know of now..."

At this point, the two were stunned for a moment, and they thought of the same question at the same time.

"No, we saw the Void Smoke three times."

Scott pushed his glasses up, his eyes suddenly became sharp and serious, and he slowly raised three fingers to Gloria.

"Pump sparks."

"St. Julie's Church."

"And... Splendid Holiday Inn!"

The air suddenly became heavy.

The two looked at each other, no one spoke, but countless thoughts surged in their minds.

This was the first time in three hundred years that they had seen void smoke anywhere else, and such a large and vibrant amount of void smoke.

What exactly is Void Dust? Where does it come from? What is its use? Can it be controlled? Or is it really some forbidden thing that can subvert the extraordinary world?

After living with it for three hundred years, the two suddenly realized that they still knew nothing about the void and smoke.

"The Supreme Council has never responded to any of my proposals regarding the Void Dust, so I simply haven't asked questions about it in recent decades, except for the one at the Brilliant Holiday Hotel - that report on the Void Dust was also ignored." Gloria asked, "What about you?"

"Same, Bonova will simply ignore any questions I ask of Void Smoke, and the same is true for the church."

Scott picked up a cigarette, put it in his mouth, bit it twice, took it off, turned it between his fingers twice and put it back in his mouth. After repeating this several times, he picked up the cigarette and looked at Gloria with burning eyes.

"Do you think there is a possibility that the Church actually knows nothing about the Void Smoke?"

He twisted the cigarette as if he was holding a bunch of fire.

"And we are their tools to explore the source of the void smoke!"