Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Backlund 10 meters underground

The Church of the Night, St. Julie's Church.

Gloria Mitchell woke up on time from her short nap dream.

The mobile phone terminal vibrated, reminding her on time for the next task after her break.

Then her phone vibrated again, telling her that the scheduled dream meeting had been cancelled due to changes in circumstances.

Gloria sighed and slid back into her comfortable folding bed. Now she had an extra thirty minutes of rest time.

This is how the situation changes...

This was originally a dream meeting with several bishops from other regions. Although it was not very important, since the originally scheduled meeting was suddenly cancelled, it meant that some people were in big trouble again.

She lay flat on her back, silently tapping the stars on her chest and praying for her unfortunate colleagues.

At Saint Julie, the main theme is extraordinary silence. It is estimated that the goddess can't hear it, but the process still needs to be followed. After all, the concern for colleagues is real.

No one can escape the fate of being tortured by meetings. Thinking about the negotiation with Helgi of Abraham before lunch break, Gloria felt a headache. For Abraham now, our Church of Darkness should indeed...

stop.

Now is the time to rest, to lie down and to think.

One of Gloria's principles for maintaining a good mentality is to handle work efficiently during working hours and not bring any work content and emotions into precious rest time.

So the words about Abraham that just popped up in her mind immediately disappeared, and her nerves relaxed again, just like herding sheep, letting her tired thoughts float around the office.

Gloria had long been accustomed to the working style of the Church of Night: packed schedules, endless reports, urgent tasks that had to be done at any time, and those "accidents" that never chose a time.

You can never imagine from which angle a destructive criminal will suddenly jump out, disrupt your established work schedule, and make the entire team from top to bottom work overtime for a whole day.

But there's nothing I can do, this is my job...

Choosing a job means choosing a life.

Gloria's life consists of two very divided parts: working at full speed at her job to efficiently deal with various complex and dangerous situations in the extraordinary world, and finding a place to clear her mind and lie down completely.

If she had a choice, Gloria would have gone home and laid down for a while. She wanted to lie on Osborne's bed, which was piled with beautiful girl pillows, and watch her eldest grandson, who looked like he had severe hyperthyroidism, sitting in front of the computer, yelling and clacking at the keyboard in a fit of impotent rage.

...Well, spewing shit is not a good habit. It seems that young people nowadays call people like Osborne who have no gaming ethics and show the low quality of human beings every time they play games "keyboard warriors".

In this light, Osborne's personality correction should indeed be put on the agenda. Young people should have good conduct and be polite both on the Internet and in real life. Fortunately, Osborne still shows qualified social etiquette in real life, which shows that he still has room for reform.

Gloria felt somewhat helpless, because she had been able to spend less and less time with Osborn in recent years, and she did not dare to give all the tasks of correcting her grandson to Scott - that would completely ruin Osborn's life and personality. The old man just needed to deal with his own mess. It was unlucky enough for the Steam Church to have a Scott.

No matter what, Osborn is still a young man with unlimited possibilities in the future.

For Gloria, she didn't actually think much about the future when she was young. It was a perfectly normal thing for a child who grew up in an orphanage of the Church of Night to eventually work in organizations related to the Church of Night.

As for why he is a Night Watchman, it can only be because the salary given by the church is too high.

Who would have thought that I would now live a life where even a lunch break of more than an hour is only possible because of the bad luck of my colleagues. Even before, when I went home for vacation to see my eldest grandson, I had to write more than a dozen reports in a row.

I feel like I've been cheated, it's over, I've been ripped off.

I do have a lot of money now, but I have the life to earn it but not the life to spend it.

So most of her salary ended up being numbers on a card. It seemed that there was nothing worth spending a lot of money on. Her son and daughter-in-law had already returned to the Dark Heaven. If she wanted to spend money on them, she could only put diamonds on their tombstones. Her grandson had a stable life. Although he was only a small role in the Pump Spark, he was enough to support himself. As for herself, as an official Beyonder, she did not need a lot of money to buy Beyonder characteristics and potions.

In the end, half of her salary was given to the old man at home. She knew that Scott was the one who pursued his own goals and had the sharpest sense of crisis in the family. Whether it was dealing with the subtle power relations in the extraordinary world or making financial investments, he would pave the way for the future of the family, and she would be responsible for providing the greatest support. She was more concerned about her current life and when she could go home on vacation to bake some cakes.

One disadvantage of having an independent office is that Gloria can no longer eavesdrop on the gossip of her teammates or colleagues, such as which street has opened a new and delicious bakery. Whenever she pretends to pass by, those kids immediately put away their smiles as if they were facing a great enemy, and they frowned and said nothing until she had to disappear at the end of the corridor.

But after following Scott for so many years, even picking up potted succulents has become a little more thoughtful. Gloria is not completely without her own considerations for her future life. In her spare time, she would take advantage of the mission to purchase some extraordinary items without telling the church and Scott, and make a few "friends" who could be used in the future to deal with possible changes. The two would not ask each other what they hid at home or in their hearts. This was out of respect for the two churches and was also a long-standing tacit understanding between the couple.

It's like a basin of water on a drum, Gloria thought. This family is built on a pile of eggs, shaking restlessly all the time. You never know when the water in the basin will spill all over the floor, or even the whole plate will be smashed into powder.

Unlike Scott, who was rebellious and paranoid, Gloria actually didn't have much idea about the extraordinary world. When she first joined the Nighthawks, she just regarded it as a job with amazing salary. However, as her position and sequence were promoted, she was unconsciously forced to shoulder certain responsibilities.

Sometimes Gloria felt that everything at work was unreal, and she just survived one mission after another. Rather than saying that she was a promoted person, it would be better to say that she was a survivor, and then continue to work for the church until retirement - that was her idea before the Sky Curtain War. Now it seems that she can't retire at all.

As for investing in real estate…what’s the point of buying a bigger house? In the end, I still can’t enjoy it and spend almost all my time in this office.