Mysteries: Arcana Wars

A huge explosion sounded on the streets of Evernight Harbor. As the flames rose, more red-robed men rushed out of the ruins of the Cotton Bank, indiscriminately hunting down people on the street.

"Give it back to us! Give it back to us!"

Fina ran out without looking back, until she reached the intersection where the Night Stone Tablet stood, she realized that a battle was inevitable.

Urban street fighting was Fina's specialty. As the battle plan was quickly drawn up in her mind, Fina turned into a fork in the road, stood against the wall for a moment, quickly took out a loudspeaker and a submachine gun, appeared on the street again, and began to fight the enemy.

According to the Comet Squad's setting, this killer is a faceless man rather than a requiem master. In order to conceal the actor's true path, the Comet Squad set up a speaker with the extraordinary characteristics of the Night Path for the killer as a portable extraordinary item.

After pressing the switch, the loudspeaker began to play loud but soft music, accompanied by gentle poetry recitation. The people who rushed over fell one by one and were shot in their sleep.

Of course, Fina's loudspeaker was just an ordinary loudspeaker, playing a pre-recorded ordinary recording. The real effect was the poem Fina read along with the recording, and the soothing effect of her full release. The perfect volume made Fina's voice seem very natural and not prominent. Even the audience in the hail of bullets did not notice that the music that entered their ears was sandwiched with two different reading voices.

The conflict was over faster than Fina had imagined, and she hadn't even used her other truly extraordinary items yet.

However, it seemed that because he launched a counterattack here, many red-robed people were attracted and rushed over, and then died under the Black Night Stele. This actually bought time for the people of Yongye Port to react and rescue.

It seems that the individual quality of these red-robed men is not high, Fina thought. She lowered her head to check and found that most of these red-robed men were skinny, and some were even malnourished, but they all had dark circles under their eyes to a certain extent, and lying together, they even felt that they looked a bit alike.

Thinking about their angry and hateful looks just now, Fina still felt frightened, as if everyone here was their enemy.

There was a man in a red robe lying on the Night Stone Tablet. Fina habitually moved the body away and wiped the stone tablet, only to find that a small piece of the stone tablet was broken at the foot.

Since it was just a simple task, Fina simply found the fallen stones on the ground and roughly filled the gap.

……etc……

...This stone tablet...seems to be hollow?

...It seems that what is placed inside is...

Before Fina could take a closer look, someone walked out of the crowd.

"Thank you for your help to Evernight Harbor, Mr. Field Moretti."

The bartender of Earthworm Island saluted with a smile, but his face looked extremely hideous with blood flowing from all seven orifices.

"Excellent technique, very clean and decisive, one shot to kill, no action was superfluous, a wonderful massacre."

The bartender stood at the intersection, admiring the street scene in front of him. The fire behind him had been put out, leaving only billowing smoke. But he didn't care.

The narrow intersection was now littered with corpses. On top of the layers of red robes stood a broken stone tablet and a shadowy killer with half his body stained in blood.

"This method is just used to kill pet cats and unfaithful people. It's such a waste."

Fina didn't say anything. The wide brim of her hat and the raised collar covered most of her face. She was brainstorming on the spot, thinking about how to respond in a way that would be consistent with her personality in such a embarrassing situation.

Finally, she decided to use a few passages from the poetry recitation recording stored in the speaker. According to the settings, the broken words alone would not activate the "Extraordinary Item".

"...bloody...awesome..." Fina and the speaker spoke at the same time. Fragmented words from different recordings were picked out and pieced together, making Fina feel like she was playing DJ music.

"It seems that you just have no taboos." The bartender smiled, "For a killer, this is a valuable professional quality."

"...The contract is signed...I will be loyal to my duty..."

"... Exiles..." The bartender walked forward, sat on the body of a red-robed man, grabbed the head of another red-robed man and turned it left and right, "If you have any information about them, you can sell it to me for a good price from now on."

"...There's nothing..." Fina recited along with the loudspeaker, "...Do you know him?"

"Yes, I do. And according to the rules of Evernight Harbor, since I answered your question, you must now answer me a question of equal value."

The bartender couldn't help but look up.

"Just out of personal curiosity, why do you want to talk to me through a megaphone?"

Don't you have a voice? Can't you just speak properly? Stop giving me two-channel voice all the time!

"...It's just...a personal...hobby..." Both Laba and Fina paused, "...it fits...the drama that just ended...don't you think...it's very appropriate?"

"..."

It seems to be similar to the intelligence, and the brain is indeed somewhat involved.

To be honest, the young boss hiding in the bartender's body didn't dislike lunatics. After all, in the dungeon, especially in Evernight Harbor, there was no shortage of mental illness and lunatics. The boss himself was also very self-aware. He had lived in this fucked-up place for so long and had consumed so many fucked-up Beyonder characteristics, so he must have had some.

It is one thing to be involved in it yourself, but it is another to deal with other people who are involved. It is usually painful for a madman to deal with another madman. They often have their own aspirations, are paranoid and self-centered, and it is difficult to unify their illnesses in a short period of time. They can only reach a temporary superficial consensus when necessary. But as the boss of Yongye Port, he has to deal with this group of madmen, and can only dig out some interesting information to entertain himself every day in the pain and torture.

Just like opening a blind box, you never know what kind of logic the madman in front of you is using, and you don't really want to get into the inner world of other madmen. But you are the boss, so you have to open the blind boxes one by one, take them out and read them one by one, and even lick them carefully, trying to understand these weird logics that don't conform to your own thinking, so that you can accurately predict the next move of the madman on the other side, and then seek the greatest benefits for Evernight Port.

There is no way, the boss thought. Maybe the difference between him and these free lunatics is that he is the owner here.

"Thank you for your answer."

The bartender stood up, walked to Fina, stretched out a bloody hand, and blood flowed down his face.

"Night Harbor owes you one today, Mr. Moretti."

******

Backlund underground ▇▇▇ meters

In another passage of the Cotton Alley Exchange, a man in a black robe was running in the pipe.

Suddenly, the man in black huddled up and went into a small passage that even normal adults could not enter.

A moment later, she emerged from the other end of the pipe and fell into a safe cave.

Today's acquisition plan did not go smoothly. Not only did we fail to acquire the desired extraordinary characteristics or potion materials, but we also encountered such an attack.

She slipped out of the chaotic explosion site just in time. For a Sequence Six hypnotist, it was not difficult to break through the numerous obstacles and find another way to escape, not to mention that her relatively petite body made it very easy to move.

One thing after another reminded her that something big was about to happen in Backlund.

The man in black did not stop and returned to the surface of Backlund along the narrow secret passage. No one would notice this path because it was not enough for a normal person to pass through.

At the last hole, the man in black suddenly squirmed, and his skin and outer robe deflated like a balloon, getting stuck in the pipe and blocking the secret passage.

A golden retriever opened the manhole cover from the top of the pipe, and Susie jumped out of the abandoned exhaust port as usual. In order to protect the little girl she raised with great difficulty and their hard-earned happy life, she needed to be more prepared for the possible dangers.

It seems that making Audrey an "audience member" is imminent.