Mysteries: Arcana Wars

funny.

A totem with a long history in the Kingdom of Loen and a new lease of life in the information age.

Occasionally, one can find such a strange totem with a grin and squinting eyes in some artifacts left over from the Fifth Epoch. At first, it was only discovered by some bored scholars who liked to collect unpopular antiques. They wrote down this occasionally discovered totem in their notebooks to spice up their boring and hopeless academic life. Some scholars also wrote several papers around this strange round totem to defraud some funds specifically supporting Fifth Epoch research. Some departments suffered greatly from it.

The totems that have been discovered are painted in different ways and in different colors, but the main elements are round faces, kidney-shaped eyes, eyes looking to one side, and crescent-shaped mouths. In some rare historical materials, the word "funny" is next to this totem, some in Runic, and in some rare cases in several other languages.

However, these historical materials are scattered and scarce, more like some insignificant coincidence, and cannot support a universal conclusion. Perhaps it is because the original discoverers were not sure whether this was a religious totem representing the god of comedy, or because the copyists thought the totem was too funny. Of course, it is also possible that historians unanimously agreed that the totem was indeed very funny and thought that it was all watered-down papers and no one should care about the details. In short, these scholars finally named the totem "funny".

Due to the lack of information, this totem, which only appeared briefly in rare documents of the Fifth Epoch, became almost a fun subject for researchers and archaeologists of the Fifth Epoch. Until the information age, when the birth of the Internet brought people an information explosion, this funny totem became popular again for no apparent reason and became a well-known emoticon.

It was also because of the popularity in the early days of the information age that comedy gradually became a widespread and common amusement for historians. By the 14th century of the Sixth Era, comedy had become a popular synonym or mascot for historians, just like the significance of the Sivellas Field to the Loen Police Department.

Even if you bring such a funny pillow to work, your colleagues will praise you for being cultured and think you are a fan who knows all the details of the Fifth Epoch.

Some dead memories suddenly began to attack Klein.

He recalled that during his college years, the history department of his university often used clowns to decorate their unofficial flags and called themselves clowns. Every final exam, everyone could see students from the history department wearing T-shirts with funny expressions on them and staying up late in the library to review, trying to use this method to increase their chances of passing.

Klein recalled that there was a similar trend in the old days. Young netizens used some strange symbols from ancient civilization murals to make emoticons and made them into various peripherals. In contrast, the significance of comedy to Sixth Epoch historians goes beyond this level, comparable to the Lancet to doctors and Hello World to programmers, becoming a kind of historical "romance" that is difficult for outsiders to understand.

This strange pursuit of the spirit of comedy can be said to have a long history and has been passed down from generation to generation. When he was studying at Backlund University, Klein had nothing to do and sneaked into the history department's welcome party to kill time. He saw apprentice comedy students, trainee comedy students, comedy scholars, comedy mentors, etc. with round yellow badges sitting below and cheering, and the finale on the stage was a senior with special skills riding a comedy unicycle and throwing and catching a comedy ball while riding.

At the end of the party, the great comedian, the Dean of the School of History, walked onto the stage and spoke passionately to the freshmen who had been tricked into the sinkhole.

"Please be funny! Keep it funny! Be funny!"

The old man was shaky when he walked, but he was energetic on the stage, and his trembling voice was full of power. As a young keyboard warrior who had just reached adulthood, Klein, who claimed to be a history enthusiast, was infected by this passion in the audience, and even had a brief illusion that "the development of Loen history needs my contribution" and "I am the successor of history".

Now that I think about it, I'm lucky I didn't rush into joining the Fifth Epoch History Society called the "Royal Loen Humor Researchers Association". Otherwise, I would have regretted it for the rest of my life.

Funny aside, the Seven of Hearts was now in a state of embarrassment embedded in the rubble. The sudden impact had launched him out like a cannonball, smashing an entire wall of shelves. All the broken and deformed things were smashed to pieces and piled on him.

The explosion happened in an instant. Although everyone was standing together, only the Seven of Hearts, who was responsible for detonating the explosion, was blown away. The other three were about the same distance from the center of the explosion as the Seven of Hearts, but they still stood firmly on the ground.

Looking at the funny pillows piled on the ground that made him laugh, Klein turned his head to Fors, pointed at the funny pillows and said, "Come and step on these."

Fors raised her foot half-believingly and stepped lightly on the funny thing twice. She immediately felt a sense of pressure and friction on her face.

“I suddenly felt as if someone stepped on my face…” Fors concluded, covering her face.

This answer confirmed Klein's guess:

This hilarious pillow, bigger than a laptop, has the power to bounce back attacks!

How you treat him is how he will treat you.

Fors stepped on Funny, so she felt that her face was stepped on for no apparent reason, but there was no foot on her face at that time. Similarly, because the explosion released by the Seven of Hearts blew the Funny pillow away, the Seven of Hearts herself would also suffer the same attack, experience the impact of Funny itself, and be blown away like a pillow.

"Ouch, ouch! What's going on? Why doesn't anyone come to help me? Do you men know how to be gentle and considerate to women?" The Seven of Hearts struggled to climb out of the ruins.

"I believe that women have the same ability as men to save themselves. Recognizing women's power is a sign of respect and courtesy." The adventurer had no intention of helping. "If you find it inconvenient, you can turn back into a man."

"...Do you think I don't want to? It's not so easy to transform in this damn place..."

The Seven of Hearts did not point out that he could not use his extraordinary abilities in this place, but used bland words to cover it up. He crawled out of the ruins mumbling, dusted himself off, and then walked up to the adventurer with a haughty manner, puffed out his chest, and exaggeratedly lifted his proud chest, as if he wanted to express his dissatisfaction by deliberately disgusting the other party.

"Why? Why do you want me to turn back into a man so badly? Are you jealous?"

When two faceless men meet, only the more shameless one can win in the end.

The adventurer suddenly pulled out a gun and pointed it at the Seven of Hearts, but the Seven of Hearts placed her forehead against the tip of the gun and smiled provocatively.

"You won't shoot me because I still have value to you."

boom!

Gunshots suddenly rang out!

Fors turned around in shock, only to find that the bullet had hit the shelf in the distance. A red figure flashed by as the ruins collapsed.

"It seems that our movement has not only yielded extraordinary items, but also the owners of those footprints."