Mysteries: Arcana Wars

After returning from the furniture store, Klein and his companions planned to recuperate for a while at the Earthworm Island Bar in Evernight Harbor. This time, they brought back a lot of extraordinary items from the furniture store, which enriched Klein's equipment library and even gave him a sense of security as he was fully armed.

Especially the Mad Hatter, which can produce extraordinary items and change its form, which is very consistent with the style of a fortune teller. Klein has replaced his ordinary short top hat with it.

After many tests, Klein finally figured out the ability of this hat. The user can randomly take out a... uh... "weapon" from the hat that can exist outside the hat for five minutes. Although these weapons look different, they operate according to the same rules. Each weapon will randomly cause one of the five negative effects: vomiting, dizziness, sensory dislocation, labor pain, and cognitive impairment. Whenever it hits the opponent, these negative effects will take effect on the hitter and last for five minutes. Only one weapon taken out of the hat can exist at the same time, and only after the existing weapon disappears can the weapon and effect be refreshed from the hat.

Klein had also figured out the functions of some other extraordinary items.

Although these things are really... a bit tasteless...

Klein checked these new items one by one and found that they still worked well outside the furniture city, and there was no difference from inside the furniture city. However, most of the extraordinary items he obtained this time also needed contact to take effect.

...But which fortune teller would engage in close combat with the enemy?

However, the negative effects of these extraordinary items are surprisingly uniform. They will more or less weaken the spirituality of the carrier and weaken the extraordinary ability of the carrier to a certain extent. When Leonard holds Klein's [Sleeping Baseball Bat], the "sleep" and "fear" radiating from him will decrease, and his perception and influence on the surrounding creatures will decrease. This degree of weakening is nothing to Leonard now, and it does not affect daily combat. If these extraordinary items are used, the user will be subject to a stronger negative effect, and the user's spirituality will be further suppressed in a short period of time. For example, after Leonard hypnotized a gangster who was looking for trouble with the [Sleeping Baseball Bat], he felt the rapid shrinkage of his spiritual intuition in the next ten minutes, until this period of time passed, and the negative effect returned to normal again.

Klein, on the other hand, felt that he was not affected by these negative effects at all. It seemed that the negative effects of these things were not very noticeable to him.

Another more troublesome thing is that these gadgets look fragmented and like magician's tricks, but Klein cannot explore their specific functions through divination. He can only rely on randomly selecting lucky robbers on the road to experiment with their effects.

In other words, these little gadgets probably have some anti-divination and anti-prophecy effects.

...This is all against divination and prophecy, which really has a sense of misplaced absurdity.

But what Klein was more concerned about was the slender rib they brought from the furniture store.

This deformed rib was obviously dropped from the skeleton monster. The exile at that time used this rib to break one leg of the Thinker's Chair with just one blow. After escaping from the furniture city, this rib became very quiet, with no abilities or negative effects.

Unlike other gadgets that completely disappeared from his spiritual intuition, Klein's spiritual intuition could clearly outline the shape of this rib, and he could feel that it was just an ordinary human rib that was contaminated and twisted. It had no special abilities, but was definitely a dangerous existence, with residual connections to the pollution of the gods outside the starry sky.

Even if he moved it to the safe house in the apartment and asked the secret doll to do divination, Klein could feel the strong danger on it. He stopped immediately after he only divined some details of the accident of [Rupert-CO095] and the events after the fall of the furniture city. Klein clearly remembered that when he just woke up, he also wanted to divine who was the person or god behind the scenes who turned the bodyguard into a killer, but Melissa jumped out to stop him. Even in the safe house, don't take the obviously suspicious [token] to divine some evil god.

His spiritual intuition moved slightly, and Klein immediately used the secret doll to transfer all the billboard fragments and black boxes in his hand to the apartment safe house on the surface. Then there was a knock on the door, and Fors walked in. She had just gone downstairs to buy some supplies at the bar.

"Mr. Gehrman, can I ask a few questions?" After two days of holding it in, Fors couldn't help but ask, "What exactly is the star bug you mentioned before? How did it crawl onto my body? What should I do now? Is that bug poisonous?"

The previous discussion between the adventurer and the detective was too serious. In that atmosphere, Fors was confused and did not dare to interrupt. She just felt creepy. Something about a mysterious star worm from underground drilling into its body, and something about how fortunately it survived the journey through the star realm, Fors felt as if there were bugs crawling all over her body.

"Nothing, don't worry about it, it's just a kind of insect with spirituality." The adventurer replied calmly, without stopping to arrange his weapons, as if he was just going to swat a few flies to death. "Remember to swat them to death if you encounter them next time, you can sell them for money."

Hiss, why does this make me feel creepy...

"There is one more thing. Mr. Leonard and I have been wandering here, but we still haven't found Sota or the Seven of Hearts." Thinking of these two "friends" who had only met once and had experienced life and death together, Fors felt a little lonely and worried. "Did they fall behind? Was it... that I was in that... spiritual world or something... and ran too fast? Is this... my fault? Sorry..."

"It's not your fault. The spirit world is treacherous and unpredictable. Life and death are determined by fate. Everyone depends on their own abilities. If they die there, it's just bad luck."

As if feeling that these words were a bit heavy for Fors, the adventurer added.

"They fell behind. Maybe they just got lost, or teleported to some other place. The spirit world is a place where it's easy for some people to get lost, but at least the Seven of Hearts shouldn't die that easily."

Thinking back to the stacks of fancy cards in the fortune teller's hand, which had such a rich variety of physical properties, Klein didn't believe that there was no [Hole Card] of the Seven of Hearts among these "Seven of Hearts".

But the West Road pipe did end up staying with Klein.

It was not until they returned to the City of Eternal Night and Leonard took out his pipe to play with it and study it that they realized that this long pipe could actually silence extraordinary abilities.

No wonder such a thoughtful and thoughtful person didn't use a secret doll but his real body to come to the Cotton Alley Exchange. No wonder he refused to change back to a more familiar male image even after encountering a big explosion. He even gave me a gloating expression as if he was seeing a fool when he saw me holding the long pipe...

So you, the unlucky guy, were silenced before you even fell down from the furniture store!

To Klein's surprise, this extraordinary silence didn't seem to work on him either. In the end, Klein decided to keep the long pipe with him. Leonard had said that things from the mysterious Western Continent were always rare in the Underground City. The curiosity and the law that things are more valuable when they are scarce made the people in the Underground City very interested in the goods from the Western Continent.

It’s better to keep him around, just in case you can take advantage of it and trick him someday, right?