Mysteries: Arcana Wars

[Mad Hatter], like [Null Match], can be used normally in the safe house apartment!

Klein then tested several other extraordinary items he brought out from the furniture store, and they all worked normally in the apartment.

In other words, these extraordinary items are all related to the Void Matches.

The Moretti family intervenes in an extraordinary disaster at the furniture city!

Suddenly everything made sense.

An extraordinary disaster occurred in the Furniture City, and then the descendants of the Moretti family left spirituality in the Furniture City. This force suppressed the escape and evolution of pollution, and naturally bred a series of seals.

The power of suppressing pollution should be the same as the power of blessing the safe house apartment. They both have a strong spiritual silencing effect. But compared with the design of the safe house, the spirituality of the silent furniture city seems a bit unrefined. The high concentration of spirituality still breeds a series of strange seals. These seals have more or less negative effects of reducing the extraordinary power of the user and disturbing the user's spirituality.

Klein initially thought that the silencing effect of the safe house came from the natural suppression of the high-level spirituality, and that the [Void Match] might be related to his own gray fog and was some kind of transformation. However, this series of sealed objects that came from this suppressive force all had some kind of negative effect, which overturned Klein's vague inference.

This characteristic should not be confused with the symbol of the Three Paths of Secrets. It should be a power with a unique symbol. Even though they look so similar - even though this symbol can hide behind any authority that Klein knows.

The horrible truth suddenly appeared before Klein's eyes:

An unknown power came to bear upon the Moretti family.

【nothingness】

Klein stared at the box of matches.

This guess was a bit absurd, and he instinctively wanted to deny it. Countless pieces of evidence flashed through his mind, trying to disprove this guess. This made Klein's thoughts waver.

Maybe this is my own gray fog in a different form? Maybe this black smoke-like form is a lie I made up to deceive other gods?

Klein suddenly became anxious. He stood up and walked around the room, taking out the pocket watch Melissa gave him from time to time to check. But the pocket watch always stopped at twelve o'clock, indicating that Klein had no illusions in his current senses. Everything he saw and heard was real.

He really wanted to meet Melissa now. Regardless of whether she was a false illusion or the real Melissa, Klein now had a lot of questions to ask. Whether it was a lie or the truth, the more Melissa said, the more information Klein had to analyze. As long as there was enough information, he could tell the truth from the false.

The computer in the room beeped slightly. Klein was stunned for a moment, stopped scratching his head, and sat back at his desk.

My emotional reaction to this matter...is it a bit too much?

He recalled that before he fell asleep in Utopia in the Fifth Epoch, he was already an angel with calm emotions and clear thinking. No matter how many accidents happened, he was a mythical creature who could calmly make on-the-spot judgments, unlike now, even if he was not caught by hallucinations, he might suddenly have a flash of confusion in emotions and thinking.

...Perhaps the madness of the Sixth Epoch is more serious than I imagined. Even if I start over as planned, I still cannot cleanse myself of my madness and the remaining pollution...

……pollute……

This thought once again came back to Klein's mind. He thought more than once that his madness came from the destruction of his spirit by his Beyonder characteristics and the pollution from other aspects.

If I have been polluted, then are my occasional confused thoughts also the result of madness and pollution?

His thoughts seemed to be in a mess again. Klein simply picked up a pen and started writing sentences on paper, trying to sort out his thoughts in this way.

[Nothingness], [Nothingness Smoke], [Nothingness Matches], safe house, extraordinary silence, disordered thinking, illusions invading reality...

"Where does the extraordinary silence of St. Julie's Church come from? It's because of the Yennefer Fountain in the square and the smoke and dust in the fountain, which is the one you used to light the hotel last time... Where did it come from? Didn't you give it to our Church of the Night? This is the deal between you and the goddess, and you didn't tell me in detail back then!"

During a meeting in the apartment after the hotel incident, Klein asked Leonard this question in detail, and Leonard answered like this.

"This thing is very useful. You must have already dealt with these [Void Dust]. But in any case, St. Julie's Church still experienced serious extraordinary pollution during some extraordinary operations. After staying in St. Julie's Church for more than a month, these red gloves all showed disorientation, limb asymmetry, severe auditory and visual hallucinations, confused thinking, distorted logic, and even cognitive impairment. However, these symptoms can be relieved by themselves in places far away from St. Julie's Church and its square. The top leaders of our Church of Darkness believe that this is a symptom of being contaminated by [Void Dust].

“It sounds serious, but since most of us work in shifts, the pollution accumulated during the day can be cleared by a normal employee taking a nap, so these serious pollution cases are actually relatively rare. They are only concentrated in some large-scale extraordinary confrontations, and there is no problem with daily activities.

"Interestingly, in my current memory, the first and most serious case of [Void Dust] pollution recorded by the Church of Evernight was Gloria Mitchell. She fell into the fountain in the square during [Operation Fireworks] three hundred years ago. When everyone thought she was going to be swallowed by [Void Dust], she miraculously floated up from it holding the seal.

"She completely lost the ability to move independently within the first week. Her sense of direction and coordination were completely gone, and she could only move around in a wheelchair. When we thought she could stop taking the medicine and rest, Gloria fell into severe hallucinations in the second week and completely lost her perception of reality. We had to restrain Gloria, who was able to run around, until a month after being contaminated, when she finally returned to reality."

This situation...isn't it just like being entangled in an illusion?

Pollution, madness, pollution, nothingness, pollution, pollution...

Klein fiercely drew a heavy black line under the sentence and then slammed the pen on the glass table.

"The descendants of the Moretti family have been contaminated by the [Void]!"

He felt as if his hands were shaking.