Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Backlund is 648 meters underground.

Underground city water channel.

Gloria, wrapped in a black coat, walked silently in the dark street.

Today, Gloria plays the role of Field Moretti. According to the assigned mission objectives, she will launch a raid here. In the Comet Squad, all the clearing plans that require strong force are completed by Gloria and her fire stick.

Not long ago, Gloria received a message from Scott, who handed over a case of Abraham's murder to the Church of Night. The Church of Night and the Church of Steam had a common interest in helping Abraham fight the assassin. So the case naturally fell into the hands of Gloria and her Comet Squad.

But what concerned Gloria most was the letter from Scott.

[Clipping, Seven, Spell]

These words were written in the sparks of the pump and sandwiched in Osborne's snacks. Osborne had the habit of going to St. Julie's Square for coffee after get off work, but not every day. When Osborne came to the Star Mom Coffee Shop next to St. Julie's Square as usual, he would habitually call Gloria to ask if she wanted to have afternoon tea. As long as Gloria agreed, he would take out some snacks from his pocket as usual and stuff them with coffee for his grandmother. The two usually sat by the Yennefer Fountain in the square, and this little note also flowed into Gloria's hands so secretly.

As usual, she would put the note into the coffee cup after reading it, and then throw it into the fountain, watching the evidence turn into a puff of black smoke and disappear into the air. Throwing coffee cups into the fountain of Yennefer was something that the young people of St. Julie's Church had been doing secretly. Don't think that she, the bishop, didn't know. It was just that young people could throw garbage together, but Gloria had to do it quietly, and she couldn't let the subordinates see their big boss leading the fun.

According to the information sent by the Steam Church, Gloria quickly found the clippings. The pieces of paper used to make the clippings were re-edited and sorted according to their sources. Among them, there was a pile of paper with seven letters in inconsistent capitalization.

【fTMDelt】

And for both of them, there is only one spell that is truly unsolvable.

【Field Moretti】

This is a guess that seems to have no basis at all. There are many combinations of seven letters, not to mention adding extra letters here to sort them. These are just a few letters, and they have infinite possibilities and can form an infinite number of names.

But when Gloria first saw the letters, the first name that popped into her mind was this.

【Spell】

It was difficult to explain this very firm association. Was it a fixed mindset caused by the high-pressure work during this period, or was there some unknown mysterious force at work in secret? From the silent pump sparks to the silent St. Julie's Church, Gloria thought that this line of intelligence was fragile but reliable.

It's like repeating a word a hundred times to a potted plant, and you'll think of that word wherever you see that potted plant. To people who often work in front of a computer, a piece of chocolate is more like a computer keyboard than a washboard. From the secret talks with Scott to the changes in the missions of the Comet team in daily work, the name "Field Moretti" has left a deep impression on Gloria's mind. No matter which aspect, this name is now very sensitive to Gloria, so much so that as long as she sees a few similar letters, she can't help but think of that weird name.

…So, is this why the old man called it a [spell]?

Maybe it was because the spiritual intuition that was not functioning properly in St. Julie's Church could not give the correct answer. When Gloria tried to walk out of the church square, she recalled the clipping, and the first name that came to her mind was still this name. But she still did not feel some of her spiritual fluctuations.

Perhaps spiritual intuition also gave the same answer, or perhaps this spell can work even without any spirituality. The appearance of these letters alone can cause the two saints to have unwarranted associations, because in the past period of time, they have been affected by various events and their thinking has been affected. Some factors have silently sprouted in their minds.

...What a terrible spell...

If you resist it, you can't solve the problem; if you submit to it, you will only get deeper and deeper.

Replaying the secret conversation with Scott, Gloria chose to obey the guidance of the [spell].

So if we think about [Field Moretti] as a clue... Under the operation of the [Comet] team, [Field Moretti] is active in the underground city. Does this mean that the person behind the series of assassinations against Abraham is entrenched in the underground city?

Before the action, Gloria even felt that her inference was absurd, without any evidence, and even the logic was not strict. But after repeated consideration, she decided to order the Comet team to investigate the case that Scott had handed over in the underground city.

Her doubts vanished in the following time. With the intelligence sent by the Comet Team, they came into contact with some bounty information about the Abraham Group as assassins, and used this to search and investigate, and finally some valuable intelligence gathered in Gloria's hands.

Through a series of reconnaissance and extraordinary means, Gloria focused all the clues on one name.

Underground city water channel.

Too many questions arose from the dense clues and converged on this one location. At the same time, the more questions there were, the more dangerous the environment became. After a series of assessments, Gloria decided to go it alone.

Therefore, today Gloria will play the role of a perverted killer and explore the underground city water channel. If the guess is correct, Gloria will launch a surprise attack.

For an underground city of this depth, the residents of the water channel seemed a bit crowded. This large space was said to be part of Backlund's sewage system in the previous electrical era, and it [settled] here hundreds of years ago. Gloria took a deep breath, and fine dust and thick water vapor rushed into her nose. The air in the water channel was more humid than she had imagined, which might be because there was groundwater surging around this underground city.

Although there is no sunrise or sunset in the underground city, three or four in the morning is still the time when there are the least people on the streets. Gloria began to explore this dilapidated underground city at this time.

With another deep breath, a faint fragrance slipped into Gloria's nose. The smell was too subtle, like gently tickling the tip of an elephant's foot with a strand of hair, but Gloria still caught it because the smell was too familiar.

Gloria looked back and saw an old stone tablet with the symbol of the Goddess of Night carved on it and some scattered tributes placed underneath it.

A withering moon flower lies quietly.