Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Luna was stunned for a moment.

A large number of short messages from her sister Mia flashed before her eyes. Luna was confused at first, then shocked, then angry, and finally a strong sadness and helplessness swept over her.

"what--!!!!"

She hugged Rad and screamed heartbreakingly into the depths of the well.

"what--!!!"

Luna, oh Luna, look what you have done! ?

Who is standing in front of you and the starry sky?

It’s the father! It’s the mother! It’s the generations of predecessors! It’s the colleagues who work day and night!

She is your sister who escaped her fate and willingly jumped into the mire again!!

"what--!!"

Thousands of words surged in Luna's chaotic mind, but she couldn't say a word and could only vent. Her precarious mental state gave the extraordinary pollution attached to her soul an opportunity to further invade and wreak havoc, taking the opportunity to attack Luna's mental defenses, causing her sanity to slide towards the edge of collapse.

Why? Why?

Why do we have to go to that damn starry sky?

Why do you have to push me and take away everything from me?

...Why...I can't...grasp anything...

“Ancestors… Ancestors! I beg you! I beg you! Save me!!”

Luna was panicking and prayed loudly to the legendary ancestor Bethel.

But as a defector, will my ancestors really... protect me?

Contradictory thoughts bubble up continuously like methane from a quagmire.

In the empty corridor, loud roars echoed between the walls, and explosions of varying sizes rang out up and down the shaft.

Concrete, wooden slabs, blocks of earth, crumbling from high above, falling. Exiles shouting, fighting, wailing, desperate dungeon dwellers, falling. Burning torches, opened bombs, spent guns, broken rail cars, falling.

Fall, fall, fall.

Everything in the underground city was falling down along the well.

Luna, who had shouted herself hoarse, looked up blankly. Clear, loud, poor, rich, weak, determined, the obsession of the past, the struggle of the present, the pursuit of the future... all the chaos and struggles were falling downwards.

Red rain, blue rain, black rain, carrying her despair and paleness downwards, falling relentlessly, just like everything in this city, it will eventually fall endlessly along Backlund's track.

Luna closed her eyes gently.

The thoughts in my mind are more chaotic than ever before.

【get away】.

This idea expanded more than ever before. She wanted to take Rad away from this nightmare, away from thinking and decision-making, away from sacrifice and responsibility, away from family and poverty, away from fate and ideals.

Escape from the past, escape from the present, escape from the future.

No matter who it is... no matter who it is... please... take me away!!

Take me away from this damn world! !

"Help me!"

She yelled at the collapsing sky.

But then, a beam of dazzling white light immediately hit her eyes. The strong light, with a surge of spirituality, suppressed Luna's actions without rejection.

As the deafening engine sound gradually approached, a mechanical creation with brilliant light came from bottom to top, against the rain of the collapsing world, and came to her side. The dazzling white light seemed to be the opponent's invincible sacred armor.

"Hey, cutie! What are you doing here by yourself?"

Luna tried to see through her fingers. The mechanical monster stopped steadily beside the platform. Someone waved at her in the sacred light, and then walked towards her in the dazzling white light.

Shining Tesla and Fors Wall, who were passing by, lent her a helping hand.

"Wow, Ms. Poet, this is getting interesting! That guy might be Abraham's man!"

The identification ability from the Path of the Universalist has allowed Shining to see clues from Luna's cloak, and she looked Luna up and down with interest.

"Wow, it's rare to see Abraham in a place like this. Are you some runaway girl? Haha! That's interesting!"

Shining danced briskly around Luna, speaking frivolously with a hint of warning, while Fors was curled up on the machine, carefully sticking her head out.

Crazy, sharp laughter broke out in Luna's ears, bringing back some of her sanity.

"Where...where are you from?"

"We? Oh! Where else? From underground, of course! My little cutie!"

Recalling the thrilling journey, Fors was still in shock. Not long after they set out, the exiles' riot began. She saw with her own eyes that various exiles and underground city residents fled to the well for various reasons, and finally screamed and jumped from the well's hole, falling into a pulp on an unknown platform.

Before setting off, Fors thought that Shining would drive the machine and shuttle between the gap between the platform and the seal, but she didn't expect Shining to take her off vertically and rush straight to the surface. He smashed everything that could be broken, and used the [key] to open the door and pass through anything that couldn't be broken. It was simple and unpretentious.

Yes, the [Key]. Before Shining made this transporter, he took great pains to collect four [Bright Eggs] from all over the place, connected the four balls together, and made an extraordinary item that could seal the door above the well. It was also during the conversation before departure that Fors learned that the official name of these small balls was [Bright Eggs].

When Fors truly realized that there was an unclear relationship between herself, the Bright Egg, and Abraham, she was almost sublimated. Numbness and fear could no longer keep up with the absurd changes in reality. She just felt that this major conjecture was like a child learning that the family would have rice today on a lazy afternoon, and there was no ripple in her heart.

But when Fors saw Shining string the Bright Eggs together to make the extraordinary item [Key], he still felt a little sick to his stomach, as if he had cut off two spoons to light an oil lamp, and then he had to carry the oil lamp around looking for a toilet.

"So, cutie, you're asking for help, do you need any help?"

"Take me away!"

Luna shouted subconsciously, looking embarrassed.

"Take me with you and run away! Please! We can go anywhere!"

"Oops! Sorry! That doesn't work."

Shining pulled out a huge wrench and weighed it in his hand.

"We have our own things to do and can't take you with us, but it's easy to find you something useful."

With that, Shining climbed onto the transport plane, found a tattered rail car hanging on the roof, and took it down.

The car crashed into their machinery and was instantly destroyed. However, with the superb repair ability of the Shining Path and the universal extraordinary item [Repair Wrench], repairing such a rail car was no problem.

Under the white light, Luna couldn't see their faces clearly. She was about to ask something when she felt Rad in her arms twitching slightly.

"……elder sister……"

A faint glimmer of life sprouted in Rad's eyes.

"……I was wrong……"

The boy moved his lips.

"...I don't want to die..."

What was left of his soul was struggling stubbornly, like a poor man dragging only half of his bloody body to climb out on the rugged cliffs. The few words he squeezed out with all his might were the bloodstains he left on the boulders.

"……sorry……"

But the frail boy was doomed to be unable to resist the oppression of the higher-level beings. The huge waves that covered the sky eventually swallowed up the poor man who was lingering on, and the last fragment of his soul completely turned into part of the vast ocean.

The last glimmer of life was fleeting, and extreme anger immediately ignited Rad's eyes.

“…Why…Why…Why…”

The tiny body sealed by the cloak was filled with too much anger that did not belong to him, but because of the loss of control of his body and the confinement of his spirit, he was unable to vent his anger and could only scream vaguely with his dislocated jaw.

"If I were you, I'd throw him down the well right now."

Shining stood behind Luna at some point.

"No matter how good a person he was before, he is no longer the person you knew.

"He has been completely overwhelmed by the power of the Exiles and has become one with them.

“He’s becoming Alan Friedman and he’s going to be Alan Friedman.

“Now, he has become a part of Alan Friedman, an avatar, a monitor, and he will faithfully carry out the will of Alan Friedman, like an extension of his hands.

"He is like a camera. If you keep him by your side, you will undoubtedly broadcast all your actions and intelligence to Alan Friedman. He will have a clear view of your plans and identity.

“Even if he calls out to you, asks you for help, and pleads with you in the same tone as before, he is no longer the person you knew. He is just a poor imitation of the so-called great being by the tiny life, deceiving you to keep his eyes by your side.

"After all, you are from — that — big — family! Hahahaha!"

The Shining's crazy laugh now sounds very cold.

"You just said...Him?"

Fors raised his hand weakly.

"Haha, who knows?"

Shining laughed.

"Don't you think this exile riot is weird? Is it really just Alan Friedman who is standing behind these crazy people who are smashing, looting and burning?"

"Are you saying that there is a great being behind this?"

Fors shuddered.

"Miss Poet, you asked a good question! But - you ask me, who should I ask? So I said, who knows?

"Hahaha, whoever wants to know can go, what does this have to do with me? What does it have to do with me?

"Anyway, after tonight, the world exploding has nothing to do with me!"

She laughed so hard that she fell backwards, and she pushed the track car creaking over.

"Okay, take it."

She patted the large sheet of metal that was the railcar.

"See the two tracks next to the well? They're still usable. Just pick one and follow it.

"Since you are from that family, I assume that you have the ability to open the door above the upper and lower seals of the [Earth Well]."

Shining said as he looked up.

"The seal above is relatively close to the ground and has been severely eroded. Generally, it should be no problem to open the door upwards, but it is not recommended that you go all the way to the top. When you reach a similar depth, leave the [underground well], otherwise you will be in big trouble.

"As for going down... I don't recommend it. The seal below is much stronger than you think. On the one hand, I don't know your ability, how strong the seal is that can open the door, and I don't know how far you can run down..."

"down!"

Luna interrupted immediately.

"I want to go down! I want to escape! I want to escape!!"

She shouted incoherently.

"Four thousand meters. This is the distance I feel is safe."

Shining installed the repaired rail car on the track of the wall of the [underground well] while muttering to himself, like a plumber singing some labor songs.

“Under this, not quite sure what you’re going to run into.

“Perhaps it’s a high-level seal that you can’t open at all, or perhaps it’s something bizarre and terrifying that you’ve never seen before and is beyond your understanding.

"Haha, who knows?"

With the modification of Shining's extraordinary ability, the tattered rail car has been reassembled into another abstract and distorted appearance. People who don't know it at first glance would never think it is a rail car. But it has strong enough performance, not only can it firmly grasp the rails in all directions, but also can adjust the position of the carriage and wheels according to the direction of travel, which is very suitable for an adventure without a destination.

Watching Luna tremblingly board the rail car, Fors couldn't help but shout.

"Miss, I wish you all the best!"

Luna was stunned for a moment, and suddenly tears moistened her eyes again. Under the strong light of the searchlight, she couldn't see the face of the person opposite her, but she felt that the blessing voice was particularly familiar.

"Thank you, Miss Poet. Could you tell me your names?"

"Bessie! Bessie Sigurdson!"

Fors called out in the holy white light, her face blurred, only one name passed through the noisy rain of world collapse and reached Luna.

"That's my name! Bessie Sigurdson!"

"Then I bless you too! Miss Bessie Sigurdson!"

"Forget it, there's no point in knowing my name."

Shining shrugged nonchalantly.

"My dear, I have only one last piece of advice for you."

She pointed to the person in Luna's arms.

"let it go."

Luna was stunned. She thought she would cry, get angry, and complain about the other party's cruel advice. But in the end, there was nothing but empty numbness.

She took one last look at the angry eyes of the man in her arms and tried to fix his dislocated jaw.

"I curse you! Damn nobles! Damn rich people! Damn Backlund termites!"

Rad, who regained his speech, shouted heartbreakingly, then suddenly fell silent and looked at Luna with turbid eyes.

"... Save me... I don't want to die... Please... I'm sorry..."

Luna stared blankly at the distant darkness below the well, and blankly shook off the cloak that bound her.

The cloth was pulled away from the body, and Rad fell into the well.

The distant death never returns, and not even the echo of its fall can reach Luna's platform.

Whether it was the freedom she longed for, her beloved parents and sister, or just a boy she met by chance, all slipped away from her hands.

She couldn't keep anything.