Mysteries: Arcana Wars

"First, I will complete the pathfinding for the outpost. After the outpost is launched, I will stay far away from the space station until the astronauts send me a distress call, and then I will be the first to arrive at the scene to bring the astronauts back.

"Generally speaking, I am the vanguard and the fuse for follow-up. It's a simple job, but in fact it's not that easy."

"The plan is great, I hope the reality won't be too harsh."

Helgi did not comment. He looked at the busy factory in front of him, opened the terminal and issued a few more orders, adjusting the on-site dispatch. It seemed that he was always paying close attention to the rocket factory.

"Go downstairs and find a girl named Hannah. She will give you paper materials about the rocket and the space station. You'd better read them all before going up to the space. Remember to burn them after reading and don't take them out of this workshop."

"It's really chilling. For such a dangerous mission, as an old friend, can't you just give me a verbal blessing first?"

"Me? Bless you? Judging from the current gap in strength, you can still jump around even if I die like a worm. Why should I worry about you? I'm not worthy."

The farewell was veiled in rebuke, but it was not enough to stop Helgi's work.

"Rather than worrying about your safety, I should worry more about Luna's training."

"Tsk, Helgi, I suspect that the humanity in you, a Sequence Three, is lower than that in me, an angel."

Of course, this was just a joke. Valdas complained like this, but he could not feel the dissatisfaction or even resentment flowing into his soul.

Helgi had changed a lot, and his sharpness was a little painful to him. Vardas felt that according to his previous personality, he should now let out all his dissatisfaction, resentment and even hatred, and scold Helgi, who was like a human weapon, and talk about his original intention, ideals, beliefs, morals and so on, doing an old-age version of personality correction therapy.

In fact, the emotions that Vardas had anticipated were as light as the morning dew, floating down and forming thin streams, sliding across his smooth soul, leaving only a moment's moisture before slowly evaporating.

Perhaps, this is divinity.

This venomous and barbed way of speaking, was Helgi deliberately provoking his humanity, or was it just a bad habit formed in decades of hard life? Vardas was not sure, he had not gotten along well with this old friend for too long. After not seeing each other for decades, both of them had changed a lot.

But Vardas knew in his heart that Helgi was still the more humane of the two.

More purely mortal.

"Okay, I surrender. It seems that in your eyes, I am already far inferior to Luna."

Vardas changed the subject, saying that these things could not be imagined. He raised his hands in surrender to Helgi.

"After returning to Abraham, I went to talk to Luna again."

"Then?"

"You're right, I'm still disappointed in her."

Helgi did not answer.

When Luna just escaped from Abraham, Helgi immediately sent a message to Vardas, asking him to pay attention to the girl's whereabouts.

This news was like a shot of adrenaline for Vardas.

He seemed to see another self in this girl named Luna, as if he felt that his spirit of rebellion and exploration had finally found a successor in Abraham, a rising star who was as courageous, capable, and tasteful as him, who was unwilling to be bound and wanted to freely explore the unknown of the starry sky.

Therefore, when Luna was captured in the dungeon, Vardas talked to Luna as soon as possible, wanting to recruit this outstanding young man into the gang, but was poured a bucket of cold water by Luna's true character and experience.

"But why is she... such a person?"

Vardas sighed.

"I told you a long time ago that she is not an idealist, she is just a coward."

Helgi had already guessed Vardas’s reaction.

“But I’m curious, why are you so determined that Luna will be your companion?

"Is it because of your similar experience of defection? If you only use such superficial characteristics to distinguish between friends and enemies, then I will start to doubt how you have survived from the stars to the present day."

"Of course it's not just because of this! It's also because..."

Vardas paused.

“Divination.

“My divination and astrology both tell me that she will be a great astronaut, she will create a legend among the stars and will be the next rising star.

"Divination, astrology, spiritual intuition, her experience and background information, my experience and desire to explore the stars...

“Damn…Okay, I admit that I was indeed led into a ditch by some of my irrational obsessions, and projected too many inappropriate fantasies on others.

"But you have to understand. After all, I am now a Sequence 2 angel. I used to be a proper human being, not a mythical creature. I must have some excessive obsessions to anchor my humanity in the divine impact of Beyonder characteristics."

Helgi finally stopped what he was doing and turned to look at Vardas, his eyes filled with some vague emotions, it was hard to tell whether it was some kind of compassion or envy.

"Has anyone ever told you that you are actually a very selfish person, Vardas?"

"No, but I have it now," he shrugged.

"Now I'm telling you again, remember next time, don't have too many unrealistic expectations of others."

Helgi wiped his hands that were operating the machine with a handkerchief expressionlessly, then took the gold brooch inlaid with gorgeous opal from Vardas' chest and pinned it on his own pocket, and stuffed the old handkerchief stained black by oil and dust into Vardas' expensive suit.

"including me."

"Thank you for your teaching, Mr. Helgi. If you had told me all these life philosophies earlier, I wouldn't have taken so many detours and would have been promoted to Sequence 2 long ago."

Whether it was an exquisite opal or a handmade high-end dress, they were all priceless collectibles in the Backlund market. To Vardas, who was at the top of the Abraham family, they were just daily necessities, so he didn't care.

"But you didn't tell me that Luna is an immature child who can only escape from reality and evade responsibilities! How can this be of any use to our plan..."

"Vardas, I won't allow you to say that about her."

Helgi interrupted the other person's complaints, his deep eyes suddenly becoming sharp.

"Everyone has unique value in Abraham. What we need to do is to use them in the right place."

"And right now, there's no better consumable for this pit than Luna, is there?"

Vardas did not stand up, but just looked up and met Heerji's eyes.