Mysteries: Arcana Wars

"Great! It's settled then!"

Scott patted the wheelchair excitedly.

"Then how about we take turns starting, so that no one gets nothing?"

Klein responded with silence.

The deacon's answer and choice opened Klein's eyes. He couldn't help but wonder, is Mr. Scott really not afraid of leaking confidential information of the Steam Church to others?

Combined with the intelligence Leonard provided, this person probably also possesses a very flexible bottom line of faith. The secrets of the church may be just more valuable bargaining chips for him. Without harming his core interests, he is happy to use these things to exchange for something that is more useful to him than these fragmentary intelligence.

From this perspective, the authenticity of the information obtained from Scott later may also be questionable.

No wonder Leonard gave such an evaluation. After actually meeting him, it is hard not to wonder if this person is about to defect from the church...

In the face of an unknown powerful being, voluntarily seeking greater benefits in this way, is this a display of sincerity in trying to achieve equal exchange, or is it a desperate and crazy gamble?

No matter what, this Scott in front of him would never let himself suffer.

"No words? Then I'll make a wish first?"

The old deacon seized the opportunity without further ado.

"On the day of the Harvest Church bombing, you participated in the battle with the 'bloody killer' Nelson Korodeko... Why were you in that church? Did you deliberately hunt Nelson Korodeko in the church?"

"...No, I didn't plan it in advance, and the church bombing had nothing to do with me. I just happened to be there that day, and someone happened to make a wish for me."

Although I was also the one making the wish.

Putting this question as the first wish made Klein feel a little more favorable towards the old deacon, but it was not enough to affect Klein's overall judgment.

...Just happened to pass by...If what the magician said was true, then he was indeed not involved in the planning of the church bombing, nor did he know about it long ago but did not report it to the official organization, and deliberately delayed the church bombing to conduct a real man's duel...

Do not……

Scott narrowed his eyes in thought.

The battle was too short, even a little sloppy. The red glow that shot down from the sky had obvious malice, as if a distant god had accidentally cast a glance at this place... But if this was to be considered a ritual of divine descent, it would be somewhat inadequate and could be considered an unconventional sacrifice at best.

...No, it doesn't really look like a sacrifice...

Terrorist attacks, explosions, multi-party power struggles, cult rituals...

Too many noisy and confusing elements are brought together, layer upon layer, burying the real purpose in a hidden corner.

...Is it to stir up conflicts among the various forces in Backlund, or is it to steal the collections in the museum in broad daylight?

If it is the latter, the most valuable item in the museum, the [Margaret's Oath], has been inexplicably handed over to the Augustus royal family for safekeeping. What will Nelson's goal be...

Scott closed his eyes and pushed up his glasses. He was quite satisfied with the magician's answer.

"It's your turn to ask."

The magician tipped his hat to Scott.

"Okay, sir. My question is: Are the Mansteins 'time travelers' in the sense of mysticism?"

This question was beyond Scott's expectations. He thought the magician would pay more attention to the church's actions and the secrets of God, but he did not expect that the other party would care more about this kind of secret knowledge. He was suddenly unable to figure out the magician's purpose. The only consolation was that after this contact, the magician was no longer a completely unknown existence to him, and he had some new understandings.

Wait... Perhaps, the Mansteins and the concept of "time traveler" themselves are related to the secrets of God, and they have not discovered it yet?

Thinking of this, Scott's expression restrained a little.

"What a surprise... I didn't expect you to be a fan of the Mansteins..."

"As for this question, I can only say that in the current understanding of our Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, 'travelers' are not just a word of praise for the Mansteins, but a concept with mystical significance."

"At the end of the Fifth Epoch, before the 'End of the World', all the major churches discovered some people. Some of them suddenly changed their personalities, and some suddenly came back to life from certain death... They also had some things in common, such as suddenly mastering some strange languages ​​that had never been recorded before."

"Soon, our church also discovered such people in some newly emerging organizations and associations at the time. Some of these gatherings or groups had arrogant ideas in the society at that time. They were shocking and unorthodox, as if they came from another completely different world. So the church called these people "time travelers."

Long volumes of files emerged in Scott's mind. Everyone has a youthful time. Hundreds of years ago, Scott was also a fanatical fan of the Mansteins. When he had the authority to open these files, he would search for the Mansteins whenever he had time.

In the era when the "travelers" came, the church initially thought that this was a large-scale occult event, or it might have been caused by extraordinary contamination. After all, in the years before the "Doomsday Disaster", extraordinary events increased exponentially. However, when the Steam Church discovered from the intelligence it had obtained that two "victims" who had not joined the organization could communicate fluently in an unknown language that they had suddenly acquired, things were different.

This shows that what the 'victims' are getting is not gibberish, but a mature language that can actually be used for communication, and that they can all be coming from the same place.

Soon, during the interrogation of the two "victims", the church discovered that their descriptions of their "hometown" had many similarities. So the church's title of "time travelers" was fully realized.

Of course, Scott didn't intend to tell Magic so many details.

"These concepts described by people became laughing stocks and strange stories at the time, but in the Sixth Epoch, the church and people gradually discovered that these nonsense of madmen had gradually become reality. Especially at the end of the tenth century of the Sixth Epoch, after people entered the information age, various confirmations emerged one after another."

"So the modern church's understanding of 'time travelers' is that they are unlucky people who, due to some mystical reasons, traveled from the Information Age after the tenth century of the Sixth Age to before the 'end of the world' of the Fifth Age."

"In fact, more than half of these 'travelers' died in the apocalypse. The rest made various contributions to the development of human civilization in the Sixth Epoch, but most of them disappeared in the long river of history for more than a thousand years. Over the past thousand years, the church has also deliberately blocked the news."

"As for the fact that the Mansteins' reputation as 'time travelers' has lasted for so long... it's purely because they were too dazzling in the history of the Sixth Epoch..."