Mysteries: Arcana Wars

After two hours of fine sleep, Leonard got up full of energy.

Even though Leonard doesn't need sleep at all according to his current status, he will still firmly guarantee two hours of sleep every day, preferably at home.

This is a habit he has cultivated over more than a thousand years, one of the few lingering memories of the past.

"Good morning, old man!"

Pales, who was about to go out to buy groceries, paused.

"Why do you get up so early this week? I'm not used to it."

"Oh, you're a sleepless person! But I'm quite surprised that you insisted on coming back to sleep these few days?"

Pales, who was sitting at the dining table, looked up at Leonard from behind the newspaper, then pointed at the table, indicating that breakfast was ready and that they had both finished eating.

"Oh, right! Remember to bring me a copy of The Moon, Steam Daily, Tussock Daily, and Backlund Post every day!"

Pales, who was carrying a basket at the door, walked away without looking back, leaving Leonard and Pales staring at each other at the dining table.

After a showdown, Pales went all out.

In the past few days, Leonard has fully demonstrated the diligent and hardworking style of the Church of Night. During the day, he and Klein suffered the beatings of life at the police station. At night, he reports to the Church of Night in his dreams. Under the command of his old subordinates and new superiors, he conducts training and investigation tasks. From time to time, he receives a call from the police station to go on emergency duty. It is not easy to maintain two hours of exquisite sleep.

Looking at the meat porridge in front of him that was just the right temperature, Leonard suddenly felt it was a bit absurd.

Before, Pales raised Leonard as an ordinary child and did not want him to know any knowledge of the occult, so Pales had been hiding the existence of the extraordinary world from Leonard. Every day before Leonard got up, he would use his extraordinary abilities to solve various affairs, giving him a reliable but not very kind impression.

But now that the two have come to a showdown, these daily routines have become unnecessary. The two still subconsciously maintain the habits of three meals a day and sleeping. I don't know if it's because habits are hard to change over the years, or if the two of them have a tacit understanding of some things, which makes Leonard even feel like he is playing house.

There were still many things to do today, and they had to race against time to avoid unexpected accidents. Leonard picked up the bowl and gobbled it up.

"Old man, you should be careful these days. Even if you go out to buy groceries, you should be careful to hide. Backlund has not been peaceful recently. I think something big is going to happen, but I can't see what it is yet."

"Hmm? Do you think you care about me?"

Pales looked a little stunned.

"Uh... sort of? What's wrong?" Leonard was a little stunned.

"You never said anything like this to me before this so-called 'awakening'."

Leonard chewed the porridge carefully, and suddenly realized that it seemed to be true.

Before he recovered his memory, he never had much conversation with Pales in the morning, or any communication at all throughout the day.

In most cases, I would go downstairs alone, eat, and then go to school or work.

When did my grandfather get up to cook? What did he do at home during the day? What time did he go to bed at night? What did he like and what did he dislike... I didn't know anything before.

In other words, I never cared about it, as if this information from other people was never necessary.

Leonard then realized that he was a complete island before he "awoke".

At the same time, Pales is not an ordinary old man. As a parent, after failing to change his child, he relaxed and let his child grow up freely. After all, he can only live for a hundred years at most, and it will pass in the blink of an eye...

"Uh... old man, why did you buy other newspapers today?" Leonard tried to recall, "You don't read these newspapers often?"

"Didn't you say that something big was coming? In this situation, shouldn't I be actively collecting information to protect myself?" Pales patted the newspaper, "Now you're dragging me along, making it even harder for me to move around in the dark."

The culprit, Leonard, was just eating.

"Here, this is for you. You should be able to use it, right?"

Leonard looked up and saw a rectangular talisman that sparkled with diamonds.

[Yesterday's reappearance]!!

"Your... uh... new assistant gave you a 'Spirit Worm' last time, but we lost contact due to the church explosion. Do you remember?"

"...I remember now. This is what happened." Leonard picked up the talisman and examined it carefully. "Is this talisman using the spirit worm?"

"Yes, I took measures before the bug got out of control... but it couldn't be wasted, so I just made it into a spell."

"then you……"

"Can't I just use my own power?"

"...Yeah, I didn't react..."

"Anyway, I can't and don't want to get involved in your mess. If Hei Ye finds my traces in your mess, we will all be in trouble."

"And as for all your shit, unless I show up in person, just hanging two Time Worms on you is just like carrying an extra cell phone..."

Palles paused.

"Although this spell is for you to deal with emergencies, I really don't want you to use it, because I don't know what will happen if you use it."

"More importantly, your new assistant must not use 'Yesterday Again'."

"'Yesterday Reappears'... Isn't it just borrowing strength from your past self..."

Leonard muttered to himself, then realized the problem.

"Yes, but the question is, from which 'history' are you borrowing your strength?"

Pales' expression became serious and he took out a paper tube from the bathroom, which looked like the core of a toilet paper roll.

"In your perception, there is a real history."

"In this true history, there is a Leonard Mitchell from the end of the Fifth Age."

Pales put his fingers inside the roll of paper and tapped them twice.

"But this history has been 'dumbed down'."

He reached out his hand again and stroked the outside of the paper tube.

"So, in this period of history, there was no monster over a thousand years old. Leonard Mitchell was just a detective in his twenties. In the history of his existence of more than 20 years, his peak level was only a bare status and extraordinary abilities that were slightly stronger than ordinary demigods. At most, he could drain his spiritual power and lose the abilities of two or three angels before he could retire gloriously."

"However, 'history' cannot be changed. This is just a trick. The so-called 'revision' of history is nothing more than putting a deceptive sticker on the original paper shell. It cannot substantially change its nature and results. The paper shell is still the paper shell. What was supposed to happen has happened after all."

“But for most people, this ‘fooled’ history is the real history in their cognition, so they don’t have the ability to see through the truth and can’t remove the stickers on the paper. Under the guidance of [Yesterday Reappears], they can find the power in the ‘fooled’ history.”

"The spirit world, the underworld, the living world... everything is based on this paper shell with stickers on it, operating day after day."

"But you are different now, because after entering the paper tube of history, you know what is hidden under the sticker. In other words, you have the possibility to uncover this 'sticker'."

"Then the two histories will cause confusion in your cognition and consciousness."

"What history are you heading to? Which sticker are you peeling off? If you want to gain high-level power from the covered-up past, will you really not cause mistakes and chaos by bringing back the truth that conflicts with the present world?"

Leonard's face turned pale.

"In the ten minutes when you return to your angelic peak, I can't guarantee what kind of madness you will face."

"If it is true as you said, that great being has been in a semi-crazy state in the Sixth Epoch, then if your new assistant used this [Yesterday Reappearance]..."

Pales narrowed his eyes.

"…What kind of crazy existence will He drag back from 'history'?"