From Naruto onwards, I've become a dreamer.

Chapter 417 The Cautious Uchiha Muneki!

The magnificent Church of Bones stands in the Nibelungen region, a territory opened up by alchemy.

Uchiha Sogetsu sat on a giant bronze chair, his figure seemingly formed from a myriad of images, his profound and vast ethereal aura enveloping the entire temple.

"The Insightful One. Truly extraordinary!"

He slowly opened his eyes, experiencing the various changes that occurred to him after advancing to the second rank.

It wasn't just internal, but more so from the 'external'. He could even sense that the religion established in the Dragon Clan world was like a sturdy anchor, firmly holding him in place, preventing him from being influenced by the abundant 'divinity' within him, thus preventing his extraordinary characteristics from going out of control!
It is extremely difficult to resist the subtle erosion from divinity while also being wary of the loss of control over extraordinary characteristics!
Fortunately, Uchiha Muneki had made advance arrangements and used the influence of Angers and the Board of Directors to control the Vatican in the Dragon World. Now, hundreds of millions of believers provide 'faith' to help Him fight against 'divinity' and stabilize His 'cognition' and 'humanity'.

This is the advantage of controlling a world; you don't have to compete with other gods for 'faith'.

"Phew, as expected of 'Sequence Two', it's true that being careful in everything you do will prevent you from making any big mistakes."

Uchiha Muneki slowly exhaled and said softly, "The divinity at the 'angel' level is already so terrifying. The divinity and loss of control that Sequence Zero can withstand is simply unimaginable."

In fact, starting from Sequence 4, it is essentially a process of gradual evolution towards mythical creatures, from the initial 'incomplete' form to gradually becoming 'complete'.

Only when it reaches Sequence Two, the mythical creature form, can it be considered truly 'complete'.

Therefore, Sequence Two is also known as "Angel," and in terms of rank, it is second only to "God," which in ancient times was almost equivalent to "following the gods."

The second sequence of the audience pathway, 'The Insightful,' is someone who, once they believe themselves to be strong enough, will truly become strong enough, and will not be constrained by their external image!
It sounds like there's a hint of what's to come for a 'dreamer'!

After advancing to the second rank, 'Insightful One', there are two more special abilities. One is 'Dream Labyrinth', which allows one to use the minds of all beings to piece together a labyrinth; the other is 'Insight', which allows one to easily perceive the potential psychological vulnerabilities of a target and know what they fear most.

Although the improvement may not seem significant, it is actually quite terrifying.

Any power involving the 'mind' should not be underestimated in actual combat, especially extraordinary abilities named 'insight', which can see through the enemy's mental weaknesses at a glance, and thus, with just a little influence, can directly change the course of the battle!

As for the 'Dream Maze', it is more like a 'seal'.

If given enough time to prepare, Uchiha Munetsuki was confident that he could use tens of thousands of minds to weave a vast labyrinth, and even a 'Sequence One' 'Angel' would be trapped and die inside!
“Perhaps, we could try to trap the ‘divine evil’?” He pondered for a moment, but quickly abandoned the idea.

Although the 'Divine Abomination' is a Sequence One, it likely possesses the uniqueness of the Bound Person's pathway, making it, in a sense, the 'King of Angels'. Although it has gone completely mad, such a being cannot be trapped by the Dream Labyrinth; at most, it can only be temporarily sealed.

"The rest is just a matter of inspecting the 'spoils of war'."

Uchiha Muneki murmured as he extracted the main quest rewards from the system space.

0-17: The Hidden Angel!

【Ding! 】

[WARNING! 0-17 Hidden Angels are extremely dangerous sealed artifacts!]

Once it appears, it will completely 'erasure' anyone or anything that tries to approach it, forcing them into the 'hidden' world!

[Please be extremely careful, host!]

"Tsk, even the system has appeared."

Uchiha Muneki couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement. Unlike any previous 'sealed artifact,' even the system had to issue a warning, which showed just how dangerous it was.

It's no exaggeration to say that if you were to randomly drop the '0-17 Hidden Angel' into the Dragon World, it wouldn't be long before all the Dragon Kings and hybrids would disappear.

"Confirmed extraction."

Uchiha Muneki sat up slightly, his spiritual power surging like an undercurrent of flowing waves.

Swish!
A young, beautiful, black-haired woman suddenly appeared inside the Church of Bones.

He had no expression, as stiff as a rock, and his empty eyes contained a deep, dark light, but lacked any spirit. He was like a puppet that had lost its consciousness. From the outside, he seemed no different from an ordinary person.

Uchiha Muneki's vigilance instantly rose to its highest level!
You must understand, this is a living 'angel'. Although its intelligence and consciousness have been erased, it has become even more terrifying after being reforged by the 'Goddess of Night'!

He attempted to throw a conjured item directly at the 'Hidden Angel'.

As expected, when the object was within about ten meters of the temple, it vanished into thin air as if it had been erased from the sky.

"Is this the hidden effect of the Dark Path?"

Uchiha Munetsuki realized that the wisp of consciousness attached to that item had completely severed its 'connection' with him.

Even sensing it on a spiritual level, I couldn't find that item; it had been erased and disappeared into some other space!
However, this means that He cannot control the 'hidden angel', which makes things rather tricky.

After much deliberation, Uchiha Muneki tried again, creating a virtual personality and issuing the command: "Go, infiltrate His consciousness space and occupy the island of the mind."

The virtual persona nodded, then attempted to manipulate the mind of the 'Hidden Angel'.

However, the gate to the other party's mind remained as firm as a mountain, showing no signs of being 'pried open'. Left with no other option, the virtual personality decided to take matters into its own hands.

Mental deprivation!

Combat Hypnosis!

The storm brewing from the dual minds crashed directly and fiercely upon the 'Hidden Angel'.

Unfortunately, the 'hidden angel' that had lost its mind did not react at all, only swaying slightly.

A stroll through consciousness!

The virtual personality's body gradually becomes ethereal, venturing directly into the ocean of the subconscious, attempting to approach the 'hidden angel'.

Will it succeed?

Uchiha Muneki narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully observing every move and not missing a single detail.

at this time!

The 'Hidden Angel' seems to have sensed the virtual personality attempting to invade the mind from the ocean of the subconscious.

He raised his pure white palm, which contained the power of the 'dark' path, and with a wave of his hand, the virtual personality in the ocean of subconsciousness was simultaneously 'erased'.

"As expected, it's not that simple."

Feeling the complete disappearance of his virtual personality, Uchiha Muneki couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

Facing the 'Hidden Angel', he experienced for the first time what a seamless eggshell truly meant!

The absence of sentience means that conventional methods of mind control will have no effect on Him, or rather, will have little impact on His deep spirituality. However, the 'erasure' bestowed upon Him by the Goddess of Darkness can make anything that comes near disappear from the world, making Him a true nemesis of viewers!
"Wait, how did the people from the Church of the Night get close to Him?"

Uchiha Muneki wasn't in a hurry. He carefully considered the possibilities, trying not to miss any clues.

When the Archbishop of the Church of the Night used the 'Hidden Angel', he used the memory erasure method 1-29. Could there be a secret hidden in this?

Approached, counterattacked, wiped out.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him!
Uchiha Muneki suddenly smiled; he had finally guessed the correct method for using the 'Hidden Angel'. The next moment, another virtual persona appeared.

This time, the virtual personality, completely unprepared, went straight to the 'Hidden Angel'.

Strangely, the virtual personality seems to exist as if it doesn't exist at all; it is completely 'hidden' from the spiritual level and even the mental level.

Psychology is in hiding!
Yes, it was such a simple technique that made the 'Hidden Angel' completely ignore the approaching virtual personality.

Ten meters
five meters
one meter.
The virtual persona appeared behind the 'Hidden Angel', but He still did not react.

"It's just as I guessed."

Uchiha Munezuki chuckled and shook his head: "I've overcomplicated things. As long as the 'Hidden Angel' doesn't detect the 'approach,' the mechanism won't be triggered."

The archbishop of the Church of the Night must have erased his memories using chapters 1-29, eliminating his own 'presence', which allowed him to use the 'hidden angel'.

Now that the answer has been revealed, the rest is much simpler.

The virtual personality infiltrated the 'Hidden Angel's' mental island. Since it lacked any intelligence, the mental island was naturally undefended and easily took its place.

The 'Hidden Angel's' deep, dark eyes seemed to have gained a touch of intelligence, and her pink lips parted slightly: "I succeeded."

"Very good, from now on, you are Hastur."

With a smile playing on his lips, Uchiha Munetsuki renamed it and said, "You will follow me like a shadow."

"Yes, the real body."

A tattered yellow robe was quietly draped over the body of the 'Hidden Angel'.

He put on a pale mask and vanished in an instant, as if he had never existed.

However, Uchiha Muneki could sense that He was right beside him, but due to the stealth effect of the Dark Path, He was completely undetectable to outsiders.

"That gives us another trump card!"

Uchiha Muneki narrowed his eyes slightly, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

After all, nobody would complain about having an extra card in their hand, right?
However, this containment also served as a wake-up call for him.

If 0-17 is this dangerous, what about the rest?
I can't believe it. What would happen if I were to have really bad luck one day and draw either the '0-05 Wishing Lamp' or the '0-61 Old Box'?
Most likely, he would throw it directly into the system space without hesitation, and it would never be taken out unless he advanced to the zeroth rank!

Just thinking about it made Uchiha Sōgetsu feel a chill run down his spine.

Forget it, it's too damn dangerous!
Both of these things contain a genuine 'Old Day', and one of them could destroy the world in a heartbeat!
At the highest point of the dark mountain range, Zarathustra hurried into the temple.

"Now, the entire plan has been completed."

With a broad smile, he reported to the hazy figure on the throne, "Pompeii's aptitude is indeed excellent. Even without the ceremony and before the potion was fully digested, the 'contamination' in this Sequence Two 'Calamity' is much less than expected."

As he spoke, Zaratu took out a crystal-clear, jewel-like 'dragon bone' from the void.

Uchiha Muneki lowered his eyes and used his 'spiritual vision' to observe the dragon skeleton.

Indeed, as Zarathustra said, there is very little 'contamination', and it can be completely purified without much effort, and then the next 'suitable person' can be selected to use it.

"However, the power of the Dragon King is also incorporated into this 'extraordinary characteristic'."

Uchiha Munezuki tapped his index finger on the armrest, his brows furrowed slightly. If he were to forcibly separate them, it would probably take some effort.

At that moment, Adam finally returned, a gentle smile on his lips: "I have retrieved the remaining power of the Dragon King."

A complete dragon skeleton, and another power, both belong to the King of Earth and Mountains.

"Where's that stupid dragon?" Zaratu naturally knew what he had been doing and asked curiously, "Wasn't this power with Chu Zihang? How did it end up in your hands?"

“I sent Him to be reborn.”

Adam said gently, "As for Chu Zihang, I had already separated a part of his consciousness deep within his mind's island and stolen that power."

"I didn't expect you to have some talent as a 'thief'?"

Zarathustra stroked his beard and laughed jokingly.

Uchiha Muneki's tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed, and he smiled and nodded: "Very good. In this way, the power of the four monarchs, the Black King, and the White King will all be under one person."

Adam asked slowly, "What do you plan to do with these things next?"

"You shall devour these dragon bones."

Uchiha Muneki had already made arrangements, and looking at Adam, he said, "By gathering the power of all the Dragon Kings, you will possess power no less than that of a Sequence Two."

"understood."

Adam nodded slightly; he would not refuse any request from the 'original body'.

Then, Uchiha Munetsuki looked at Zaratul and said, "I hope you can stay."

"Management beliefs?"

Zarathustra seemed unsurprised by this decision.

“That’s right. Such a huge faith, if it goes astray, will affect my state of mind.”

Uchiha Muneki nodded, tapping his index finger on the armrest, and said calmly, "Moreover, I need to use you to leave an 'anchor' in this world."

"In a way, it can also be considered a 'second move,' right?"

Zarathustra stroked his beard, guessing another plan of the 'original body'.

“That’s right, it’s a ‘backup plan’.”

Uchiha Munetsuki smiled and said, "It's always better to be cautious, isn't it?"

Caution is the first principle!

We must never let our guard down, for there are plenty of examples of people who have been caught off guard and ended up losing their lives!

"Well then, it's time to go back!"

Uchiha Muneki looked up at the starry sky, a hint of excitement in his eyes: "Godly wretch, just you wait!"

(End of this chapter)