Mysterious, but Naruto

As the "crimson" light returned Audrey's consciousness to her body, it was revealed that the light was sending her consciousness back into her body.

Louis did not approach immediately, but instead opened his Rinne Sharingan to confirm that there were no surveillance devices left around.

Of course, Louis wasn't looking at the room he was in, but rather at the spirit world corresponding to this place.

Although the portal of light almost killed Louis Chujian, it also allowed him to obtain a lot of information about this world.

During the time Audrey's consciousness left her body, Louis absorbed and digested a portion of it.

From what he understands, the world is divided into two layers.

The first layer is the material world, which is the world where Louis, Audrey, and the others are currently in.

The second layer is the spirit realm, which is the place where the gray fog and the Louis Tree space were located before.

The spirit world and the material world are independent yet intertwined. Divination or prophecy, for example, mostly involve using various methods to break down the barrier between the two worlds and then obtaining the corresponding information from the spirit world.

In addition, there are abilities such as teleportation and teleportation, most of which involve first entering the spirit world from the material world and then descending to the material world from the corresponding location in the spirit world.

For the teleporter, their movement is continuous, but for people in the material world, the other party suddenly disappears and then suddenly reappears.

This method of transmission was completely different from what Louis had used before.

Louis truly relied on the Otsutsuki clan's control over spacetime to forcibly distort the space of the material world and then pass through this distorted spatial node.

To draw an analogy between the two teleportation methods, it's like Louis is currently sitting in a hotel, in room 513, and he's about to go to room 412.

Using the spirit world to teleport is like Louis having a hotel key card, which allows him to easily swipe to open the elevator floor and the door of room 412. He just needs to take the elevator downstairs and then open the door to enter.

The method of teleportation in the distorted space is equivalent to violently breaking through the ground diagonally below, and then jumping directly from room 513 to room 412.

Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Using the spirit world for teleportation is the most convenient, as you only need to swipe a key card, and even going up and down stairs is done by elevator.

However, compared to jumping directly downstairs, this method is more complicated and slower.

After all, if you take the elevator downstairs, no matter how fast you run, it won't help because you can't get off until the elevator reaches your floor. Even using a key card to open the elevator and room door takes a fixed amount of time.

As for distorting space, firstly, people who are not strong enough simply cannot break through space. You need to have the ability to break through walls before you can travel through space, which is a higher threshold than using the spirit world for teleportation.

Secondly, the consumption is much greater than using the spirit world for teleportation. The farther the destination, the greater the consumption, and it is not even a coefficient-like increase, but an exponential increase.

But its advantage is its speed; in fact, the stronger a person is, the faster they can go.

Of course, what is described above is only the most basic situation. In actual use, it is thousands of times more complicated than going up or down a floor.

Moreover, various other factors still influence the transmission process.

For example, when breaking through a wall, you can use your bare hands, a pickaxe, or even explosives; when going up or down an elevator, there are passenger elevators, freight elevators, and VIP elevators, and their operating speeds are all different.

As for Louis himself, he can now use both of these teleportation abilities.

He didn't understand before, but now that he knows a more effortless way, he can use the spirit world to teleport in non-urgent situations.

However, although he gained a better understanding of the spirit world by facing the gate of light directly, and was even able to borrow its power to some extent.

However, he was not a sequencer in any of these three pathways, and the power he could wield in the spirit world was very weak.

To be honest, it's barely equivalent to Sequence 8.

However, Louis was not a true Sequence 8, so the spirit world did not actually give him a room card with level 8 access.

Louis's actions were more akin to secretly obtaining someone else's card from somewhere and then using a card reader to create a backup copy for himself.

This copy card works fine under normal circumstances; it can be used on any door or elevator within the authorized access range.

However, there is a problem: if you encounter a genuine Level 8 access room card, or a room card of a higher level, the other party is very likely to notice something is wrong.

Even those with high privileges, who can access the hotel's back-end system to some extent, can directly block his fake card.

However, Louis felt that this was nothing serious. If he had more time, his understanding of the spirit world would deepen, and he should be able to borrow more power from it.

Now, as Louis's understanding of the spirit world deepens, he is able to observe it more closely.

For example, before the "crimson" light appeared in the material world, Louis had already sensed the fluctuations in the spirit world, which made him subconsciously activate the Rinne Sharingan and see the whole process of Audrey's consciousness returning.

Only after confirming that no one else was watching did Louis reappear.

"You're back. How was it?"

"Mr. Six Paths, I am fine. Neither of the two protective barriers you placed on me were triggered. Mr. Fool should not have probed our thoughts."

Furthermore… that Mr. Fool, today in front of us, directly read through the diaries of Emperor Rosell; he can indeed decipher the text.”

Louis nodded, but began to ponder in his heart.

"Could this be another time traveler? It's hard to say, really hard to say."

From what I've learned over the past couple of days, aside from the fact that Rosell is confirmed to be a time traveler, it's said that elves use two sticks to eat and like to make blood products—doesn't that refer to using chopsticks and eating blood tofu?

If this is another time traveler, then including me there will be at least four. It's hard to say, maybe this world is just a place where people are easily transported.

However, regardless of whether the other party is a time traveler or not, I don't need to worry too much for the time being.

Now, not only have we found their lair, but as long as they don't completely control that portal of light, they can't defeat me.

Thinking of this, Louis gestured to Audrey not to be so nervous.

"Relax, I went with you to take a look while your mind was out of your body."

In order not to alert the enemy, I have already met the fool from afar.

Don't worry, the other party is not a real god. I can't say exactly which sequence it is, but it should be an angel, that is, a sequence 2 or a sequence 1.

In this way, the other party will be unable to bypass the two illusions I set up and silently invade the depths of your memory.

Even if the other party attacks you, as long as they don't use their full strength right away, I can save you in time.

Although Audrey didn't really understand the concepts of angels, Sequence 2, and Sequence 1, she understood the meaning behind Louis's words and immediately gave him a standard curtsy.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Rokudo! I will continue to collect relevant information from the meeting for you."

Louis waved his hand, signaling the other person not to get agitated and to sit down and talk slowly.

After calming herself down, Audrey recounted everything she had seen and heard at the meeting.

"...At the very end, the Fool said that he wanted us to conduct an experiment for him, so that we could use a mind spell to summon the other person."

"Hmm? Tell me more."

"Yes, place four new sandalwood candles on the altar, one at each of the four corners."

Place a white bread near the candle in the upper left corner, a Fennebot pasta near the candle in the upper right corner, paella in the lower left corner, and a Dixie pie in the lower right corner. Then, using a silver knife, create a sealed spiritual environment around the altar.

Upon hearing Audrey's words, Louis was visibly taken aback: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, are you sure you didn't get the materials for this ritual wrong?"

Audrey was also a little puzzled by this, and could only bite the bullet and say, "I don't really know much about this either. This is the first complete magic ritual I know of."

Although many magical rituals had been recorded before, their authenticity was unknown, and at least after setting them up, there were no changes.

But to be honest, I've never seen anything like it before; they've all used food.

Louis thought to himself, "This isn't some kind of magical ritual; it's clearly an offering."

"Okay, then continue."

"Then, a blend of moonflower, peppermint, deep sleep flower, citronella, and rock rose is distilled to extract essential oils, and a drop is added to each candle..."

Finally, it's time to recite the fool's incantation. Should I just recite it aloud, or...?

Louis answered the other party directly with his actions. With a wave of his hand, countless incantations appeared in the room.

"Alright, go ahead and tell me. This place is completely isolated from the outside world."

Fools who do not belong to this era

The Mysterious Ruler Above the Gray Fog

The King of Yellow and Black, who holds good fortune

That's the whole spell. You said before that Mr. Fool wasn't a god.

But, according to my understanding, such a three-part description, especially one with such a direct and grand description, is usually only used by deities, right?

Besides, what he wants us to try is to establish a connection with Him through prayer—isn't that something only a deity can do?

Louis immediately thought of the portal: "Hmm, that's normal. Although he himself is not a god, he does possess a treasure that can, to some extent, draw upon the power of a god."

Louis, recalling the knowledge he had gained, added, "And you're wrong about one thing."

It's not only gods who can answer believers' prayers; in fact, it can start with angels.

Furthermore, what you did was not just prayer, but also ritual magic as an aid.

In such circumstances, even saints below the angels can respond within a limited scope.

Oh right, he said he wanted you to conduct experiments, right?

Then my guess should be correct; the other party has most likely just been promoted to angel.

As for why such a small gathering was organized, it was probably to establish a new church through you, develop you into his believers, and then spread his faith for him.

So it seems he's only Sequence 2, not Sequence 1.

"Why? Is it because Mr. Fool doesn't have any followers of his own?"

The information Louis saw indicated that God needed believers, but he had not yet figured out the specific reason why.

However, in Louis's view, there are only a few reasons.

"Believers are very important to God."

As I said, even saints are able to respond to believers within a limited scope.

If one has the ambition to become a god, then from this point onward, one already needs to begin cultivating one's own followers or subordinates.

I suspect that this fool didn't originally intend to become a god, which is why he didn't develop his own followers during his sainthood stage.

But he unexpectedly became an angel, which gave him the opportunity to try and ascend to the position of a god.

I suspect he might be an angel within a theistic cult, otherwise he wouldn't be spreading his faith so covertly.

Louis had something he didn't say explicitly; he had developed doubts from the incantation above.

The phrase "the king of yellow and black who holds the key to good fortune" is relatively easy to understand. According to the information Louis learned from the light gate, the miracle worker of Sequence 2 has a similar ability.

Miracle workers possess the ability to accumulate wish power by fulfilling the wishes of others, and then use this wish power to make wishes for themselves.

Although good luck is not directly equivalent to wishes, since he suspected that the other party was a member of the righteous god sect and was spreading the faith so secretly, he naturally did not want anyone to find him.

After all, through Audrey's description, he already knew the general situation of the two people at the meeting. Audrey came from a noble family and had access to high-ranking figures. In addition, her family had a lot of money and no power to protect herself.

If an angel approaches such a family, saying that they are willing to give them power, also known as a superhuman, in exchange for helping them spread their faith and help them ascend to godhood.

Louis felt there was a very high probability that the other party would agree, after all, in Louis's eyes, Audrey's family was just a front for the Church of the Night, and they might be abandoned one day.

Now that there's a chance to change the family's fate, anyone with a bit of courage would split up the family and then take a gamble with 90% of their strength.

Returning to the incantation, "Mysterious ruler above the gray fog" is easier to understand. Louis had personally witnessed that gray fog, making its meaning more specific.

Finally, there's the "Fool who doesn't belong to this era." The first impression this incantation gives is that this is a very ancient being.

But Louis knew that the other party could understand Chinese and had even told Audrey about the matter of changing the system!

At the last meeting, Audrey said that the Fool had told her that social elites could be selected through two or three rounds of examinations open to the public.

These elites were then filled into administrative positions in the cabinet, county governments, municipal governments, and various towns, essentially a replica of the British civil service system.

Based on his previous observation about Roselle, Louis suspects that "not belonging to this era" doesn't refer to time at all, but rather to the act of time travel!

Louis even suspected that the Fool's time travel was relatively recent.

Otherwise, even if a saint doesn't deliberately cultivate believers and subordinates, he wouldn't have to start from scratch like this.

But if he is a time traveler, then it makes perfect sense. He hasn't been here long, so he doesn't trust the original owner's subordinates and is afraid that they will discover his changes.

Left with no other choice, they had to find another way and prepare to start preparing believers from scratch.

As for that portal of light, it must be the cheat code that allowed the other party to travel through time!