Mysterious, but Naruto

Today is Monday, and Louis had his coachman drive his brand-new carriage on a deliberate long detour around Backlund, looking like a fisherman who had finally caught a big fish.

To achieve the desired publicity effect, the cost price of this carriage alone was two hundred pounds. If it weren't for concerns about overstepping its bounds, it could have been even more luxurious.

Louis had actually considered the issue of status, thinking about whether he could spend money to buy a knighthood.

Audrey offered a great deal of advice in this regard.

For example, if you only want to buy a knighthood, you only need to donate 1 gold pounds to the Rune army, and then you can obtain it with a little effort. It's relatively simple.

Furthermore, obtaining a title of baron or higher is extremely difficult.

Unless, of course, they are willing to spend a large sum of money to fund the Rune army, so that it will be willing to launch an attack on the Eastern and Western Bairan in the southern continent and seize a piece of land.

To boost morale, several countries in the Northern Continent issued similar expansion orders, promising corresponding rewards to anyone who achieved victories in the Southern Continent.

With that newly acquired land, and after some maneuvering within the upper echelons of Rune, it's still possible to obtain the corresponding title.

The only thing to be careful about is ensuring that the land that has been won still exists before the process of bestowing a title is completed.

Even if the land is taken back by the Byrons right after the ennoblement process is completed, it doesn't matter. All they care about is the status; whether they have the land or not is actually not important.

Based on past success stories, a baronial title can be obtained for approximately £5, and an earlial title for £50.

I learned a bit from Audrey that the privileges granted by these different titles are sufficient for a knighthood if there is no corresponding fief.

Louis then entrusted Audrey with the task. As for the money, Louis spent another night working on the riverbed and gave Audrey twelve thousand pounds, the rest being considered as a reward for her hard work.

At the same time, Louis also discovered a problem: after Louis's mining activities over this period, he had almost completely mined out the gold dust contained in this section of the riverbed in the western district, and if he wanted to mine again in the future, he would have to find another place.

As for forcibly increasing chakra output and manipulating gold dust in a more distant place, it's not that it's impossible, but there's absolutely no need for it.

Even if Louis himself is unwilling to move, he can simply create a clone and send it to mine in other places.

At the same time, Louis created several more clones and left them in and around the Rothschild Islands.

After all, this afternoon was another time when the Fool convened a meeting of his followers.

Last time, because the incident happened so suddenly, Louis's clone was unable to find the "Hanged Man".

Louis felt there should be an opportunity this time, especially since the other party's spirit body was taken away by the Fool, leaving their physical body motionless.

At that time, he only needs to look for someone who is alone in a room and doesn't move at all, and there is a very high probability that he can find the other person.

After arriving at the factory with a high rate of people turning their heads to look at him, Louis sent someone to contact a newspaper to prepare a report on the mysterious carriage on the street.

After a few days of review, all factory workers have had their job levels reassessed, and with the unanimous approval of the company's senior management, the new system will be officially implemented starting today.

To avoid any unforeseen circumstances, Louis decided to stay at the office building for the next week.

Once it's confirmed that the system is working without major problems, he should only come once or twice a week from now on.

Normally, all you need to do is listen to the chairman's secretary report on the intelligence here.

Time quickly passed to three o'clock in the afternoon. Louis appeared to be resting in his office with his eyes half-closed, but in reality, he was focusing most of his energy on his associates, waiting for them to bring him good news.

At exactly three o'clock, the clones hidden in the spirit world noticed the "crimson" light representing Audrey and the Hanged Man appearing.

One of the clones quickly followed the "crimson" light of the Hanged Man and discovered that the corresponding location had left the Rothschild Islands and was now on a vast ocean.

This annoyed Louis, who felt that his search on the island over the past few days had been a waste of time.

However, the sea is different from an island; there are few people, making it easier to search.

This clone immediately began to gather the clones that were originally located on the Roside Islands and started searching the sea surface with its Byakugan activated.

In just over ten minutes, Louis found his target.

This is a rather strange ship. Other sailboats of the same size usually have at least forty or fifty people, and even larger ones might have several hundred.

However, this sailboat only had a dozen or so crew members, yet they managed to sail the boat quickly and steadily.

Louis examined it carefully and discovered the secret: the ship itself was not simple; it was a "living" ship.

This ship can sail even without any crew.

Of course, these are not the main points. What really caught the attention of Louis's clones was the discovery of a motionless captain in the captain's cabin of the ship.

Although the captain's cabin reeked of alcohol, and there was even some spilled alcohol on his clothes, making it clear that he was drunk.

In reality, Louis easily noticed the anomaly.

Even when a normal person is drunk, their consciousness is still present in their body, but this captain's consciousness had completely disappeared.

It's impossible for a perfectly healthy person to suddenly become a vegetable after just one sip of alcohol.

However, Louis did not immediately attack the person in front of him. Instead, he left a clone hidden in the air to quietly monitor the other party.

About forty minutes later, the "crimson" light carrying the other party's consciousness reappeared.

"Haha, I've finally found you."

Although he had confirmed the identity of the person in front of him, Louis did not make any rash moves.

Unlike before, when he only wanted to obtain the occult knowledge that the other party knew.

Louis now wants to use the other party to play a bigger game, to see if he can lure out the fool hiding behind the scenes.

After all, the information about the Akatsuki organization was given to the Fool by Audrey through her diary. Having Audrey pass on information related to it would seem a bit deliberate.

In this way, since it had no connection with Audrey herself, and was a candidate for believer carefully selected by the Fool, the information she reported was naturally more likely to be believed by the Fool.

Since they are still at sea, it is not convenient for Louis to take action. He plans to hold off the enemy for now and then arrange for his clones to step in and put on a show once the enemy arrives at the port.

Before that, however, Louis had to collect some small animals and begin his experiments.

To avoid attracting attention, Louis himself did not make a large-scale purchase. Instead, he had his clones outside dump the purchased animals directly into the pasture of the manor in the Divine Tree Space.

In anticipation of potential future experiments, Louis bought a large number of rabbits, intending to let them breed freely in the pastures.

While the clones were busy, the main body was having afternoon tea with the company's senior executives, discussing future development.

What these company executives didn't know was that Louis was actually secretly contacting Audrey through the ring.

The fruit from before did indeed greatly increase the upper limit of chakra that Audrey could refine, and the messages that could be transmitted using the ring also increased exponentially.

After learning that Audrey had used money to buy information about other secret organizations from the Hanged Man, Louis did not feel that he had wasted his time having found the Hanged Man himself.

Instead, they praised Audrey's actions, saying that there was no need to be stingy with money at such a time, and that the Akatsuki would reimburse her for compiling the information she had obtained.

Louis considered Audrey, who had joined Akatsuki, to be his employee, so he naturally had to reimburse her for intelligence information that was clearly beneficial to the organization.

The requirement to compile the information into a booklet is also to prevent everyone from repeatedly purchasing the same information as the organization develops.

Although it cost 1000 gold pounds to buy the intelligence, that's enough to buy a middle-class house even in Backlund.

Audrey herself hadn't thought about reimbursement at all; she just felt that she had obtained information and wanted to share it with Louis, since this money was just her allowance.

But now, upon learning from Louis that he was going to reimburse her, Audrey suddenly felt a greater sense of belonging to the organization, realizing that it was not just the secret church Louis had initially envisioned as a way to demonstrate his own existence.

Louis was unaware of Audrey's ulterior motives and was still reviewing the intelligence about the secret organization that the other party had sent him.

"Yes, the Morse Order, whose founders and elders are said to be the first humans to see the Profaned Stone Tablet, and who share a common faith in an impersonal deity—the Hidden Sage."

Most of its members take potions of the Seeker sequence. It is known that its Sequence 9 is Seeker, Sequence 8 is Fighting Scholar, and Sequence 7 is Wizard.

Later, the hidden sage worshipped by this organization transformed from an impersonal god into a personified evil god, and since then the organization has been rejected by the Church of the True God.

Similar organizations include the Psychological Alchemy Society, which also believes in an impersonal being and that the human spirit can evolve into all existence.

The Hanged Man didn't know much about the specifics of this organization, only that it had people planted among the upper classes in various countries, making it a rather mysterious organization.

But there is another organization called the Secret Order, which is even more secretive than the Psychological Alchemy Society. Its activities are infrequent and it is almost unknown to the outside world. All that is known is that every time they appear, it seems as if they are chasing something, but no one knows the specifics.

Besides these secretive organizations, there is another well-known organization in the Northern Continent called the Witch Cult.

To say it's famous is too general; to be specific, it should be called infamous, simply because the sect's mission is to spread disaster.

During the Fourth Age, this sect was also known as the Witch Family. At that time, they had few members and mainly relied on bloodline reproduction to survive.

Members of the cult would kill the father of the child and abandon the male infants they gave birth to; the entire organization consisted only of women.

In modern times, it is said that it no longer operates solely as a family business and has begun to recruit men, but the top members are still all women.

In addition, there are two secret organizations originating from the Southern Continent—the Spirit Cult that worships the God of Death and the Rose School that enjoys bloody sacrifices.

These two sects were originally part of the orthodox faith of the Southern Continent, but they were nearly wiped out by the Seven Gods Sect during the colonial era, and were forced to go into hiding in order to survive…

Besides the ones mentioned above, the Hanged Man also mentioned a few other names, such as the Blood Cult and the Life Organization, but he only mentioned one name and did not know any specific details about them.

"Let me think. In the diary Audrey gave me before, there seemed to be some information about the Secret Order. If I remember correctly, Rosell met a gentleman named Zarathustra, who was the leader of the Secret Order."

It's just unclear whether this leader is the current leader or an ancient monster who has lived for countless years.

After getting a rough idea of ​​the information, Louis put it aside for the time being, planning to wait for Audrey to submit the detailed written contents to him later, so he could review them at his own pace.

Finally, it was time to leave work, and Louis once again rode in his new carriage around the city.

After attracting a great deal of curiosity once again, Louis finally returned home.

He deliberately chose to make these two appearances in his carriage when the streets were busiest.

Even if the number of people seen during these two appearances was limited, it will surely arouse everyone's curiosity when the newspaper comes out tomorrow morning.

After a little inquiry, those who had seen the carriage could tell others about it.

Louis was very confident about this, because he could also assign the newly recruited sales staff in the company to tasks such as playing games in crowded places.

These people don't need to do anything on their own initiative. All they need to do is casually mention that they saw the carriage yesterday when they are curious about the contents of the newspaper, and say how different the carriage is.

In the following days, as the number of new carriages produced in the factory increased, Louis temporarily hired many coachmen and horses to bring these carriages to the streets for display.

Because of his almost 24-hour constant appearances on the street, plus the expensive "GG" in the newspapers.

In just a few days, even though there were only about twenty new-style carriages on the street, it gave the impression that there were more than two thousand.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Louis had the newspapers release the news, thus promoting his factory's reputation.

Sure enough, after a few days of buzz, the carriage factory received orders as soon as its name became known.

Austin White, the factory manager, was so excited by the number of orders he received in a single day that it almost equaled the total number of orders he had received in his previous days that he nearly fainted.

But to his surprise, Louis was pushing the factories to increase production and putting the newly made carriages on the streets to increase their exposure.

On the one hand, they pressured their customers, telling the outside world that the factory had already received too many commissions and could not keep up with the demand, so they would not accept any more orders for the time being.