The Path to Godhood Begins from the Otherworld

"I know." Luo Shu nodded gently, "Let's go, see you tomorrow morning."

"Okay, see you tomorrow morning." Kurumizaka Ruri smiled at Luo Shu, then rolled down the car window.

"Shu-kun/Ashu..." Sasaki Setsuna and Hamasaki Reina naturally did not forget to say goodbye to Luo Shu. Before Kurumizaka Ruri rolled down the window, they also said at the same time, "See you tomorrow morning."

"meet tomorrow."

Luo Shu smiled at them, then watched the convoy drive away from the block near Qianying Apartment. When the convoy completely disappeared from the end of his sight, he turned around and walked into the apartment.

He first met with the newly hired female apartment manager and briefly told this capable woman named Ito Shizumi about his plans to rent out the property.

After briefly emphasizing some of the strict requirements for tenants, he handed her the keys to the rooms on the first to tenth floors of the apartment, a total of ten sets of keys.

Of course, Luo Shu did not forget to sign the employment contract. In fact, with Kurumizaka Ruri around, he didn't need to worry about the employment contract at all, as it had already been prepared.

After finishing these trivial matters, he returned to the underground garage and transferred all the logs stored there to the "Sky Island World".

Then, Luo Shu closed the rolling door of the underground garage and walked straight to Chengshen College under the cover of night.

Chapter 43: Arrangements before School Enrollment

As we all know, in otherworldly works that use the school as the stage for the story, many places in the school are the main locations where the story takes place.

These were the places that Luo Shu wanted to sneak into Chengshen Academy under the cover of night to investigate.

At this time, because he had mastered the [Smoke Screen Technique (D)], he used the natural cover of the shadows to easily bypass the sentry at the school gate and successfully entered.

School starts tomorrow, and there are many more security personnel patrolling at night in Chengshen Academy.

Luo Shu carefully bypassed the patrolmen holding high-intensity flashlights and went straight to the first place he wanted to explore tonight.

The auditorium of Chengshen Academy.

This is where the opening ceremony is held.

After Luo Shu learned about the existence of Miyajima Sakura, he inevitably thought of the first episode of Hypnosis X-Guide related to her. The place where the bespectacled Tanaka Hatsu first appeared and activated his hypnosis ability was the auditorium.

However, he could not confirm whether Tanaka's actions in the original work were taken when students gathered at the beginning of the school year when he first appeared, or whether he chose to take actions during the school anniversary or school sports day.

After all, when all the teachers and students of the school gather in the auditorium, it is generally the time when activities such as the opening ceremony, school anniversary, school sports meeting and graduation ceremony are held.

Therefore, the auditorium where the opening ceremony will be held must be the focus of attention.

It would be best if nothing happens at tomorrow's opening ceremony.

If Tanaka Hatsu really chose the opening ceremony, then the arrangements he prepared in advance would come in handy.

Luo Shu planned to set up a triggered defensive barrier in the auditorium.

The triggering condition is that when someone in the barrier activates supernatural powers such as hypnosis and other mental interference, the auditorium will be isolated instantly.

Of course, this time the barrier he set up could not omit the use of physical media as the barrier's support.

After all, most barriers without physical media tend to be offensive and auxiliary in nature.

The main feature of a defensive barrier is that it is similar to "drawing a prison on the ground". The person who sets it up needs to use physical media to create barrier pillars to define the scope of the barrier.

Furthermore, using a physical medium as the support for the barrier can ensure that the barrier will continue to exist for a period of time after losing the mysterious energy supply from the person who created it.

Because these barrier pillars can act as batteries.

Luo Shu quickly found the window at the top of the auditorium where the fan was not closed.

With his strong physical fitness at that time, he easily climbed to the window with his bare hands. He turned over and jumped in, successfully reaching the inside of the auditorium.

The auditorium of Chengshen College is very large. He roughly estimated that it can accommodate about three thousand people at the same time.

After thinking for a moment, he quickly selected the physical medium needed to make the barrier pillars.

Those were the high-quality, ancient logs that had been purchased from Kurumizaka Ruri before.

He chose yew.

Luo Shu plans to make an "energy storage talisman" from the rune amulet to act as a battery.

However, considering that he currently did not have many types of barriers and that developing them on site was not very practical, he decided to exchange them from [Fantasy Exchange] after much deliberation.

A defensive barrier, triggered, covering a range of about one kilometer...

After entering the filter criteria, a large number of fantasy creations that meet similar criteria will soon appear in the fantasy exchange list.

Soon, he chose a defensive barrier spell worth 200 World Origin Points and rated B-level, its name was [Mirage Barrier].

[Mirage Barrier (B)]: Prepare 72 barrier pillars and a barrier center in advance. After setting the emergency trigger conditions for the barrier, you need to arrange the barrier pillars according to the star map of the Mirage constellation.

If there is additional need, you can add spells to different pillars of the barrier to enhance the complexity of the internal environment of the mirage barrier.

The original mirage had the effect of confusing people's visual and tactile senses, and targets with low mysterious resistance in the barrier would inevitably fall into hallucinations.

Luo Shu opened the attached map of Mirage and found that the outline of the map looked like a big whale.

He chose this [Mirage Barrier (B)] mainly because he saw that it allowed him to add his own spells to the barrier pillars to enhance the barrier's DIY function.

Then, he began to make seventy-two barrier pillars, which took him nearly an hour.

However, he was at a loss as to the physical medium that would serve as the core of the barrier.

Because according to the description of the [Mirage Barrier], the barrier's core has certain requirements for the mysterious substances contained within the material of the physical medium.

Natural gemstones can be chosen as materials, and alchemical products can also be used as substitutes. Of course, the most suitable ones are the mirage beads produced from the fantasy creature "Mirage".

Mirage Pearl, he looked at the price of the [Fantasy Exchange] sign, 100,000 points of world origin, and it came with an evaluation, Mirage is one of the starry sky fantasy beasts, and the threat level of its adult body can reach the planetary level.

Well, you don't have to think about this for now.

Luo Shu seriously suspected that the person who developed this [Mirage Realm Barrier] only received an initial rating of B in the fantasy exchange list because the Mirage Pearl was not easy to obtain.

Without the Mirage Pearl as the core of the barrier, he estimated that the power of the barrier would be reduced by at least three levels.

"No wonder this barrier supports DIY. It's probably because the Mirage Pearls are too difficult to obtain that the developers had to make modifications."

Luo Shu muttered to himself, focusing his attention on the natural gemstones and alchemical products in the fantasy exchange list.

He looked at the most suitable and expensive material among alchemical products, the Philosopher's Stone, and found that it cost 10 million World Origin Points.

Wow, the "Philosopher's Stone" is indeed the miracle and truth pursued by the mysterious system of alchemy.

"The truth that alchemists pursue is quite expensive. No wonder alchemists always dream of turning stone into gold. It seems that synthesizing the Philosopher's Stone requires a lot of precious materials. If you don't have enough money, you really can't afford it."

Luo Shu was also amazed, but he quickly turned his attention back.

In the end, considering that most of the barriers he set up were one-time use, he finally chose natural gemstones with the best cost-effectiveness for cost reasons.

Of course, the so-called natural gemstones in the fantasy list of [Fantasy Exchange] generally refer to gemstones that contain mysterious substances. As for the price, the price per gram is 1 World Origin Point.

Doesn’t look expensive?

You are wrong. This mysterious gem is a consumable and the mysterious substance contained inside it will be lost.

Especially if it is used as the center of the barrier, the loss rate of the mysterious substance will be further accelerated.

When the mysterious substance inside the mysterious gem is lost, it becomes an ordinary ornamental gem.

Of course, Luo Shu believed that in this derivative world, as long as he was willing to spend time, it would be possible to find some natural gems rich in mysterious substances inside.

Unfortunately, what he lacks most at this moment is time.

He gritted his teeth and spent 300 World Origin Points to buy a single 10-gram mysterious gem, ten each of the three colors of red, yellow, and blue, rated A.

Looking at his only 500 World Origin Points remaining, he sighed helplessly.

This amount is too little to spend.

However, he knew very well that it was meaningless if the points were not spent, so he quickly collected his thoughts.

Luo Shu soon discovered that among the three-colored mysterious gems, the blue mysterious gem was the most suitable to serve as the core of the [Mirage Barrier (B)] barrier.

He quickly completed the arrangement of the barrier in the auditorium and set the triggering conditions.

As a result, he discovered that this mysterious blue gem could only maintain the stable operation of the barrier for three days.

"How come it's only three days?"

When Luo Shu discovered this duration, he was speechless. "It seems that the developers of the ether barrier must have considered the cost of setting up the barrier with physical media, so they considered developing a medium-free barrier.

So, in order to explore the mystery, we need some financial support."

However, besides expressing his emotion, Luo Shu was more grateful.

Because he possesses the seed of the world tree, he can solve the problem caused by insufficient financial resources by plundering the origin of the world.

"Well, hopefully, there won't be any accidents in the auditorium during the three days after school starts."

Luo Shu quickly placed the seventy-two barrier pillars according to the instructions on the Mirage constellation map.

As for the problem of hiding the pillars of the barrier, it was solved the moment the mysterious blue gem was activated to serve as the center of the barrier.

Seeing this, Luo Shu finally understood why the barrier core had requirements for the content of mysterious substances in the materials.

The barrier center is not only the core that supports the operation and stability of the entire barrier, but also the key to hiding the barrier's pillars.

Chapter 44: The girls’ little thoughts

With this in mind, Luo Shu finally confirmed that the triggering conditions were correct, and added [Smoke Screen Spell (D)] and [Soundproofing Spell (D)] to half of the twelve rune amulets near the podium.

The reason why Luo Shu did this was to block the podium area of ​​the auditorium as soon as an accident occurred.

After all, if Tanaka Hatsu really operated as in the original work, then the place where he activated his hypnotic power could only be the podium area where he could look down at all the teachers and students of Seishin Academy.

After finishing the arrangement of the barrier in the auditorium, he felt a little tired, and the magic power converted from the ether in his body was consumed by nearly 30%.

"Is setting up a barrier really that costly?"

Luo Shu left the auditorium with a bitter face. On the way to the teaching buildings, he took the time to chat with Kurumizaka Ruri and others on social software. He felt relieved when he learned that they replied so late because they went shopping on the way.

After finishing his chat with Kurumizaka Ruri and the others, he headed towards the balconies of the teaching buildings.

He did not choose to set up a barrier on the balcony, but instead chose to set up teleportation anchor points connected to the "Sky Island World" on some immovable buildings on the balcony.

According to the information Luo Shu currently has, the only people who might have had an accident on the balcony of the teaching building are Shirakawa Mei and this teacher from Seishin Academy.

However, he also understood that binding the teleportation anchor point to the balcony only solved the problem of how to quickly get to the scene, but it could not ensure that he would arrive at the scene in the first place.

If you want to arrive at the scene as soon as possible when Shirakawa Miwa gets into an accident, you must have actual contact with her. It would be safest to then provide her with a teleportation anchor point.

Kurumizaka Ruri and others have teleportation anchors bound by Luo Shu to the "Sky Island World". If anything happens to them, Luo Shu can transfer through the "Sky Island World" and activate [Cross-Border Shuttle] at the first time to achieve "distance-ignoring teleportation" that is not allowed by this derivative world.

Because Luo Shu was not directly conducting point-to-point distance-ignoring teleportation in the derived world, but had an additional transit point, the "Sky Island World", so the defense mechanism of this derived world would not be triggered.

Although Luo Shu still hasn't figured out why there is a restriction of "ignoring distance transmission" since there are three complete mysterious systems in this derivative world.

After he finished setting up the teleportation anchor points on the balconies of each teaching building, he went to the sports equipment warehouse, the storage rooms on each floor of the club building, the inside of the health rooms on each floor of the teaching buildings for all grades, and many remote corners of the campus, but found some teleportation anchor points there.

Only after finishing all this did Luo Shu feel relieved.

I glanced at the time and realized it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

He did not stay in the school any longer and quickly returned to Qianying Apartment.

After returning home, Luo Shu continued to work on making rune amulets.

At two o'clock in the morning, he stopped working after the magic power converted from the ether reserves in his body was exhausted.

The final product is exactly three hundred and sixty pieces in total.

Among them, the one that increases the wearer's mental resistance is the largest. He named it "Heart-Guarding Talisman" and made a total of 120 pieces.

The second-best item for increasing the wearer's mystical resistance is called the "Impact Resistance Talisman." Its primary effect is to cast a one-time ethereal energy shield that negates any damage sustained when struck by mystical energy. He crafted a total of 100 of these.

For the remaining 140 pieces, he chose enhancement amulets such as "clear-headedness", "clear eyesight" and "calmness" to assist in spiritual practice.

These 140 enhancement amulets are mainly prepared for the future training of Kurumizaka Ruri and others.

All the enhancement amulets currently made by Luo Shu have a time limit. Generally, after being activated by wearing, the longest time limit for those with better quality can be up to seven days, but the shortest can only last for three days.

He counted the amulets, sorted them into different categories and stored them in the "Sky Island World". Then he set the alarm for six o'clock and soon fell asleep.

A dreamless night.

The next morning, Luo Shu was woken up by his own alarm clock on time.

"Why do I still feel a little tired? Is it because of the aftereffects of my excessive mana consumption last night?"

When Luo Shu got up, he felt uncomfortable all over, and it took him a long time to recover.