The Path to Godhood Begins from the Otherworld

The special summoning that is a plot-modifying act is special in that the characters summoned in this way have the possibility of retaining the legal resident status of the original world, as long as they are recognized by the rules of the original world. In short, the specially summoned characters may have the legal resident status of both worlds.

Fourthly, Luo Shu used his power in the Demonic World and plundered a large amount of resources from various forces in the Demonic World, including Fuso, to successfully complete the collection of building materials for "Yktra Hill", the first city in the Sky Island World. As for construction, it can be carried out through the "World Construction" function of the "World Tree Terminal". After all, the cost-effectiveness of purchasing building materials for a city is too low by purchasing world origin points.

Of course, during the city-building process, Luo Shu tried his best to avoid the involvement of outsiders. He did not want the secret of owning a world to be known by outsiders for the time being, unless it was someone like the Fourth Master's sisters who successfully wore the [Soul Oath Ring]. With the existence of this item, he did not need to worry about betrayal caused by changing their hearts.

Because Luo Shu had added a hidden effect to the Soul Oath Ring: "Anyone who changes their mind will lose the privilege of freely entering and exiting the Sky Island World granted by Luo Shu." He hadn't told the girls he was capturing this hidden effect. This wasn't a matter of trust, but simply a precautionary measure, a precautionary measure. The value of a world was truly exaggerated. Of course, as long as the girls didn't change their minds, the Soul Oath Ring's hidden effect wouldn't trigger.

After taking stock of the rough harvest, Luo Shu was teleported back to the bedroom on the eleventh floor of Qianying Apartment in the derivative world.

Before Yotsuba Miyuki came of age, Luo Shu had no plans to make the flow of time in the Demonic World and the Sky Island World converge. After all, he didn't really plan to wait eighteen years before summoning Yotsuba Miyuki.

At this time, it was only five and a half hours away from leaving the derived world here, and more than eleven hours away from leaving the sky island world.

Luo Shu glanced at the time and found that it was already one o'clock in the morning in the derivative world.

Luo Shu will complete the summoning ceremony when Yotsuba Miyuki turns eighteen, which is at the latest around six or seven o'clock tomorrow evening in the derivative world.

After that, he will make the flow of time in the Demonic World converge with that in the Sky Island World, so as to achieve cross-border cohabitation with the Yotsuba sisters.

And this time Luo Shu's journey to the evil world has come to a successful conclusion for the time being.

[The third volume ends here, and the fourth volume is about paradise.]

Book 4: Paradise

Chapter 1: Night Raid on Boyman's Mansion

As soon as Luo Shu returned to Qianying Apartment, he asked the World Tree Terminal to switch the phone number back to the derivative world. Soon he saw a bunch of unread messages on his phone.

Mainly, the three girls, Kurumizaka Ruri, Sasaki Setsuna, and Hamasaki Reina, wanted to tell Luo Shu that they each had some trivial matters to deal with tonight.

Luo Shu knew that Sasaki Setsuna was responsible for the makeup transformation of Yoshida Sho together with Kotakamine Setsuna.

The reason given by Reina Hamasaki was that her sister's birthday was tonight, so she had to go celebrate it for her sister.

As for Kurumizaka Ruri, she told Luo Shu that she planned to prepare the planning documents for the new company she and Luo Shu would set up tonight.

"Well, they can't come over tonight, so I don't have to bother finding excuses to get them away."

Luo Shu sent replies to the three women one by one, and then explained in his group chat with the three women that he had not replied to messages for the past few hours because he was busy dealing with some trivial matters. After hearing what Luo Shu said, the three women did not ask any further questions.

Luo Shu chatted with the three women for a few more sentences before closing the chat software.

He glanced at the time and saw that it was still a few minutes before midnight.

"Well, the teleportation anchors attached to the relevant alternate world heroines haven't triggered the alarm. However, since Chizuru Shiina from Class C and Chisato Mashiro from Class D are also attending Seishun Academy, we'll find a chance to attach teleportation anchors to them tomorrow. School has just started, so they shouldn't be poisoned by the alternate world hero so soon like in the original story. We'll ask the World Tree Terminal for final confirmation then."

Luo Shu thought for a moment, then opened the map on his phone and found the specific address of the Boyman family's luxurious mansion in the port area that Kurumizaka Ruri mentioned.

Boyman's luxurious private residence is located in Akasaka, where the largest number of wealthy people live in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Following Akasaka are Roppongi, Minami-Aoyama, Shibaura, Takanawa and Minami-Azabu in Minato Ward.

Back to the topic, Luo Shu changed into a nice and elegant suit, then he paid 1000 world origin points to the World Tree terminal and got the coordinates of the bedroom of the head of the Boyman family.

Then, he took out the imperial weapon [Shangri-La] and activated the dimensional array.

If ordinary people want to use the imperial weapon [Shangri-La], in addition to meeting the terrifying energy consumption of the imperial weapon, the user of [Shangri-La] also needs to obtain the specific coordinate information of the specific transmission location before activating the dimensional matrix, otherwise it will cause transmission deviation.

Luo Shu possesses the World Tree Terminal. When he has sufficient World Origin Points, these two restrictions on the Emperor's Equipment User of Shangri-La are equivalent to non-existence for him.

The trip to the demonic world fundamentally changed Luo Shu's view that the imperial artifact [Shangri-La] was "useless". Although this thing could not achieve the cross-border teleportation between two worlds like the teleportation anchor, it unexpectedly solved Luo Shu's personal problem of being restricted by the rules in the non-Sky Island world and being unable to directly teleport through space.

By inquiring at the World Tree Terminal, Luo Shu learned that the Akagi World corresponding to the Imperial Tool [Shangri-La] had a mysterious status far higher than that of the Inner Derivative World and the Demonic World.

Mystery yields to higher mysteries.

In short, if the Imperial Artifact [Shangri-La] is in a world with a higher mysterious status than the Zangaka World, its special ability of "transmitting regardless of distance" will become ineffective.

Therefore, Luo Shu planned to change the plan to attack Boyman's mansion tonight.

Before he had the Imperial Artifact [Shangri-La], he might have chosen to sneak in secretly, but now that he had the Imperial Artifact, he naturally planned to choose the most efficient way to complete this night raid.

Unfortunately, when Luo Shu found himself teleported to the private bedroom of the head of the Boyman family, the bedroom was empty.

He saw that the dim table lamp beside the other person's bed was emitting a warm yellow light, and the bedding on the bed was slightly messy.

He stepped forward and touched it, feeling a little residual warmth.

"Judging from the fact that the bedding still retains some warmth, Boyman must have gone to bed earlier. But for some reason, he got up again in the early hours of the morning and even forgot to turn off the lamp."

Luo Shu, through some details, began to deduce the reason why Boyman woke up in the early morning. Suddenly, he thought of something. "Wait, judging from the timing, the news I previously asked Detective Alice to spread has already been known by Boyman. So, could Boyman's insomnia be because of me?"

When Luo Shu thought of this, his face became a little strange.

At this moment, the superhuman five senses given to him by [Natural Flesh S] allowed him to detect footsteps approaching from far away outside the bedroom.

Luo Shu immediately activated the new etheric technique [Light and Shadow Camouflage A] that he developed nine years ago when he lived in the demonic world.

This technique was inspired by the chameleon. After activating it, Luo Shu could completely blend into the environment, becoming invisible on the spot.

However, [Light and Shadow Camouflage A] is a support-type technique specialized in visual senses. It is too extreme and therefore has obvious flaws. Its flaws are mainly reflected in the fact that after the technique is activated, if the caster makes some movement, he will inevitably reveal his footsteps and be discovered. This is because this technique essentially focuses on the single effect of falsifying and deceiving the information collected by the human visual senses, and cannot achieve the complex effect of deceiving the visual and auditory senses at the same time like an illusion.

However, this flaw of [Light and Shadow Mystery A] is not difficult to solve for Luo Shu, the developer of the technique.

Because Luo Shu had already upgraded his proficiency in the mysterious skill of [Soundproofing Technique] from D to A in the Demonic World, he immediately activated [Soundproofing Technique A] and created a small soundproofing area three centimeters from his body surface.

As long as Luo Shu is in the soundproof area within the range of the [Soundproofing Spell], and the noise he makes does not exceed the exaggerated decibel level of the roar of an airplane engine, he can avoid the only flaw of activating [Light and Shadow Camouflage A] that exposes his footsteps and causes him to fail in his on-the-spot invisibility.

Simply put, after Luo Shu combined these two sensory-specialized support techniques, the actual effect that could be achieved was no different from an illusion.

However, there is a limitation in casting illusions, that is, the target of the spell must be clearly defined when casting illusions, and the illusion cannot select the caster himself as the target.

When Luo Shu discovered this shortcoming of illusion when he was developing techniques in the demonic world, he began to think about whether he could combine specialized support techniques for human vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste and other senses to retain the strong focus on single effects of sensory specialized support techniques while avoiding the various drawbacks caused by the extreme specialization of specialized support techniques.

Through practice, he found that if the sensory-specialized spells were cast in an orderly manner and used in combination, they could also produce a complex effect similar to that of illusion.

Therefore, Luo Shu's ideas on the development and application of techniques were suddenly expanded. He found that the five sensory-specialized support techniques could be combined and arranged to form a rich combination of techniques and tactics.

The combination of the on-the-spot invisibility effect of [Light and Shadow Phantom A] and the on-the-spot sound insulation effect of [Sound Isolation Technique A] allows one to truly "disappear".

Just after Luo Shu "disappeared" from Boyman's private bedroom, the door was opened.

He looked at the door and saw a blond man with gold square glasses and flowing short hair walked in.

Luo Shu asked the World Tree Terminal and found out that this person was the current head of the Boyman family. He did not remember the name, but just referred to him as Boyman.

After he confirmed that the person coming was Boyman, he did not rush to take action.

Because after Luo Shu saw Boyman open the bedroom door, he directly blocked the maids who followed him outside the door.

Seeing this detail, he knew the reason why Boyman couldn't sleep tonight was probably related to the news that he asked Detective Alice (Shionji Yuko) to spread about the secret cooperation between the Boyman family and Norma Precision Manufacturing Company.

This means that the sudden plane crash involving Tsubaki Rurikawa's parents was very likely related to some cooperation between the Boyman family and Nomade Precision Manufacturing Company.

If this is true, perhaps we can find some clues about Nomad inside the Boyman Mansion.

But if Boyman is really an insider, taking him away tonight will inevitably cause a stress reaction from Nomad.

The previous purpose of alerting the snake was to lure out the poisonous snake Nomad. Now kidnapping Boyman is equivalent to directly telling the poisonous snake Nomad that someone is indeed secretly investigating their connection with some families within Fuso, and the results have been obtained. If the poisonous snake resists the urge to bite itself and chooses to lie dormant again, the situation will become quite troublesome.

After all, Luo Shu had just asked Detective Alice to release the news today that Boyman, the person involved, disappeared that night. As long as Nomad is not stupid, they will immediately cut off all ties with Boyman and even all families related to Fuso.

By then, it would be almost impossible to follow the clues.

Whether or not enough intelligence about Nomad can be collected will determine how much progress can be made in the relationship between Luo Shu and Alice Isis, two elf sisters from another world.

"Unless, I can allow Boyman to retain his self-awareness and, after tonight, unknowingly become a pawn who proactively provides me with a steady supply of intelligence about Nomad."

Thinking of this, Luo Shu suddenly had an idea, "How could I forget that Shen Ye is an expert in the field of mind interference magic. She has developed some special forbidden magic formulas that can influence the subconscious mind of the human brain.

Although the actual effects of these forbidden magics are quite modest due to the limitations of the thought magic system, if I were to refine them into etheric magic, the effects, while not as dramatic as Tanaka Hajime's Heavenly Blessing [Confusing Words], would be more than sufficient to inflict long-term mental suggestion on Boyman.

Luo Shu thought of this, his face looked a little strange, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"However, I never expected that the first person I wanted to actively influence in the derivative world would be someone with blond hair instead of a beautiful girl. This is truly a twist of fate..."

Chapter 2: Miss Mira also suffers from insomnia

However, feelings are feelings.

At this moment, Luo Shu could not think of a more reasonable and efficient means of control than exerting "mental suggestion".

The Luo Shu before might still have some concerns, but after spending more than ten years in the evil world, his mentality had already changed.

His moral bottom line at this time is much more flexible than when he first crossed over.

It can be said that from now on, he will do whatever it takes if necessary.

He will use any means to eliminate any obstacle that prevents him from becoming stronger.

After Luo Shu had an idea in his mind, he immediately chose to execute it.

However, the "mental suggestion" that Luo Shu wanted to impose on Boyman was not through directly casting spells on Boyman, but through invading his dreams.

Dreams are inseparable from the human body's deep subconsciousness.

He has never found a suitable experimental subject for the [Dream Weaving] function.

It's mainly the people from the Demonic World. They are limited by the mysterious status of the world itself. Even if the mysterious substances collected by invading their dreams are enough, it is just a drop in the bucket for the weaving and construction of the dream world of the Sky Island World.

The inner derivative world is obviously higher in the level of mysterious status than the demon world, so he can just invade Boyman's dream to impose mental suggestion on him, and use him as the first experimental subject to collect mysterious substances from the dreams of humans in the inner derivative world.

Luo Shu wanted to know whether the mysterious substance collected from the dreams of humans in the derived world was much different from that in the demonic world.

If the gap between the two is not big, he estimates that if he wants to complete the collection of the mysterious substances needed to construct the dream world of the sky island world, he can only do so by consuming the world's origin points.

However, he intends to use the world origin points to enhance his own strength, and will not consider investing them in the construction of the Sky Island World for the time being.

"I hope you won't let me down."

Luo Shu walked silently to the bedside and looked at Boyman who was sleeping soundly, with a cold light in his eyes.

"Boyman, I'm looking forward to your future performance."

He muttered something, then activated the [Dream Construction] function of the World Tree Terminal and began to refine Boyman's dream, that is, the spiritual world.

As a result, he discovered that someone had set up some kind of mental defense technique in Boyman's dream in advance.

Luo Shu immediately asked the World Tree Terminal and soon received a reply.

"The racial innate technique of the Dream Demon Clan in the demon world where Nomad is located?"

According to the information provided by the World Tree Terminal, Luo Shu learned that the innate skill that the nightmare is good at is called "Dream Weaving". Its racial habits are similar to those of the monster Dream-eating Tapir. It likes to feed on human dreams and nightmares. Human individuals who are subjected to the "Dream Weaving Skill" are equivalent to being marked by a nightmare.

"So, if I disrupt the spell, the other party will be able to detect it immediately?"

The World Tree Terminal gave an affirmative answer and explained to Luo Shu the peculiarity of the Dream Weaving talent of the Nightmare race. It lies in the 'dream sympathy'. Once a Nightmare's Dream Weaving technique is triggered, all Nightmare individuals from the same race will know about it, and then they will likely encounter a counterattack from the Nightmare group in their dreams.

At this time, Luo Shu knew very little about dreams.

He had no intention of using his own weaknesses to counter others' strengths; that would be too stupid.

Moreover, the World Tree Terminal has clearly mentioned that the dream-weaving technique on Boyman comes from the Dream Demon Clan in the demon world where Nomad is located. This directly confirms that the dream-weaving technique is likely to be an early warning mechanism made by Nomad to prevent the betrayal of his agents supported in Fuso.

Luo Shu estimated that once he destroyed the dreamweaving ritual in Boyman's dream, Nomad would immediately abandon Boyman.

"Nomad's style of doing things is really cautious."

At this time, Luo Shu had already connected his consciousness with Boyman's dream. He "looked" at the dream door in front of him that was covered like a spider web and led to the depths of Boyman's dream. He fell into deep thought.

"Is there any way to hack into Boyman's dream without triggering the Dreamweaver's warning mechanism?"

The World Tree Terminal silently gave a quote of 9000 World Origin Points.

When Luo Shu heard the reply from the World Tree Terminal, he laughed out of anger.

"Okay, nine thousand is nine thousand."

Luo Shu readily paid 9000 world origin points.

Soon, the World Tree Terminal gave a specific solution.

"Dream-eating technique?"

Luo Shu looked at the World Tree Terminal in astonishment at the innate technique from the Dream-Eating Tapir clan of monsters provided by it.

Moreover, he also learned about the Dream-Eating Tapir Clan in the derived world. Because of their racial talent, they were born with the special dream-weaving skills of the Nightmare Clan.

The dream-eating tapir is different from the succubus clan. The succubus clan prefers to eat humans' sweet dreams and tends to make humans indulge in sweet dreams. Humans affected by the dream-weaving technique will often have certain desires magnified.

The dream-eating tapir feeds on human nightmares and regularly controls the number of times humans have nightmares and sweet dreams in order to help humans maintain the stability of the dream world and thus ensure the health of their mental state.

Simply put, the Dream Demons tend to exploit humans for short-term gain, treating them as mere parasites. The Dream Tapir, on the other hand, is more concerned with maintaining a balance in the human dream world and the steady gains it reaps. They are also closer to humans, forming a more symbiotic relationship with them.

This led to the genocide of the Dream-Eating Tapir clan in the demon world at the hands of the Dream Demon clan, who had gained the favor of Nomad.