The Path to Godhood Begins from the Otherworld

"It's hard to say, but there are only two possibilities for using mithril in the construction field."

Luo Shu rubbed his chin. "The first possibility is that the Demon Realm where Normad lives doesn't fully appreciate the value of mithril and simply treats it as a building material. The second possibility is that the Demon Realm's mithril reserves are incredibly abundant, perhaps even as abundant as iron ore in this world."

"What color is mithril?" Jinghe Ashaji thought about the more famous minerals in the demon world. "Mr. Luo, can you give a brief explanation?"

"The raw mithril ore should be the type with a silvery-white appearance. Its texture is much stronger than steel, yet very light."

Jinghe Ashaji heard this and suddenly felt that she had seen this description somewhere before. "Silver-white?"

"Yes, is there one in the demon world?"

"Yes, but most of it is used as slag." Jinghe Ashaji thought for a moment, "Because this silvery-white substance consumes a lot of energy and magic power to smelt, it is called silver sand and is often used in the construction field."

"Silver sand?" Luo Shu heard this and took a look at the description of mithril on the World Tree terminal. He found that mithril ore was indeed accompanied by metals. It was indeed formed in a gravel state under natural conditions. As for mithril blocks, it had to be processed at high temperatures and mixed with magic power to be smelted. "Are there abundant reserves of this silver sand in the demon world?"

"There should be quite a lot. I heard that when the demon world mines metal ores, silver sand is often sold at a low price."

"What a waste of resources." Luo Shu's mouth twitched when he heard that. Because of the [Fantasy Exchange] of the World Tree Terminal, one hundred grams of Mithril is worth one World Origin Point. This thing is actually quite valuable.

"Mr. Luo, could it be that this silver sand, no, mithril, is very valuable?"

"Mithril is certainly valuable, but what's even more valuable is the actual technology used to smelt and process it. I guess the demon world hasn't realized the value that silver sand can create in the magical realm yet."

When Jinghe Ashaji heard this, there was a hint of thought in her eyes.

"Ms. Jinghe, do you know that your silver sand production is higher in the Demon Realm?"

"I don't know much about it." Jinghe Asaki shook her head. "In fact, after the time and space passage in the Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees was blocked by the top leaders, the Taimanin's intelligence exploration of the demon world came to a standstill for a long time."

"Are you saying that after the Taimanin Squadron was incorporated into this world's Fuso government, it no longer participated in intelligence gathering against the Demon World?"

Luo Shu was a little surprised, "Why is that?"

"The Aokigahara Forest's leadership is saying that maintaining the inter-world space-time channel in the Aokigahara Forest is very expensive, and the Fuso government hasn't increased funding, so intelligence gathering on the Demon Realm has been forced to stagnate. Furthermore..."

"Miss Jinghe, are you suggesting that, coupled with the increase in demon attacks in Tokyo in recent years, the Fuso government's control over the Manin Squadron's top brass has weakened?"

"Yes, to put it simply, it's a check and balance between the two sides." Jinghe Asaki smiled bitterly, "It's not that the Taimanin high-level officials don't want to reopen intelligence gathering on the Demon Realm, but the Fuso government is more inclined to maintain its own interests, so..."

"The factional struggle among the Taimanin high-ranking officials seems to be mixed with political struggles."

Chapter 32: Breaking the Door

Upon hearing this, Jinghe Ashaji was speechless.

"Okay, let's put the Mithril matter aside for now."

Luo Shu yawned, "Can you roughly determine your sister's location now?"

"Northeastward, but this corridor seems a little strange. We must have walked a long distance."

"The interior of this building features a stacked circular corridor design." Luo Shu pondered for a moment, "Well, you've heard of the Möbius strip, right? The interior corridors of this building are constructed in that style."

"Doesn't that mean we've been going around in circles?"

"No, you sensed that your sister's position has not changed, right?"

"Yes, it has always been in the northeast and has not changed."

"It should be space folding technology. Although it's still a bit rudimentary, but to be able to achieve this level, it's no wonder they were able to develop an incomplete portal technique. Nomad, or the Demon Realm, has a very good level of research in the field of space magic."

"Mr. Luo, we're here." Jinghe Asaki suddenly stopped in front of a door. "I can sense that Sakura is behind this door."

"sure?"

'Um. ’

Luo Shu looked at Jinghe Ashaji standing near the door. He moved closer and suggested, "This door is enclosed by a strong barrier. Try to see if you can break it."

"Okay." When Jinghe Asaki heard what Luo Shu said, she didn't think much about it. She took a deep breath silently, took out her ninja sword from behind, and swung it at him.

"Peng..."

A strange, dull sound echoed throughout the circular corridor.

"No effect?" Luo Shu watched as the barrier's strength subtly increased after Jinghe Ashaji slashed the door. "No, Miss Jinghe, was your own magic power mixed into that slash?"

"Yes."

"Don't mix in magic power, just try to use the slashing attack. This sealing barrier has the property of absorbing magic power."

Upon hearing this, Jinghe Ashaji did not ask any more questions and did as she was told.

When she swung the slash again, she resisted the urge to inject her own magic power into the ninja sword, and instead swung the ninja sword simply with her wrist strength.

This time, after the slash hit the blockade barrier, a crisp sound similar to shattering glass was heard.

"really."

Luo Shu looked at the spider-web-like cracks in the blockade barrier, and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes.

"Mr. Luo, what is this?"

"The barrier on the door should be opened from the inside. Opening it from the outside can protect against magical attacks, but not physical impacts."

"Can't defend against physical impact?"

"Simply put, the barrier is connected to the building's energy circuit. No matter how much magic power is injected, it will only be absorbed by it. Unless the magic power injected at once is enough to explode the entire building, it will be impossible to shake the barrier."

Luo Shu never expected that Nomad's blockade barrier had actually been applied to the field of architecture.

"It seems that Nomad's research on sealing barriers in the Magic Workshop is quite advanced."

"Mr. Luo, are you saying that as long as we continue to use brute force to attack, we can destroy this blockade?"

"Yes, the barrier is essentially a special pigment painted on the door. Magical attacks will only be absorbed and converted, but physical attacks can destroy the integrity of the pigment."

Luo Shu quickly analyzed the weakness of the sealing barrier. "After all, the collision between the slash and the door will cause vibrations. The paint on the surface is artificially attached to the door. Once it encounters a strong external impact, the vibration will cause the paint to peel off the door."

Jinghe Ashaji was a little confused after hearing this.

"Mr. Luo, I don't quite understand. Anyway, I can just continue to attack with brute force, right?"

"Correct."

Luo Shu nodded slightly, "And, it has to be done as soon as possible. I can feel some kind of defense mechanism being triggered."

"Defense mechanism?"

"Do you remember what I said? Are the individual rooms in these buildings independent magic workshops?"

"remember."

"For magicians, when setting up a magic workshop, they always arrange defense mechanisms. After all, for a magician, attacking a magic workshop is equivalent to declaring war on it."

Upon hearing this, Jinghe Ashaji immediately realized that time was running out, and the frequency of her swings increased a lot.

Extremely fast sword skills?

I remember that in the original work of Taimanin, it was specifically noted that Asaki Igawa was a Taimanin who specialized in swordsmanship.

Now this expressiveness finally highlights this feature.

However, this kind of strength will still be taken advantage of. Well, I can only say that this is the special treatment unique to the heroine in the other world.

It seems that the inner derivative world and the demon world have equally obvious malice towards the heroine of the inner world.

We can only hope that the other world where Princess Alice and the others are is not like this.

It has to be said that Jinghe Ashaji was so eager to save her sister that after the frequency of her subsequent accelerated swings increased, the progress in destroying the blockade barrier also increased a lot.

More importantly, Luo Shu also felt from Jinghe Ashaji's body that the upper limit of her magic power showed signs of abnormal growth.

Is this the growth of the Taima Ninja bloodline in the body?

A growth-oriented distinctive bloodline?

No wonder Nomad is interested in the Jinghe sisters.

Luo Shu had spent more than ten years in the demonic world, so he understood the importance of bloodline inheritance in the magic element system.

However, even in the inferior world of magic, the Yotsuba family's magical talent inherited through blood is not stable and does not have very high growth potential. This is mainly because the inferior world of magic restricts the upper limit of the magician's bloodline growth.

Of course, this constraint was only established after Luo Shu killed Shiba Tatsuya in advance.

Simply put, for the world, it is acceptable for the bloodline of individual human beings to be inherited, but there are often restrictions on the upper limit of its growth.

Luo Shu could only pray that the rules of the Demon Realm to which Jinghe Ashaji and the others originally belonged had not been destroyed as much as the derivative world in the Demon Realm, otherwise...

There is a space-time channel in the world where the rules of both worlds are broken. Who knows whether these two worlds will trigger a chain reaction of world collapse in the future.

He suddenly thought of the elven prophecy that the sisters Alice and Isis had mentioned in their previous secret conversation.

Luo Shu originally thought that the birth of the Savior of the Two Worlds was based on the need to deal with the possible invasion of the Derivative World and the Tree of Life World by the Demon World. Now it seems that perhaps the two worlds mentioned by this so-called Savior of the Two Worlds may refer to the Demon World and the Derivative World.

"I hope it's not the latter, otherwise the situation will become very complicated."

Luo Shu sighed and watched Jinghe Ashaji finally destroy the blockade barrier. He followed her and pushed open the door with her, disappearing into the circular corridor.

Chapter 33: Ambition

Just when Jinghe Ashaji and Luo Shu broke through the blockade on the door and stepped into the room where Jinghe Sakura was imprisoned, she found that Luo Shu was missing.

Jinghe Ashaji felt a little strange because she could sense that Luo Shu's magic power was still around her.

However, there was no trace of Luo Shu in her sight.

However, before Jinghe Ashaji could think about what was going on, she heard a voice that was exactly the same as the clone's voice.

"You finally came."

When Jinghe Ashaji heard the voice, she had to focus her attention on her temporarily.

Luo Shu had no patience. After the sealing barrier on the door was broken by Jinghe Ashaji, he immediately used the outstanding perception given to him by [Natural Physical Body S] to realize the number of demons in the room.

Therefore, Luo Shu activated [Light and Shadow Maze A] immediately and became invisible on the spot.

He felt very unhappy when he heard that this guy didn't attack the moment Jinghe Ashaji opened the door, and even had time to talk nonsense.

Therefore, Luo Shu chose to take action.

Then, Jinghe Ashaji saw countless afterimages flashing in the room.

Immediately afterwards, countless demons hiding in the darkness were cut into pieces, and the blood mist that burst out enveloped the entire room.

"Do you really think she's the only one in this room?"

Luo Shu confirmed that only a single human presence remained in the room. He released the spell on himself and revealed himself. "Ms. Jinghe, have you forgotten what I told you before? Every room in this building could be a magic workshop? You dare to hesitate in the enemy magician's territory. Are you trying to save your life?"

"...Mr. Luo, were you invisible just now?"

"The combination of light and shadow that conforms to the magic formula actually only interferes with the human visual sense."

Luo Shu explained briefly, and then he sensed the life signals of hundreds of demons appearing outside the door. "Your sister is on the test bench in the middle of the room."

"Thank you." Upon hearing this, Jinghe Ashaji immediately realized that she had almost made a big mistake. She did not continue to ask questions, but walked into the room silently.

"Let's go."

Luo Shu watched Jinghe Ashaji carry Jinghe Sakura on her back. He used the World Tree Terminal to confirm her condition and found that she was in an abnormal state of paralysis, but her clothes were still intact. It was likely that she was not harmed. He couldn't help but feel relieved.

"Mr. Luo, is Sakura okay?"

"She must have been poisoned by some paralyzing toxin and is now unconscious." Luo Shu briefly explained, "By the way, the Long you were talking to just now was also just a clone."

"Another clone?" Jinghe Ashaji was stunned. "What's going on?"

"Who knows?" Luo Shu naturally wanted to find out what was going on. "Stop talking nonsense. There are a lot of demons outside. Let's retreat first."

"Do you want to fight your way out?"

"No need." Luo Shu said to Jinghe Ashaji while binding the teleportation anchor to Jinghe Yinghua, "Just carry your sister on your back, stay where you are, and then close your eyes, recite silently for three seconds, and then open your eyes."

"I understand." Jinghe Ashaji didn't ask too many questions. At this moment, she saw that Jinghe Sakura was safe and sound, and her trust in Luo Shu was significantly improved.

Luo Shu looked at Jinghe Ashaji who closed her eyes obediently, and without much hesitation, he first left a teleportation anchor point at the original place so that he could turn back and conduct follow-up investigations.

Then, he took her and Jinghe Sakura and teleported back to the Sky Island world.

"Mr. Luo, can you open your eyes?"

"It's okay." Luo Shu didn't expect Jinghe Ashaji to be so obedient. A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes. "It's safe now."

After hearing this, Jinghe Ashaji opened her eyes nervously, only to find herself in a bright square.