Mysterious, but Naruto

Alger was being so cautious mainly because the island they were currently docked on was not a major island like Roside Island, Blue Mountain Island, or Simim Island.

The island beneath our feet is just a small island in the Rosede Sea. Although the Church of the Lord of Storms has been built on the island, it has almost no armed defenses.

If this were on one of those large islands, Alger wouldn't be too worried even if he were targeted by the rebels. He would only need to fire a shot into the air, and within five minutes at most, a substitute would arrive quickly.

But if they fight the enemy here, the church members might not only be coming to collect their own corpses, but they might also perish together.

This is actually one of the reasons why Louis chose to act here; he just wanted to lure the fools into a trap, not that he was really preparing to go to war with the entire Church of the Storm Lord.

Even this contact was just that—a single contact.

Louis's idea was to leave an impression on Alger, to make him aware of several altered forms and appearances.

As for what happens next, it's about having Alger actively search for and gradually uncover the so-called "Akatsuki" organization.

This way, no one will suspect anything, and even if the Fool of the Future directly searches Alger's memories, he won't notice anything unusual.

After all, all of this was information that Alger actively investigated, so its credibility is naturally higher.

Therefore, this will be a long-term task, and the longer it goes on, the less likely it will arouse suspicion.

At the same time, Louis also received a document from Count Hall, which contained the extraordinary knowledge that his family had collected over the years.

It contains secrets, information on powerful individuals, recipes, and the origins of extraordinary materials.

Thanks to the Hall family's years of service to the Church of the True God, they even have some knowledge of some of its internal sealed artifacts.

This involves not only information about the Church of the Goddess of Night, but also other churches such as the Church of the Lord of Storms and the Church of Steam.

In addition to these, there is information related to the kingdom and the various families.

But when Louis examined the information closely, he discovered that it was all miscellaneous and lacked depth, mostly just recording a superficial situation, with no more detailed information.

Louis could understand this, since the Earls of East Chester had never been extraordinary, so they naturally couldn't truly integrate into this circle.

Even if some of this information is obtained through other means, it will still be incomplete, just like it is now.

However, Louis was still quite satisfied with this information, at least it filled the gaps in his knowledge of extraordinary subjects at a lower level.

Combined with the knowledge he gained from the light gate, his exploration of this world was no longer entirely based on guesswork.

Suddenly, Louis remembered something, so he went to his study and found a few tabloids among a pile of old newspapers.

The headlines in these tabloids are extremely exaggerated, claiming that high-ranking government officials are not human, but rather a group of grotesque monsters capable of changing form.

However, considering the information provided by Count Hall, Louis was speechless when he looked at the newspaper again.

According to the intelligence, the royal families of the four kingdoms all originated from the "Angel Family" of the Fourth Age, with a history of over two thousand years, and most of their core members are extraordinary beings.

Even though the Republic of Intis overthrew the original rule of the Soren family, their family was still the ruling noble family.

Putting aside the fact that some potions can change a person's appearance, even if they maintain the appearance of an ordinary person, once those extraordinary individuals advance to Sequence 4, that is, enter the Saint stage, their life form begins to evolve into a mythical creature.

In that case, the fact that the nation's top leaders are not human is not entirely wrong. In fact, the person who wrote this report may have even encountered a high-sequence mythological being.

In addition, there are reports that say the world they are in is fake, and that they are actually living inside a giant painting, etc.

Using the information gathered, Louis learned that in addition to the material world where he was currently located and the spirit world where the divine tree space was located, there was actually a star realm in this world.

If the spirit world is the information repository of this world, containing all information about the past, future, and present, then the astral realm is the code layer.

The astral realm is a collection of symbols and authority, corresponding one-to-one with the real world, but in a completely different form.

A star that exists in the real world looks like a paintbrush mark on a curtain in the astral plane.

From this perspective, it's not entirely unreasonable to say that the whole world is a huge, concrete yet abstract painting.

Furthermore, the newspapers stated that the current seven gods are not the true gods, and that the real gods reside elsewhere.

Louis searched around and, surprisingly, the intelligence did indeed contain it. It said that before the Seven Gods, there was an ancient sun god, and in that era, the goddess of night was a villainous god who was hated by everyone...

As Louis meticulously reviewed the intelligence reports, his brow furrowed more and more, especially when he came across an exaggerated headline that proclaimed a terrifying demon from beyond the heavens was about to descend.

The Hall family's intelligence reports contained no corresponding information on this point, but other information in the newspaper could be found to provide a similar connection.

Even if the information wasn't actually as exaggerated as reported in the newspapers, the corresponding prototypes could still be found.

So what is this so-called extraterrestrial demon? You should know that the article says that the seven gods are located above the divine kingdom precisely to resist the demon.

Louis unconsciously rubbed his chin with his fingers: "The Great Demon from Beyond the Heavens, the Great Demon from Beyond the Heavens, what on earth is this talking about? It can't be... me, can it?"

Louis found the term "outer heaven" easy to understand, and he, as a time traveler, perfectly fit the criteria.

If we're talking about a great demon, how come a divine tree that can devour all living beings in the world isn't considered a great demon?

Louis then recalled the feeling he had when he first moved the Divine Tree space, a feeling that was clearly like passing through some kind of barrier.

"No way, could that really have been a seal set up by the seven gods?"

The more Louis thought about it, the more convinced he became that the person described in the newspaper was himself, or that the lodger inside him, Otsutsuki Shibayo.

Louis finally put down his newspaper, ready to pretend he hadn't noticed anything.

After all, while he wasn't exactly a bad person, he was at most a little kind. Asking him to sacrifice himself and actively seek out the Seven Gods to seal him again was something he shouldn't even think about.

At most, after learning about this, Louis prepared to be more careful and discreet in his future actions, avoiding direct conflict with the Church of the Seven Gods to prevent them from discovering his existence.

"Well, from now on I'll just be Sir Hermite, I'm not familiar with any otherworldly demons."

After dinner, Count Hall presented Louis with another great gift: a thick stack of Russell's diaries.

Well, Russell was just too dazzling back then, and his diary was too mysterious, which naturally attracted the curiosity of countless people.

In fact, not only the Hall family, but also other noble families, or people with spare money and curiosity, almost all collected Roselle's diary, only in different quantities.

However, because the contents of Russell's diary have never been deciphered, and because he wrote it continuously for decades, people do not know exactly how much he wrote in total.

This means that collectors will occasionally discover a page they haven't collected before, and so far no one has been heard of actually collecting all of Russell's diaries.

Compared to the intelligence gathered by the Earl of Hall's family, the contents of this diary are the real treasure.

Judging from the dates on the diary, it spans more than forty years, which is precisely the period when it was most active in history.

[On February 23, 1943, I had been in this world for over a week. I need to write something and express some things, otherwise I feel like I'll go crazy.]

Hehe, I'm writing in simplified Chinese, so no one can possibly understand it, since the world is all alphabetic writing!

I am now Russell Gustav, but I will never forget my real name.

Huang Tao!

I don't know exactly how I time-traveled. I thought about it carefully for a long time before I remembered that a few days before I time-traveled, I bought a very mysterious silver plaque. It was engraved with some strange symbols and patterns, which was very interesting.

...]

Louis locked himself in his study and read through his diary line by line.

When Louis saw the words "old man" and "old woman" on the first page of the diary, he felt as if his heart had been gripped tightly.

In the past few weeks, I had been deliberately avoiding this question, not thinking about how heartbroken my parents would be to hear the news, and not thinking that I would never see them again.

He simply pretended that none of this had happened, and that he had just gone on a business trip to a distant place.

But when he looked at the ugly, distorted words in front of him, piecing together the two words he least wanted to recall, his lower eyelids could no longer hold back the tears, and the emotions he had been suppressing finally broke down.

At that moment, his mind was filled with memories of his family.

When Louis first awoke, he was happy to find that his nearsighted eyes had been restored, but at that moment he felt immense hatred.

I hate that my eyesight is abnormal, that I can still see the words in my hand even through tears, and that they can seep into my heart one by one.

The diaries collected by the Hall family, in total, amounted to less than 20,000 words, but Louis read them for a whole night.

His emotions rose and fell with the words as he read, sometimes smiling knowingly, sometimes frowning and sighing, sometimes reaching out to touch the words on the paper, and sometimes turning his head to gaze at the moonlight outside the window.

When a ray of morning sun rose through the window, illuminating the paper in his hand covered with Chinese characters, Louis realized with a start that a whole night had passed.

But he just stared blankly at the sun outside the window, feeling that everything was so unreal.

"I……"

He opened his mouth, but Louis didn't know what to say.

He clearly had a lot to say, but now he couldn't say anything at all.

When Louis first read Roselle's diary, he felt like he was reading Warhammer's autobiography, a story of a protagonist who is overpowered and arrogant.

When he first transmigrated, although he suffered a little and encountered some trouble, in the end none of them could really stop him.

In particular, Roselle, through his knowledge and power, transformed the original god of craftsmen into the god of steam.

When Roselle was young, due to his lack of knowledge, he did not know that the highest level of the potion sequence was unique, and that only one god could be found through the same pathway.

Because he chose the path of the God of Steam, his greatest achievement in this life could only be to become an angel under the God of Steam.

To others, this was already an immense fortune, but Roselle felt that as a time traveler, "a true man should not remain subservient to others for long."

After much effort, he actually found a solution: adjacent pathways can be interchanged at higher sequence levels.

However, the path that Roselle himself chose, the "Generalist" path, leads to the "Secret Seeker" path, which is blocked by a hidden sage.

However, none of these challenges deterred Russell, who, after some research, found another way.

That is, through his series of preparations, he forcibly jumped to the "Lawyer" pathway, Sequence 0, "Black Emperor".

But as we see more, we realize that this is not entirely true. The reason why Roselle was able to hold onto his achievements in the early stages of development was largely because he was recognized by the God of Craftsmen and became the Son of Steam.

Later, when he came to power and came to power, he realized the true extent of the power of the Church of True God.

And the Sauron family, which he overthrew, was incredibly powerful in the Fourth Age; they were truly beings that even the gods could look upon as equals.

Moreover, Louis learned about Russell's assessment of the world from it.

It confirmed that this was a planet, and the combined area of ​​the northern and southern continents was less than one-tenth of the planet's surface area.

It wasn't until Roselle learned through some ancient documents that the Lost Lands and the Western Continent existed in this world—the homeland of the elves who loved to eat blood products and used chopsticks.

In addition, there are the laws governing the conservation of extraordinary properties, the conservation of extraordinary properties within similar sequences, and the aggregation of extraordinary properties...

After reading the entire diary, Louis felt his mind was full, yet his heart felt empty.

He looked at the sun in the sky and felt a surge of emotion.

The next moment, he became transparent and disappeared from the room.

As Louis rose higher and higher, the things he could see became smaller and smaller.

However, correspondingly, the scope of what it can see has also become increasingly wider.

1万米、2万米、3万米、4万米……39万米、40万米。

As he raised his body to this height, Louis noticed something amiss.

His eyes transformed into the Rinne Sharingan in the next moment, and through these eyes, he saw a scene that ordinary people could not see—a huge barrier that covered the entire planet.