Mysterious, but Naruto

After finishing his dinner as usual, Louis went to the Divine Tree Space, but this time he didn't go to see his little rabbits. Instead, he went to find the new mouse.

The mouse is in bad shape; it remains stiff and motionless even now.

If Louis hadn't been able to detect the intense mental activity within it, he might have mistaken it for an ordinary rat experiencing a seizure.

Considering that this rat—no, that thief—was already on the verge of going out of control, and now it has parasitized the rat's body.

For safety's sake, Louis, as was his custom, created a clone, and all contact with and inspection of the rats was carried out by that clone.

While his clone was working, Louis himself wasn't idle either; he went to record the data of that group of extraordinary rabbits.

Since his several extraordinary rabbits had already digested the Sequence 9 potion, Louis was ready to make further attempts.

However, due to Louis's current limited supply of only two Sequence 8 "Trick Master" Extraordinary Crystals, only two rabbits can attempt to advance for the time being.

Louis was recording the condition of the two rabbits as they ate the extraordinary crystal.

Because they had completely digested the potion before advancing to the next rank, their condition was completely different from when Louis forced the rabbits to advance last time.

In the last experiment, the rabbit only went completely out of control and died after consuming the extraordinary crystal of Sequence 7 "Astrologer".

In reality, after consuming the extraordinary crystallization of Sequence 8 "Master of Tricks", his mind had already become confused, but the situation was not particularly serious.

This time, however, none of these problems arose. The whole process went smoothly, and Louis noticed that both rabbits had received power from the spirit world, increasing their spirituality.

However, due to the inherent characteristics of extraordinary crystals, the increase was not as significant as when taking a normal Sequence 8 potion.

Next, Louis separated the two rabbits, letting one have an ordinary rabbit as its audience and the other having an extraordinary rabbit as its audience.

Louis wanted to see just how different a Sequence 9 Extraordinary Rabbit was from an ordinary rabbit in the eyes of the Three Realms.

After dealing with the situation on the Extraordinary Rabbit's side, the check on the clone's side was also almost complete.

Louis checked the clone's condition and, after confirming that there was nothing wrong, released the clone to examine the returned memories.

After standing still for several seconds, Louis opened his eyes and looked at the rat with pity.

However, Louis then discovered something unusual in the other person's memories.

The mouse in front of me, whose real name is Flora Jacob, is a descendant of the Jacob family in the Fourth Age.

During the Fourth Age, the Jacob family controlled the Thieves' Path and supported the establishment of the Tudor Empire, making them one of the five great families second only to the Blood Emperor.

After the Blood Emperor fell, his family was also hunted down by the Church of the Seven Gods.

Although the family's situation is not as good as before, it is still a top family that has produced angels, and it still survives well even when facing the Church of the Seven Gods.

However, there is a problem: the five great houses of that time were the House of Abraham, the House of Ammon, the House of Antigonus, the House of Tamara, and the House of Jacob.

Of these five families, the Jacob family and the Ammon family both follow the path of thieves. According to the three laws of extraordinary characteristics, these two families are locked in a battle of paths, an absolute and irreconcilable conflict.

These families already had dealings with each other. Unlike the seven major churches, which attacked from the outside, the Ammon family seized the opportunity to deliver a vicious stab to the Jacob family from behind.

At that time, the entire Jacob family was almost wiped out by the Ammon family.

The reason it is so serious is that they take the path of thieves, which gives them the ability to parasitize and steal identities.

Once the other party seizes the opportunity and steals the identity of one of the family members, they can easily infiltrate their ranks and wipe out the rest of them as well.

To prevent this from happening again, the surviving members of Jacob's family divided the original large family into small, unconnected households.

This did prevent the Amon family from taking the opportunity to wipe them out, but it also limited their chance to band together and grow stronger.

Thus, the once-powerful Jacob family completely declined.

Flora Jacob, who is standing right in front of us, is the last member of Jacob's little family.

Judging from this person's memory, his family had lost most of its heritage due to years of constant travel and fleeing.

Not only are the potion recipes incomplete, but the corresponding extraordinary knowledge is also almost nonexistent.

By Flora Jacob's generation, the family's complete potion recipes only reached the Sequence 7 decryption scholar.

Because of the pursuit by the Church of the True God, she actually managed to advance all the way to the Rank 5 Dream Thief by herself, relying on her half-baked knowledge of occultism.

When Louis was looking at this part of the memory, he discovered something: the thieves' abilities had been emasculated, and the most core ability to steal had been removed.

Flora Jacob also learned the truth after digging through the outer layer of the treasure left by the Jacob family on the outskirts of Backlund, finding and consuming a Sequence 4 parasite.

It turns out that starting from Sequence 8, the Thief pathway they belonged to had its core capabilities crippled due to the malicious influence of higher-level Sequencers.

Starting with the Sequence 9 Thieves, they possess an ability called "Exceptional Observation," which allows them to directly sense valuable items within ten meters, although they cannot identify what those items are.

Normally, this ability will be further enhanced when you reach Sequence 8 Scammer. Not only will the sensing range increase, but you will also be able to distinguish the types of valuable items to a certain extent.

However, due to the nerf, this enhancement has disappeared, and it can still only vaguely sense valuable items within 10 meters of itself, just like in Sequence 9.

Similarly, by the time the Sequence 7 decryption scholar arrives, this ability should be further enhanced, with additional observation of subtle clues and hints, but due to the castration, these are no longer present.

This situation becomes even more serious when it comes to the Sequence 6 Fire Thief. Under normal circumstances, it can briefly steal other people's extraordinary abilities for its own use, secretly steal items from other people's bodies from a distance, or put dangerous items into the hands of the target.

As a result of the castration, the Sequence 6 Fire Stealer only has half of the abilities from the beginning; the abilities to steal and hide items are gone.

After advancing to Sequence 5 Dream Thief, the original stealing ability will be further enhanced. Not only will the stealing range increase to 80 meters, but the time for stealing will also increase from ten minutes in Sequence 6 to half an hour. Furthermore, if you only steal and do not use it, you can forcibly remove this ability from the other party for a week.

As a result, after the castration, the part that was stripped off in the second half disappeared completely. However, this was not the most serious problem. The core ability that was truly stripped away was the ability called disguise.

This ability allows dream thieves to disguise themselves as followers of other gods, bypass defenses, steal responses, create various types of talismans, or steal responses in battle through longer incantations or pre-arranged plans, gaining some kind of enhancement or using a certain ability.

All of the above abilities were not released again until the user was promoted to Sequence 4 Parasite.

Because its life has been partly mythologicalized and its connection with the spirit world has deepened, it can no longer be easily concealed as before.

In fact, this ability to be stripped up earlier and then returned in Sequence 4 is also a pitfall.

When a person advances from Sequence 5 to Sequence 4, the essential nature of life is partially mythologized and biologicalized, which is a threshold that is quite difficult to cross.

At this time, the spirit world crams in a lot more information, which naturally makes it easier to fail in the promotion process.

Flora Jacob was one such person. Due to incomplete inherited information, when she opened the family treasury, she was unaware of the corresponding traps and not only suffered some injuries but also activated the seals within.

In order to escape successfully, Flora Jacob immediately took an extraordinary ability, hoping to use the new power to escape.

The result was that he was overwhelmed by a large amount of spiritual information and almost suffered a mental breakdown. It was from this point that he was already on the verge of losing control.

At this time, Flora Jacob was also in bad condition, but if given time, she could use her parasitic ability to parasitize others and gradually stabilize their condition and recover from their injuries.

However, when she opened the family treasury and activated the traps, she made quite a noise, which attracted the attention of MI9 personnel.

Flora Jacob, due to a mental breakdown, instinctively attacked the MI9 agent, stealing his ability to control the enemy, which led to the fight between the two.

Louis frowned because he realized that his previous judgment of Extraordinary combat ability based on Flora Jacob's battle with the MI9 agent was too one-sided.

After reading Flora Jacob's memories, Louis learned what abilities she had gained from the spirit world after advancing to Sequence 4.

It can not only steal abilities and items on a large scale, but it can even steal other people's minds.

It was only because Flora Jacobs was in such poor condition at the time that she was unable to fully utilize her newly acquired abilities; otherwise, that MI9 agent would probably have been taken down in a single encounter.

"Well, after all, it is a saint who is transforming into a mythical creature. By analogy, it should possess the Tenseigan, Rinnegan, and other abilities of a ninja with some of the ancestral Otsutsuki bloodline. This makes the comparison much more normal."

Having learned about Flora Jacob's situation, Louis began to struggle with how to deal with her.

At least it provided him with firsthand research data, giving him a deeper understanding of saints, the path of thieves, and the loss of control over the extraordinary. It wouldn't be right to just throw it directly to the divine tree to devour.

After much deliberation, Louis decided to create a clone of himself to attempt to separate Flora Jacob's memories and mind.

The plan is to first categorize all of the other party's memories, then extract a portion of them, and finally seal away another portion.

He wondered if he could alleviate the other person's mental stress in this way, thereby pulling them back from the brink of losing control.

If it succeeds, it will be a reward for Louis gaining experience and for obtaining the experimental data from before.

As for the failure, it can only be said that the other party was unlucky, after all, her current state is not much different from death.

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Si - Wei - Shen - Hai - Wu - Yin

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

In a private hunting ground on the western outskirts of Backlund.

In front of Earl Hall, her mother, and her elder brother, Audrey demonstrated the power of the Fire Release technique she had learned.

Because Audrey lacked mastery of this ninjutsu, she couldn't properly control the amount of chakra she used when releasing it.

He poured almost all of his chakra into this ninjutsu at once.

All the chakra gathered in her throat, and Audrey spewed a huge fireball forward from her mouth, then her whole body went limp and she was about to fall over.

It was only thanks to her older brother's quick thinking and agility that Audrey didn't actually fall.

Although releasing ninjutsu without reservation in actual combat is practically tantamount to suicide, the effect is undeniably impressive.

When the fireball first flew out of Audrey's mouth, it was only a few centimeters in diameter. After flying three meters away, its diameter expanded to half a meter.

When it finally took shape, it was a huge fireball with a diameter of more than five meters.

The huge fireball flew about twenty meters before crashing onto the grass with a loud bang.

It's important to know that this Fireball Technique isn't just about spewing out a ball of flame; the fireball explodes from the inside out after hitting its target.

When the fireball landed, it created a crater seven or eight meters in diameter, which captivated Earl Hall and his companions.

"Audrey, what about the other ninjutsu? Do they all have the same effect?"

Faced with her father's question, Audrey hesitated for a moment and said, "Father, besides this Fire Release technique, I've only learned the Shadow Clone Technique. I'm still learning the others."

After catching her breath, Audrey regained some of her strength and immediately began to draw chakra again.

Bang!

As Audrey formed a hand seal, a cloud of smoke rose from the ground. When the smoke dissipated, Earl Hall saw two identical daughters standing before him.

However, Count Hall then noticed that one of the "Audreys" looked somewhat ethereal, especially some parts of her body that reflected light in an unnatural way.

So Earl Hall tentatively reached out his hand, but as soon as he touched her, the "Audrey" in front of him shattered into a cloud of dust.

Audrey was somewhat frustrated that her alter ego was so easily recognized by her family, and she puffed out her cheeks slightly.

Fortunately, she quickly calmed down and even took the initiative to explain to the others.

"This is just the lowest level E-rank clone technique. It's called a clone, but it's actually just an afterimage. It has no physical form, no consciousness, can't attack, and will shatter if touched."

However, Mr. Liudao said that although this clone technique is of a low level, it is the foundation of all other clone techniques with physical bodies. Only by mastering it can one learn other clone techniques such as shadow clone and lightning clone.

Those clones created by the clone technique are the real clones, with their own physical form and consciousness, capable of performing simple tasks, and even replicating the caster's original body.

Ah, chakra is truly amazing!