Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength-Chapter 1293 - 1287: Disguise

"Catherine, we... shouldn't have gone to the wrong place, right?"

Returning to human society.

Catherine was in quite a good mood, and Ronald also thought it was a good thing. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

But as the land became increasingly clearer to their eyes, while Ronald could already see some details on the ground, this slightly fortunate feeling changed instantly.

Because with Ronald's excellent vision, he had already discovered activities by people at the seaside, but at the same time, in his spell perception, the number of humans didn't match what was seen visually at all.

In short, it seemed that some non-human presence was mixed among the people here.

This was also a situation Ronald encountered fairly often.

"..."

"Ronald, are you saying there's a problem here?"

Meanwhile, facing Ronald's suddenly changed tone, Catherine immediately slowed down her flying speed and said:

"Earlier when using [Psychic History], I only followed how to confirm the location method, and completely didn't calculate the other parts."

Catherine first explained the results she had previously probed.

Then she was rather generous, even somewhat unbelievably proactive in revealing her spell drawbacks to Ronald:

"And honestly speaking—this ability of [Psychic History] has a lot of limitations when used. After all, it's still a capability to predict the future based on existing information; it can't create something from nothing."

"Just like I can confirm encountering land and humans here, and obtaining information—that's because with you and me as base points, along with auxiliary elements like the ocean and sky's inherent information, the final result was calculated."

"To truly understand what problem exists here, it would also require personally walking through it to obtain accurate results."

Ronald nodded, expressing understanding.

Then he also asked about other doubts that arose from this explanation:

"Catherine, I understand the things you mentioned."

"However, speaking of which—since [Psychic History] has so many limitations, then when you were in the [Infinite Negative Domain], how did you obtain prophecy content related to me and [Four Directions Heaven]?"

Catherine immediately had a naturally deserved smile appear on her face:

"Information about you and the outside world was naturally inferred from the information painstakingly inserted by those [Nine Commandments Meetings]."

"As for [Four Directions Heaven]..."

Mentioning this, Catherine couldn't help but laugh:

"Initially, I was entirely unaware of their invasion. But one day during calculation practice using [Psychic History], this peculiar phenomenon suddenly emerged from the magma lake beneath Barrier Mountain."

At this time, Catherine shrugged, her lips showing a deftly helpless smile:

"Since they opened the interdimensional passage in such a place, they can't blame me for discovering it so easily?"

"..."

"Alright."

Ronald hadn't expected the truth of the matter to be this way.

Concluding this peculiar yet clever conversation, he then continued forward with Catherine, preparing to land at the mainland's location.

This was a necessary choice.

After all, if they wanted to quickly figure out their location, they certainly needed to communicate with the people on the island to obtain information.

Otherwise, they couldn't just turn back and continue aimlessly flying around on the vast sea, right?

As they gradually approached, the images on the land became even clearer.

These were a group of humans working, most of whom were handling fishing gear, while some children were playing around with the adults here.

And those non-humans that Ronald's spell couldn't detect were mixed among them at the moment, even fully integrated into human life. If not paying attention to spell detection's details, it was quite easy to regard them as actual humans.

"Second from the east, sixth one, and the one carrying a net bag..."

"These ones pointed out aren't human beings."

Ronald pinpointed the situation below with precision.

Upon hearing this, Catherine murmured spells softly and added the newly acquired information into the conditions, starting [Psychic History] calculations.

"..."

High above, Ronald stood silently beside Catherine.

Not intending to expose themselves immediately, they had elevated their flying height considerably, so while observing the activities of people below, the beach workers hadn't noticed Ronald and Catherine's arrival.

This time, Catherine's prediction took noticeably longer than before.

Two whole minutes passed before she finally came out of the [Psychic History] calculation state:

"Ronald, these humans and non-humans know each other's identities, with a portion existing in a summoner-summoned relationship."

Upon Catherine's statement, Ronald became alert.

Back during [Entrold], the invading creatures from the strange world had left quite an impression on him, not to mention that he had just dealt with the changes of [Four Directions Heaven].

The current situation on the sea indeed made one inevitably think of those aspects.

Ronald couldn't help asking:

"Then what is their purpose in being active here, what do these summoners or the creatures they summoned achieve by blending into human society?"

"Ronald, don't be nervous."

Compared to Ronald's serious expression, Catherine was much more relaxed.

She first comforted Ronald, then calmly explained:

"Based on spell calculation results, these humans and non-humans are content with their current lives; they don't have any strong aggression and there's no sinister plot that would cause us trouble."

"..."

Catherine's answer greatly reduced Ronald's tension.

However, he also didn't completely lower his guard because of this.

After all, this Astrology Tower Master had also previously mentioned that the result of Psychic History was a conclusion calculated based on existing information. Even though the accuracy was high, there still existed a probability of calculation error.

Therefore, Ronald proposed:

"If that's the case, we should go down and test the waters first."

Catherine had no issue with this:

"Anyway, we need to go down and ask for directions, so it's all up to you."

"..."

Considering the impact of their appearance, Ronald and Catherine didn't unabashedly descend directly from the sky.

The two of them quietly broke trees from distant lands, then quickly carved out a few planks. After doing some slight disguise of appearance, they took the planks to the sea and approached the shore in the guise of shipwrecked people.

The working people on the shore were already paying attention to the situation at sea.

Soon after, they noticed the figures of Ronald and Catherine approaching.

The crowd immediately surged towards the beach.

Aside from some diving into the seawater, there were various shouts:

"There's someone over there!"

"Looks like shipwrecked people, come over and check!"

"Someone is floating over from the sea, hurry and save them!"