"Sorry, something came up in Backlund, so I got back late." After settling Longzeel and Snoeman, Sno returned to the ancient castle in East Chester County, travel-worn and weary. Looking at Audrey, who was enjoying afternoon tea, he apologized sincerely.
"Ah, I just got here too." Seeing Sno, Audrey instinctively wanted to hide the cute pastry in her hand behind her back, but then remembered there seemed to be nothing to hide. She immediately laughed awkwardly.
She was not merely being polite. In truth, she felt a little secretly delighted that Mr. Devil was not home, because that meant she could openly eat these novel and interesting pastries. Well, and those introductory books.
"Although it is rather rude to disturb a lady during afternoon tea, I still need to go to Bayram later, so can we begin now?"
Sno pulled out a chair and sat across from Audrey. Hearing that, Audrey immediately nodded.
"That's no problem, but Mr. Devil, have you completed the ritual? Have you already finished your advancement?"
"More or less, though the aftereffects are rather serious."
Sno nodded lightly and rubbed his brow hard.
Perhaps it was because he had skipped class, or perhaps the Paradox Pathway itself had such troublesome issues. In any case, Sno's mind was constantly receiving excessive amounts of information.
After all, each monkey had originally been single-threaded, but now the monkeys had become virtual machines. This meant that all the intelligence received by the monkeys still had to pass through his primary consciousness in essence.
Although, theoretically speaking, his current soul was the product of countless monkeys gathering together again, making it not difficult for him to bear this information, his human way of thinking still found it hard to adapt to processing such massive amounts of information simultaneously.
It was like