Ghost Butler's consciousness cloud and the Head-Mirror Race's consciousness network were somewhat similar. Both could process information to a certain extent, but the consciousness network leaned toward letting information flow, while the consciousness cloud leaned toward storing information.
Simply put, the Head-Mirror Race's consciousness network allowed a large number of individual consciousnesses to interact, generating a flow of information through those interactions.
The consciousness cloud, meanwhile, had Ghost Butler as its core. By distributing "verification codes," he allowed others to qualify for entry into the consciousness cloud and store the information they obtained within it.
This unique talent was the foundation that allowed Ghost Butler to command such an enormous amount of intelligence.
He could scatter his subordinates throughout the Mirror Realm. The moment they discovered useful intelligence, they could upload it to the consciousness cloud at once.
This gave Ghost Butler access to vast quantities of intelligence.
Yet merely storing intelligence was not enough to make Ghost Butler stand out. Another crucial reason he could become a "Butler" was that, through the consciousness cloud, Ghost Butler could borrow other people's computing power to achieve a supercomputing boost.
Simply put, the more people connected to the consciousness cloud, the stronger Ghost Butler's computing power became.
So-called computing power encompassed data-processing ability, information-analysis ability, and the ability to integrate diverse knowledge.
With all three abilities bolstering him, Ghost Butler could conduct in-depth analyses of the intelligence stored in the consciousness cloud.
Much hidden intelligence was actually concealed within seemingly harmless information.
For example, the surface intelligence might be: the price increases of certain goods.
But after computational analysis, it might ultimately yield another conclusion: this was the result of multiple forces battling behind the scenes.
From a glimpse of one spot, calculate the whole leopard.
The storage of diverse information, combined