Adonis's 'Omniscience'

CANC's current influence was so weak that it was strange for them to know such secrets.

Enoch and the others had long grown used to and trusted Adonis, so they did not care.

But Lan Mu could have asked that question. It would have been stranger if he had not.

Adonis replied, "Exploration was out in the open, especially decades ago. During Napoleon's era, Contained Objects were used recklessly, and nations openly plundered treasure from their colonies, so it was not really classified."

"As for Contained Objects... to be honest, as long as I know something happened, I can infer what caused it from the inconsistencies involved, and then learn all the properties of that thing..."

"I see..."

Lan Mu suddenly understood. Adonis had been granted 'omniscience,' but it seemed to apply only to things he did not understand. In other words, its authority was locked onto 'Contained Objects.'

Furthermore, if a Contained Object had been completely hidden, caused no impact on the world, and had never come to Adonis's attention, then he would not know it existed either.

Take the bronze teapot in Golden City, for example. In this era, Israel had kept his mouth shut and acted in secret. No one knew he had gone looking for Golden City, much less the bronze teapot.

Everyone had been drawn to the two major events of him burying the royal family's Contained Objects and helping America gain independence. They believed his search for the supposedly nonexistent Golden City had merely been a reason, an excuse, for taking several Contained Objects to the Americas.

Only when someone used gold manifested by the bronze teapot and caught Adonis's attention—making him wonder where that gold had come from—would he learn that it had been produced by the bronze teapot, and thus discover all