Elliot searched through her records, but his scalp soon prickled.
It was not that he could not find her records, but that there were simply too many of them!
There were dozens of pages, every one densely packed with all sorts of records from top to bottom!
There had been no news of her Spirit Body since it sank.
This was because the Difference Engine could not directly control her Spirit Body, and she did not even count as a Believer. Elliot had directed her to Dive through spoken orders.
So the information he received from the Difference Engine was extremely sparse. Basically, he could only tell whether she was still diving or had stopped.
But at some later point, information about her had suddenly become plentiful. Elliot was searching for that moment.
After spending some time on it, his eyes finally lit up, and his finger stopped after a message:
[Believer Elsa Ramsey has completed revival.]
"So that was it. No wonder the information became much more detailed afterward. It was because she had come back to life."
What followed was a dense mass of repeated messages:
[Believer Elsa Ramsey is using Burial.] [Believer Elsa Ramsey has seen a Secret History and fallen into Permanent Madness!] [Believer Elsa Ramsey has drunk Honey, regained Rationality, and cleared the Permanent Madness status.] [Believer Elsa Ramsey is using Burial.]
Elliot's scalp prickled as he read.
"What level of [Secret History] did she see, for a single glance to plunge her straight into Permanent Madness?"
"And this [Honey] can actually pull someone back from Permanent Madness. That's simply unbelievable..."
Permanent Madness was a Believer's complete loss of control, their reason exhausted and their will forever lost.
It was an irreversible state that no Formless Art, Ritual, or secret