Aurore opened her mouth, momentarily unable to understand what exactly was happening.
—Nimrod knew that Aurore in the "Kordu Village Dream" was actually a projection of her soul fragments in the dream. Therefore, after successfully using "Sefirah Castle" to enter the "Kordu Village Dream," Nimrod chose to use his identity as a fellow "transmigrator" to build rapport with her.
Aurore's value needed no elaboration. As the most important anchor for Lumian—the Calamity of Destruction, half-body of the Original Creator, Cheek, the wild father of the Original Hunger, there's not enough room here for so many people, Tudor Lee—building rapport with Aurore was equivalent to building rapport with Lumian.
And Lumian was the master of this dream and one of the important chess pieces of various deities.
Nimrod understood that even though he had "Sefirah Castle" to conceal his aura, since he had suddenly been sent to this time point by the countdown on his hand, even the "Sefirah Castle" that symbolized incomplete concealment and change would find it difficult to completely hide him from deities like the Goddess of Night and Adam.
Therefore, if he wanted to survive in this world filled with dangers, he had to improve his power as much as possible—and digesting the Beyonder characteristics he already possessed and obtaining new Beyonder characteristics was obviously the simplest way to enhance his power.
Standing aside, Lumian watched Aurore's frozen expression and carefully spoke to Aurore, trying to keep his voice as low as possible:
"Sister, do you know this person? Does this person have a relationship with you?"
"...Perhaps."
Aurore's expression was complex as she shook her head at Lumian, indicating that Lumian should make room for her:
She needed to confirm the identity of the person before her before she could let him into their home!
Aurore positioned herself at the door and cleared her throat:
"I need to ask you a few questions to confirm your identity before I can let you in."
She prepared to use Chinese throughout her conversation with this mysterious guest to confirm his identity:
"Odd changes, even doesn't change?"
"The sign depends on the quadrant." Nimrod answered immediately.
"How are you?"
"I'm fine, thank you."
"Palace jade liquor wine?"
"Is there a possibility that I'm from the south and don't watch the Spring Festival Gala much?" Nimrod pushed the monocle on his face, but feeling it was really uncomfortable, he took it off again:
"One hundred and eight yuan a cup. Fortunately, I know this meme. These codes are all played out—can they really verify my identity?"
"Didn't we just match them up?" Aurore raised her eyebrows, a trace of relaxation appearing on her face: "Haven't you encountered other transmigrators before? When did you transmigrate?"
As she said this, Aurore waved at Lumian, indicating that Lumian should open the door and let Nimrod, who was standing outside, come in.
Lumian followed his sister's instructions while looking at Nimrod, who was slowly entering the door, with resentful and vigilant eyes:
He couldn't understand anything his sister and Nimrod had said, only knowing that some rare relaxation and melancholy had appeared on his sister's face.
Lumian had never hated being an occult illiterate as much as now.
Nimrod answered without thinking, stating the excuse he had already prepared:
"2025."
"Twenty-five?" Aurore immediately exclaimed in surprise, with some puzzlement in her tone: "That's much later than when I came to this world..."
At this point, Aurore's voice paused as she vigilantly looked around. After closing the door, she skillfully set up a sealed "Wall of Spirituality":
"We'll talk about these things later. Sir, I need to confirm something now... why did you appear in my brother's dream?"
When saying this, Aurore switched to Intis, and Lumian also directed his gaze to Nimrod, looking ready to stand in front of his sister at any moment if Nimrod showed anything wrong.
"Dream?" Nimrod's tone became somewhat strange for a moment, but the strangeness in his tone lasted only an instant before being suppressed: "First, I need to confirm something—you should know about the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence, right?"
"Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence"... Lumian's heart stirred as he quietly memorized this term he had never heard before.
For him, who had always wanted to gain Beyonder power to protect his sister, knowledge related to Beyonders was always something Lumian thirsted for.
A trace of obvious hesitation appeared on Aurore's face. After a long while, she nodded reservedly:
"I know."
"I suspect there's something special about your brother. I tried to enter his dream, and that dream is the best proof." Nimrod considered his words carefully and said to Aurore in front of him:
"I originally had no intention of coming here—the reason I suddenly passed through your village might be because I was converged by the Beyonder power on him. Friend, you shouldn't have been preventing your brother from obtaining Beyonder characteristics all along. The world is quite dangerous now, and he has already become entangled with the Beyonder world."
"Moreover, it's not a shallow entanglement."
"As for me... after stepping into this village, I was trapped here by some force. Before this, I used some Beyonder means to obtain key information that would allow me to leave here, but I didn't expect it to be on a 'compatriot's' brother."
Nimrod spoke softly, his last sentence said in Chinese.
If he remembered correctly, Aurore was a Sequence 7 "Witch" with certain divination and decryption abilities. She would inevitably divine whether there were lies in what he had said.
But there wasn't a single false word in his words.
—He had indeed used Beyonder means to know the location of Lumian's dream, but that Beyonder means was called "Sefirah Castle."
—He was indeed a "transmigrator" who had crossed over from 2025, although Aurore and other Old One remnants were not.
—He was indeed trapped here by some force, though those forces were not what the two suspected.
Aurore stared at Nimrod in front of her for a long time, then slowly nodded and reluctantly said:
"I believe what you're saying."