731 Foundation Stone of Propaganda
"Ouch!"
"Aiooo!"
"Yiek!"
The students let out varied shrieks as they plucked their hair strands and began to tie them together. Their mistakes were plenty and a majority of them lacked the flexibility of fingers to accurately tie a knot on the short hair strands.
"Hold it in the gap between your nail and finger like this." Inala approached one of the students and explained the process in detail. His voice was a whisper, please to the ears, causing the student to feel like he was in a trance before feeling sleepy.
Inala's peaceful voice was sleep-inducing. As he slowly explained, Prana gathered at his throat before he opened his mouth and emitted a small packet of sound.
Mystic Royal Art—Universal Slip!
The packet of sound travelled through the boy's ear canal and formed a Piezo Slip on his eardrum. And while Inala talked, in frequencies inaudible to the human ears were Zinger Shrieks, emitted alongside his regular-sounding dialogues.
This Zinger shriek slammed into the boy's ear drum when the Piezo Slip vibrated captured it and vibrated accordingly, translating the contents into a form recognizable by the human brain. The signals were faint but encrypted, so the brain didn't register any message for the time being.
However, the information was gathered by it, just not processed.
Universal Slip was a form of Piezo Slip that could be engraved on the eardrum on a target which can absorb Zinger Shrieks and convert them into a form suitable for the respective body's brain to process and gather the information from.
However, due to the condensed information characteristic of a Zinger Shriek, the volume of information would be too complex for the brain to understand. Only after the individual falls asleep and most of the brain becomes free would this encrypted information be decrypted.
Then, the information within the shriek would appear in the individual's dreams. This was how Universal Slip worked. And the best time to use it would be when the target individual was in a state of concentration.
When in concentration, the brain diverts a larger portion of its processing capabilities to the field the body was focused on. This works to the Universal Slip's advantage, as it would immediately be shelved by the brain for later processing.
It was the easiest to use on Iron Grade existences due to their brain's limited processing capacity in comparison to Higher Grade existences. Moreover, it was something whose effect was pronounced upon significant, extended use, so it couldn't be applied in a battle.
Universal Slip was one of Inala's tools to brainwash the people over the course of time. It was created so that he could have a perfect cover while transmitting propaganda content to his students and other people.
Any unassuming individual wouldn't even know what was happening when conversing with Inala. Only at night would they experience the contents of the Universal Slip in a dream. Moreover, it would be a dream at the end of the day, so the majority of its contents wouldn't even register in their mind once they wake up.
This was also why most lectures were conducted manually instead of feeding everything through an Information Slip. It was faster to learn it manually than learning it through an Information Slip and spending a longer time adapting it into a form suitable for their psyche.
However, the information gained through the Universal Slip would be broken down, analysed, and displayed in the target's dreams. By that point, it was already converted into a form suitable for their psyche.
Dreams were unstable. Inala used that characteristic to his advantage. Even though this reduced the consistency and quality of information retained by the target, as long as Inala repeated the same for multiple days, the result was more than worth the effort.
He was basically feeding the targets information that they assumed were gaining naturally.
"Keep practicing it until tomorrow," Inala said and dispersed the class, spending only an hour with them. He had to teach a total of five such classes daily, with each costing an hour.
After the final class ended, he exited the classroom, which was basically a random hall in one of the Decodus Trees. No Academy of the sort had been established at the Noikatol District yet as the teachers were working professionals who taught classes part-time.
As the number of students was also minimal, MunuBuntara kept each class in a vacant room. Every day, Inala would be assigned a room in a different Decodus Tree. All the classrooms were multipurpose halls.
'Well, it works either way.' He thought as he exited, greeting a familiar face as he used the Skills of Universal Slip and Dual Speech in conjunction.
"How was your first day?" Wepetay asked with curiosity.
"Normal, I guess." Inala smiled, barely able to conceal his disappointment, "None of them seem to possess the passion I hope to find in this field."
"That's unfortunate." Wepetay sighed before shaking hands with Inala, "Well, you'll have to excuse me, Sir Binala. I'm leaving for the Noikatol Kingdom in a couple of hours."
"So soon?" Inala expressed his shock.
"Yeah, I arrived only to introduce you personally to Lord MunuBuntara. Since that's done, I've been ordered to return to my post. I'm pretty much my Lord's representative, so I need to be stationed at my designation." Wepetay said and excused himself, "Let's meet in the future when I return, Sir Binala."
"The pleasure's all mine," Inala said and accompanied Wepetay alongside his family to the railway station. He acted like he was helping Wepetay load the luggage onto the railway when in truth, he was using the Skills of Universal Slip and Dual Speech.
Since both were unleashed through sounds beyond the audible range of Wepetay and the rest, and the amplitude was faint enough, Inala's actions went undetected.
"Farewell," Inala waved his hand as he watched the railway leave for the Noikatol Kingdom. He turned around and walked away, acting ignorant of what he had done. 'I've just laid the foundation stone.'
'Now, to build a castle of propaganda.'