So, what did these chaotic numbers represent to form a cipher and convey information?
Perhaps fools would think they were step counts or something similar when associating them with the Principal's [Space Magic], but Faith didn't care about that.
To him, it had to be text, with each digit being a letter.
Recall the fundamental principle of ciphers that Faith mentioned at the beginning, that "the characteristic of language-based ciphers is that the encoded characters must repeat because of the reusability feature of language." Here, that was exactly what was happening.
The digits were not digits; they were letters. In other words, this entire mess of number sequences was a text.
And although it wasn't separated but clumped into a single block, making it impossible to identify which word was which, Faith could still use another method identical to the general definition mentioned above; he could even use this very fact to deduce the rule.
