Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1024 - 82 Annan’s Enemies

Chapter 1024: Chapter 82 Annan’s Enemies

Theoretically speaking,

the equipment named "Vatore’s Festival" by his senior truly compensated for all of Annan’s shortcomings.

The Shadow Fiend from Kafney significantly boosted Annan’s individual attack power in his normal state; while the shapeshifting spell directly addressed the issue of Annan’s lack of siege capabilities; "Decree: Dissolve" replenished Annan’s rather monotonous attack methods, preventing him from being targeted and countered.

After all, strictly speaking, Annan’s regular attack methods were the Radiant Element, Frost Element, along with Dragon Form and the secret Genesis held as his trump card.

...It could be succinctly called the Ice-Light-Dragon Verse.

Under these circumstances, what was most likely to cause Annan’s sudden demise was actually his own Brilliant Sword.

As a last-ditch ability, "Brilliant Sword" required taking damage before delivering a counterattack. This meant the lower his own state, the more likely he could be killed in a counter. Although the damage reduction of the Brilliant Sword had now surpassed fifty percent, being too greedy in one strike or suddenly receiving a major hit while at low health could still result in being killed.

For Annan, who now possessed the ability to heal himself, this was practically the only way he could be killed.

After all, last-ditch abilities are just like this... high risk, high reward.

...However, on the flip side, the original Annan lacked the kind of long-range, ultra-high-damage attack methods like the Brilliant Sword. Now, he actually didn’t lack the damage from this sword, and its stable damage reduction of over fifty percent became even more important to him.

Capable of attacking, defending, possessing relentless crowd control, continuously and efficiently healing himself and his allies, and even constantly reviving his teammates...

Such a leader was like an extremely well-equipped joint force communicator. His mere presence on the battlefield could serve as the core of the combat group.

"In that case..."

Annan finally realized— if a gold-rank Transcendent always stayed within their "adaptation zone," they were virtually invincible.

So far, all the gold-rank Transcendents Annan had defeated had, without exception, left their home turf. They had battled Annan in areas where they were not well-adapted.

But if he left his area of expertise, and lacked the abilities to make up for his weaknesses, he wouldn’t be much stronger than a silver-rank Swordsmen.

Take, for example, Annan had yet to master any stealth abilities, nor did he possess ultra-long-range strike capabilities. He also lacked the ability to move over long distances, as well as the mobility and quick response abilities over short distances.

That is to say, Annan was not suited for "continuous knife fighting"— in short and intense high-frequency combat, the "Will of Victory" could give Annan a super-strong check equivalent to his perception attribute in strength or agility checks.

But that was not a constant attribute.

This meant that if Annan was taken by surprise, he could not rely on super-fast reflexes to counterattack immediately.

Because his real agility attribute was only in the teens... the level of a slightly weaker bronze-rank Swordsman.

With the addition of the Shadow Fiend summon, Annan had even eliminated the possibility of being forcefully targeted by an assassin.

Even Annan himself couldn’t think of any weaknesses that could be exploited or any unexpected snags in his upcoming plans.

At the same time as feeling a surge of warm heartedness,

Annan couldn’t help but become more cautious.

After all, making a big leap in strength and impulsively claiming, "I am now invincible," is a very classic death FLAG...

It’s precisely the kind villains like to raise—especially the archenemies of the protagonists. Voicing this sentence pretty much means that their grace period with the new ability has ended, and they’re about to take a fall...

It was only because Annan knew Salvatore well.

Had it been someone else who said this,

Annan might have suspected whether they wanted to jinx him to death...

Moreover, objectively speaking, that "Grey Professor" underground wasn’t exactly an easy adversary.

And that’s not to mention his determination to forcibly split himself into two entities, "Grey Professor" and "Wolf Professor".

When Annan first encountered the Grey Professor in the nightmare of Gemini, in the guise of another person,

the Grey Professor had seen right through him.

Not only did he instantaneously deduce that he was in a nightmare, but he even foresaw the future—identifying Annan’s true identity!

You should know, at that time,

let’s not even talk about the issue of Black Annan or White Annan.

Even Ivan hadn’t been born yet!

Fate is the rut of the Celestial Chariot—the most significant trait of the Celestial Chariot is its ability to evade detection by Idol School and School of Prophets’ spells.

But if one were to say, "It’s precisely because the Prophet’s spells are ineffective that one can determine Annan is the Charioteer," that wouldn’t quite make sense.

Because, in that era, it would’ve been impossible to even hear news of the Book of the Celestial Chariot. According to the Faceless Poet, even some True Gods didn’t know that Annan was the Charioteer before they met him.

Without a doubt,

at least not until after Annan came into this world did the Book of the Celestial Chariot finally come into existence.

Before that, even if the Grey Professor truly heard some fragments about the "Charioteer" from the Book of the Praise of the Chariot of the Heavens, it would be utterly impossible to directly link the anomalies in reality to the Celestial Chariot, which hadn’t been born for thousands of years and only existed in fantasy literature.

This was simply irrational.

To this day, Annan still hadn’t fully understood... how the Grey Professor managed to recognize him decades before he came to this world.

And if one were to think along these lines, the Grey Professor might even know more.

The only information Annan had on Grey Professor Tricino Seti was about his actions as the "Dream Eater".

Drawing upon the students’ bright and fervent "dreams" and replacing them with smoothed-over and stable "realities".

The youths only felt they had matured, that their thinking had become more comprehensive. They abandoned their old unrealistic dreams and would never suspect the Dream Eater had tampered with them.

There was only one thing they would never know.

And that was that each of them actually had the potential to achieve their "unrealistic dreams".

—Of course, it was only a potential.

As long as they followed their original destinies, they would eventually develop abilities above a "minimum level to realize their dreams".

He even split away his "other self," the tragic playwriter Pope, severing his own Divine Ability.

Such a cunning old fox, although theoretically restrained by Annan... Annan wouldn’t underestimate him one bit.

Moreover, those enemies targeting Annan, and who must be dealt with by Annan himself, were not just him alone.

Apart from the two-in-one entities of Wolf Professor and Grey Professor, there were also the two big shots digging up the Charioteer’s grave in Winter Duke’s "Furnace Mountain", and Ingrid, who stayed underground.

—And then, there was the Rotten Husband, who had already been pinpointed by Annan and couldn’t run away.

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