Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1074 - 132: The Nature of Trading (3rd Update)

Chapter 1074: Chapter 132: The Nature of Trading (3rd Update)

As the path of sublimation gradually becomes less pure.

The path of corruption also gained an "infamous" reputation.

Though nowadays, the corrupted have more high-tech methods of transformation—implanting shards of "appendages" within the body and entering nightmares of any difficulty. As long as they can come out of the nightmare, they can be directed to transform into the corrupted with specialized abilities.

All the "students" taught by Nicholas II, including Kafney, are such corrupted individuals.

But actually, the corrupted can also naturally transform—or to say, the initial corrupted were all naturally transformed.

As long as at the bronze level, they change their first desire into something "within reach," "exciting," and "easy to satisfy"—such as making a lot of money, taking someone attractive by force, killing someone they hate...

Whenever their strongest desires are satisfied, their power becomes stronger, and the next time the same desire appears, it becomes even more intense, harder to control.

And when this desire burns to its limit, their souls begin to descend. Each time a desire is fulfilled, it increases erosion... and naturally mutates when the erosion exceeds a certain degree.

Thus, the corrupted become stronger over time.

Each time they fulfill a strong desire, they grow stronger. It’s like training dogs or cats, encouraging them to "do such things."

Gods actually don’t discriminate against the corrupted. Because not all corrupted do evil, they simply lack any "long-term goals."

A tragic playwright, like that fellow, could also become a proper god;

And if there were any Spider-Man in this world who liked helping others, he too would become corrupted.

They are just recklessly pursuing the most intense, reachable desires in their hearts.

Rather than saying they are villains,

It’s better to say they are [fanatics].

As for the corrupted’s reputation completely deteriorating, that happened during the age of curse energy.

This technology of curse energy infinitely amplifies the dark side of a person’s heart.

Encouraging corrupted who "do whatever they want" naturally comes without any reservations.

Elves cannot become corrupted.

And essentially, elves are still colonizers. The natives of Aesirland, who saw the elves with their superior economies, technologies, and military as god-like, revered and feared them, but also harbored deep envy.

Those corrupted among the Aesirlanders, using curse energy recklessly, caused a lot of destruction. Initially amongst their own kind, then to foreigners, and finally, they even started targeting the elves—attempting to use elven technology to rebel against the elves.

After quelling the rebellion, the elves began to officially legislate to prohibit all races other than elves from using curse energy. And those non-corrupted from other races naturally blamed the corrupted for their reckless actions, weakening their existing privileges.

And it wasn’t actually wrong to blame them.

Those corrupted initially earned the trust of the elves and accessed curse energy permissions, not likely to be any villains. Instead, it was indeed the magnifying effect of the path of corruption on desires, combined with the curse energy’s ability to "make dreams come true," that made them gradually lose control and become arrogant.

From that time on, the word "corrupted" became an adjective describing someone’s character turning vile.

Or rather, it’s because of the limited space of Aesirland... that this evil idea continuously expanded.

The players’ desire to level up, to complete quests, also satisfies the needs of the corrupted.

But only the followers of the Chariot... could never be the corrupted.

Even though their "levelling" mode looks exactly like that of the corrupted, no player can become corrupted.

Because the "system" used by Annan, is obtained through the modification of the "Book of the Celestial Chariot" using remains of the Charioteer’s by the mysterious lady.

The party making this request was Annan himself.

Or should I say, it was the "Dark Annan."

The very term "system" was taught to the mysterious lady by him.

Annan believed that guiding his future self in this manner was more reliable than having the mysterious lady handle it herself—although he was somewhat discontent with the way he spoke, considering that Annan would undoubtedly understand himself better, the mysterious lady eventually agreed.

As for the materials used, they naturally came from parts of the Charioteer’s carcass.

However, Dark Annan was not aware of this.

Among the gods, only Lady Haoyun could freely traverse many worlds.

Thus, years ago, she sewed a part of the Charioteer’s carcass into the world’s underside, and now she must enter again to cut another piece. Being the keeper of secrets, the Faceless Poet naturally learned of this intelligence—and, as a matter of course, leaked it.

This "gift to oneself" was sealed within Annan when Dark Annan died and was "ignited" when Annan awoke.

"It might have been that cutting of the carcass that loosened the seal of the Charioteer a bit... allowing her light to overflow."

The mysterious lady analyzed solemnly, "The power that can make everyone’s temperament milder around, is clearly the [Purification] power she has leaked.

"Back in the days, it could calm and suppress the ashes’ desires; now purifying some mortals’ evil thoughts clearly wasn’t out of reach.

"But even if the power has leaked, that’s something that happened on the back side of the world. Probably only the Gold-tier Transcendents could sense the abnormalities. Not only the silver-tier Wizards, even the nobles as mere mortals have been ’purified’, which means another thing..."

"—This world has already been wounded. Like a bag filled with water being punctured, with water overflowing from the other side."

The Silver Baron picked up where the mysterious lady left off.

He looked towards Furnace Mountain, narrowing his eyes slightly: "This means... invaders from The Void World have already entered this world. At least by the time they realized something was here, something had already come in.

"But Mr. Radiance did not notice at all. This is impossible."

Mr. Radiance is the god of light and purification—essentially this world’s firewall.

There’s only one way to escape Mr. Radiance’s detection.

And that is "to never see the daylight".

As long as one is exposed to sunlight for a moment, they would be detected by Mr. Radiance.

"The demonic entities of The Void World are vengeful spirits of the world after death, without physical form, needing to attach to intelligent life; demons can steal the host’s memory; the demon that tunneled in here has been staying underground and has never gone out..."

The mysterious lady spoke slowly, "You know what I’m trying to say, right?"

"Ah, I know. Or rather I had a vague idea before I came here..."

"Then why didn’t you call grandmother?"

"Grandmother is usually fine, but she’s very extreme about ’resurrecting the dead’... especially when it also involves the Charioteer. If she knew about this, she might harness the forces of volcanoes and earthquakes to flatten this city entirely to seal off the influence. Then, I’m afraid she and the great-grandmother might end up fighting."

The smile on the Silver Baron’s face gradually faded: "So, I called Mr. Radiance here and had him enter underground first—

"This matter shouldn’t have been so troublesome. I believe Mr. Radiance can completely purify that demon... and you can re-sew the world’s loophole. The Faceless Poet can then bury this secret deep, ultimately achieving a similar effect as if grandmother came."

Upon hearing this, the mysterious lady suddenly felt a sense of oddity.

She couldn’t help but ask, "What about you?"

"I am of course responsible for calling you all here."

The Silver Baron said righteously: "Sharing what we have, that’s what a [Trade] can do. After all, trading itself does not produce any materials... which is quite reasonable."

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