Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1140 - 191: Shadowless

Chapter 1140: Chapter 191: Shadowless

Seeing that blood moon, Annan instantly drew a breath of cold air.

Although he still hadn’t figured out where this was.

But seeing the color of the moon, Annan instinctively felt, the people in this village might all be quite hospitable...

"Thank goodness... the Curse Binding item is still here."

The first thing Annan did when he woke up was to reach for his chest.

He immediately confirmed that the necklace with the Philosopher’s Stone, which was also Annan’s Curse Binding item, was still hanging in front of his chest.

And at the same time, Annan also felt a slight heat and warmth on his left shoulder.

That was the [Curse Bind: Unborn Endymion].

This also meant that the body Annan was using was probably still his own.

However...

Annan got up from the bed and looked around.

He found himself inside a little wooden cabin.

It didn’t look like a residence for a normal person, rather it resembled a hunter’s cabin. Mounted on the wall, there was a white deer head and an old-fashioned hunting rifle.

There was a simple clothing rack in the corner of the room, along with several pots of thick-leaved deep green plants. The room was bathed in a faint red glow, making the atmosphere seem a bit sultry...

But for some reason, Annan always felt that the layout of this room was a bit off. But at the moment, he couldn’t figure out exactly what it was.

"...Hmm?"

Annan stood up and saw that there was a television in the room!

Although it was the old-fashioned kind, looking like an oven or microwave, it was indeed a real television.

Upon closer inspection, there indeed were electrical wires in this room. To the right of the television, there were two knobs, and underneath the cabinet, there was also a video player. To the left of the television, there was a row of video tapes with some markings on them.

"...Has my sensing range also been suppressed?"

Annan murmured.

If this had been his own world, at this distance, Annan wouldn’t even need to use his eyes. The layout of the entire room could be instantaneously sensed by him, even the objects hidden in wall crevices or tucked inside the drawers could be directly perceived.

But here, Annan’s base attributes and fundamental abilities had been suppressed to that of an ordinary person.

—Fortunately, Annan still retained his higher Transcendent abilities.

Annan sensed for a moment. He could roughly confirm that his Elemental Power was still usable. Abilities above the Gold rank should also not have been completely sealed.

Then this was not the worst-case scenario.

Moreover, although almost all of Annan’s curses including "Siren of the Third", were not brought in.

Apart from his Curse Binding item, the gift from Salvatore— the ring named [Vatore’s Ceremony: Shadow Within Shadows], was also brought in by Annan.

...It was uncertain if Kafney’s "Shadow Fiend" could be summoned from this world. However, [Death Omen: Emergency Teleport], which required all charges to be used to teleport directly back to Salvatore’s side, was probably unusable.

After all, Salvatore had not entered this nightmare.

But the three skills [Strong Curse Dispel], [Phantasmal Shaping: Intense Heat Ray], and [Decree: Dissolve] were still somewhat usable.

In order to replenish light energy for [Unborn Endymion], Annan simply removed his shirt—wearing only a vest, he put on the deer leather boots that were at the side of the bed and walked towards the television at the other end of the room.

Looking at the thick glass screen with its crackling and popping static noise, Annan felt quite nostalgic.

Come to think of it, when he was a child, his family had owned this kind of television. It used to be quite common... but by the time he entered middle school, he had never seen one again.

He didn’t touch the television immediately, but instead looked at the video tapes next to it.

There was a noticeable gap in the middle of these tapes.

There was probably room for one more tape—then the quantity would be just right.

Those video tapes didn’t have covers, neither was their content spelled out.

But they all had white tape on the corner, with a series of numbers written in black ink, likely from a marker pen.

There was a total of seven video tapes, and the labels on all of them contained only three digits.

Annan checked repeatedly and confirmed that the labels were respectively: "123", "456", "789", "147", "258", "369", "159".

"...A keypad?"

Annan immediately recognized what it was: "Is [357] missing?"

If the numbers one through nine were placed in a grid like a keypad or calculator... then these would exactly be seven groups of numbers arranged in three horizontal, three vertical, and one diagonal line, with the rule that numbers are arranged from smallest to largest.

Then, according to this rule, the missing video tape should be numbered 357.

Annan pondered for a moment and tried to push the room’s door.

The result was as he expected.

—Unmovable.

Completely unmovable.

Even the old door latch didn’t shake at all. It was as if the door and the wall were completely fixed in space.

"...Stuck as always."

Annan complained, "Is this a puzzle-solving type of Otherworld level nightmare?"

That shouldn’t be the case.

This puzzle seemed too simple. It shouldn’t be enough to justify the weight of an Otherworld level nightmare.

However, from the previous Otherworld level nightmare Annan had observed, it might just be an introductory plot.

"I hope it’s not going to make me watch seven tapes before I can leave..."

Annan murmured as he casually picked a tape and skillfully inserted it into the VCR.

"Speaking of which, I wonder if their introductory tasks over there also involve watching tapes..."

Annan suddenly worried, "Can they really figure out how to use this thing?"

He pondered, retreating back to the bedside.

Watching an interlude similar to the opening of a movie appear on the TV.

This TV screen was really old, getting too close made Annan very uncomfortable... probably due to the low refresh rate. Even from afar, Annan felt the images were being displayed exceptionally slowly, like a slideshow.

"My eyes are about to go blind."

Annan complained as he casually took off his jacket.

This was to allow the Curse Binding on his left shoulder to be exposed to light smoothly.

—Because Annan could only operate in the dark for thirteen hours.

If he did not expose his left shoulder to a light source for thirteen continuous hours, Annan would feel an increasingly intense burning sensation. At the very end, it would feel like keeping a hot iron pressed against his shoulder.

And a higher-ranked Curse Binding can override the effects of a lower priority one.

The pain-diluting Curse Binding that Annan had acquired previously did not work on this Curse Binding.

...Wait a second?

Annan was suddenly stunned after removing his clothing and still feeling the burning on his left shoulder.

He suddenly looked up at the red moonlight.

This moonlight... can’t be used to consume my Curse Binding?

But the moonlight from his world could clearly do it—

He paused.

Looking down again, he scanned the room once more.

It was then that Annan finally noticed something wrong.

Why had he always felt something off about this room?

Because everything in this room.

—Cast no shadows.