Super Righteous Player
Chapter 186 - 184 I Want to Exploit a Bug_1

Chapter 186: Chapter 184 I Want to Exploit a Bug_1

[Nightmare Purified]

[Purified the nightmare as a designated identity, rating increased]

[Sever the Curse: Tongue in the Mirror, rating increased]

[Ensured Tan Juan survived until the end of the instance, rating increased]

[Learned the entire truth, rating significantly increased]

[Completed a potent purification, rating significantly increased]

[Overall rating——A++]

[Gained 68 public experience points, perception +1]

[Received instance completion reward: Profession (Swordsman) level increased by 1]

[No Profession (Swordsman) detected]

[Hidden elements decrypted: 100%]

[Eligible to claim the third phase reward (granted at 100% completion)]

[Received instance decryption reward: Randomly usable spell (’Soul Reaping’, ’Transformation’, ’Shaping’, ’Idol’, choose one)]

[Current purification rate 3/3——Nightmare concluded]

[Based on the nightmare’s location, you received the Silver Baron’s Holy Imprint]

[Current total imprints: 3 (Silver Baron)]

...It’s finally over.

Annan watched as the text in front of him rapidly scrolled by, sighing softly.

The good news was, he indeed obtained many details of Tan Juan’s behavior from Tan Juan himself. This would undoubtedly make his impersonation more authentic...

The bad news was, even Benjamin didn’t know what the Church of Rot intended to do, nor did he know the specifics of how their ritual was to be conducted.

After all, he wasn’t the him of the future.

As a "person from the future," Annan couldn’t expect his future enemy, Benjamin, to know and answer his questions...

"However, I can tell you something else."

Benjamin had said this to Annan: "The Rotful isn’t a complete deity. It is impossible for The Rotful to ’eradicate the reincarnated’ from a conceptual level since It hasn’t obtained the concept of ’eternity’ yet... that authority still doesn’t belong to It."

"...So what does that mean?"

"It means that the ritual must be invoking some kind of visible, tangible force entity."

Benjamin answered, "You may have had less exposure to False God rituals. Actually, many of the rituals of the False Gods are classic rituals altered with their own truths, or outright True God rituals with a superficial change. After all, the truths held by False Gods are generally quite limited, while the needs of their followers are comprehensive.

"If I’m not mistaken... they will likely summon otherworldly monsters capable of attacking the soul. It’s equivalent to a soul-hunting Silver rank Transcendent at the top of its game without Curse Binding or cursed objects—an occupation that requires a Bronze rank to take secondary professions as Hunter and Rogue before advancing at the Silver rank.

"Their abilities vary more or less... after all, they also come from a complete species. This is the most effective, and cost-efficient method of striking souls without direct involvement from Gold rank Transcendents.

"This ritual’s prototype belongs to Lady Silence’s ’Call of the Soul Eater’. What the Rotful can use, should be its second or even multiple revisions, but definitely under the dark domain."

"So, is it possible for this ritual to cause a natural disaster, or accidentally harm civilians?"

Annan pursued, "I heard that the Church of Rot plans to send a disobedient royal family member to Roth Fort..."

"——Absolutely not."

Benjamin asserted, "What you’ve heard likely means that they plan to use the summoned monster to attack Master Michelangelo and then turn to attack that royal member.

"Because the Rotful is not a complete deity and is not a Wizard specialized in the School of Prophets, it cannot arbitrarily transfer power without a complete truth. Its followers can only perform miracles such as ’granting lifespan’, ’rejuvenation’, ’resurrection’, ’healing injuries’, ’curing diseases’, ’life deprivation’ through rituals. Unless..."

"...Unless?"

"Unless the Rotful descends in person."

Benjamin shrugged his shoulders, giving the final answer, "But in that case, there wouldn’t be much point in struggling."

Even if the Rotful is one of the weakest False Gods, even without a complete truth; even if we disregard Its power that is akin to that of a nursing godmother, and set aside the Divine Power It holds... It is still a very senior Gold rank transmutation Wizard.

He lived for several hundred years after becoming a god. That being said, there should be at least no issue for him to take on five bronzes, one Annan, and a piece of bread...

But upon receiving this information, Annan was actually relieved.

Since "Sever the Curse" couldn’t directly obliterate the soul of the reincarnated Michelangelo on a conceptual level.

That meant Annan didn’t need to make "finding the ritual site" and "interrupting the ritual" his only conditions for victory.

——Beating the summoned monster to death was also viable.

That was much simpler.

A monster at the peak of the silver rank with a dual-class system could both track and move at high speeds with the hunter profession, and had the stealth and assassination abilities of the rogue profession. Moreover, it had no Curse Binding as a weakness, yet no curses could enchance it...

A very difficult opponent.

But it...after all, had HP.

"In the past, Athena could use five little bronzes to bulldoze through the twelve zodiac temples, today I’m using five bronzes and a piece of bread, killing one silver shouldn’t be a problem..."

After pondering for a while, Annan’s heart began to settle.

——Since you have already shown your HP bar, and I can break your defenses, why can’t I defeat you?

What was a bit regrettable was that Annan no longer had the Swordsman profession.

Therefore, after clearing the dungeon, he would not gain additional levels beyond the guaranteed experience points.

Previously, Benjamin had said that this was a dungeon that only bronze Transcendents would consider challenging, which was a rather euphemistic way of putting it.

Because the rewards of this dungeon were even attainable by those below the bronze rank.

The rewards were far below its difficulty level.

This must have been an adjustment made by Benjamin to preserve the false information.

Fortunatley, once Annan completely decrypted the dungeon, the "gift" that Benjamin left behind still weighed enough.

"A spell from any one of the four schools..."

Annan muttered, frowning slightly.

Soul Reaping, Transmutation, Shaping, Idol.

Soul Reaping was undoubtedly the school that best matched Annan’s character and personal abilities, but there was no particular need for it at the moment.

Transmutation was not very useful to Annan...after all, he had his senior Salvatore, and repetitive abilities held little significance.

Shaping—still, that was acceptable.

The spell that Master Benjamin had just used, which looked like an unfinished prototype of "Turn Stone to Mud," was a composite spell of the Shaping and Transmutation schools. Moreover, in Nightmare: White Tower, Annan had witnessed the range of applications for the Shaping spells.

It was very close to the kind of "magecraft" Annan had imagined.

Like turning stone to mud, turning mud to stone, with several flames floating behind that could turn into arrows, water streams rotating at high speed like a blade...

...At least it was really cool.

But Annan focused his gaze on the Idol school.

He immediately realized it was his only choice.

Because his other alias, "Giralda David Buonarroti," was a silver peak Wizard of both the Prophet and Idol schools.

He could inherit the spell list of the original Annan and cast them at level thirty. That is to say, if Annan had a silver-rank spell, he could use it as well.

But the problem was...

Annan didn’t even have a single spell from the Prophet or Idol schools.

Let alone silver-rank.

"But if you say that after claiming it, I would receive a ’usable’ spell..."

Annan quickly made up his mind.

...He wanted to try and see if he could exploit a high-rank spell.