Super Righteous Player
Chapter 376 - 373: The Face Fruit of the Paper Princess_1

Chapter 376: Chapter 373: The Face Fruit of the Paper Princess_1

Annan had been in Noah for three days.

Even so, Annan had not managed to gather clear information about the situation within the Royal Capital.

—Because Noah was simply too vast.

Even with the Paper Princess who could teleport Annan over short distances so that he needn’t backtrack... Three days’ time was only enough for the two of them to barely finish exploring the Saint Victoria District where the royal palace was located.

Their gains were not insignificant.

The Royal Capital, after all, was worthy of its name—under the guidance of the Paper Princess, Annan even saw shops brazenly selling cursed materials in out-of-the-way alleys, such as a store called "Hal’s Antique Shop."

Among the more affordable items were "Pure Water" and "Ashes of Moths that Died in Flame"; slightly harder to procure were "Slave Master’s Fingers", "Antique Swords that Have Killed", and "Swindler’s Facial Skin"; and then there were expensive high-end items like "The Ever-Burning Azure Spark" and "Beating Hearts of Drums".

There were even cursed objects for sale—Annan just wasn’t interested in them.

According to the Paper Princess, this was even a formal shop.

Even the transcendent beings and ritualists affiliated with the kingdom had to purchase their materials here. They guaranteed quality and freshness—anything that could be freshly made, could be custom ordered. This ensured the longest fresh-keeping period.

And because this place was just so... official...

Without the proper identity proof and purchase permits, one couldn’t even buy certain levels of cursed materials from here.

Of course, Annan did not have any identity documents or purchasing permissions.

—But that’s exactly why the Paper Princess brought him here.

As soon as the Paper Princess showed her face, the shop owner recognized Annan.

Even though the shopkeeper didn’t know Annan’s background, he clearly recognized the Paper Princess.

As a subordinate deity of Yawen, the Paper Princess could almost be said to be the second most travel-loving of all the gods.

The only one who roamed more frequently was Yawen’s other subordinate god, known as the "God of Wandering Poets", also called the Twin Singer, a dual-gender deity.

This deity possessed two heads, one of a "slender woman" and the other of a "portly man", which allowed them to produce both male and female voices. Adding voice modulation to the mix, they could cover all types of vocal tones, produce all sorts of sounds, and master all kinds of songs—even holding duets with themselves.

At the same time, this deity was cynical, quirky, and clever.

Their way of upholding Justice was peculiar... and not well-liked.

The Twin Singer often liked to incarnate as an ugly, short prowler, blending into the company of others. For instance, by joining a mercenary band, participating in some evil plan, or infiltrating the household of a ruling authority.

Then, upon accidentally being discovered, having their identity exposed, or acquiring the desired information, they would reveal their monstrous true form amidst the mist, concoct a song or nursery rhyme of their experiences on the spot, and then depart while singing it.

Those misdeeds hidden in the dark would be uncovered once the Twin Singer spread their songs—hence many of the oppressed common folk regarded the existence of the Twin Singer as a legend, hoping one day they would come.

But those who understood the gods deeper realized this was not entirely for the sake of preaching justice.

The Twin Singer was a deity with dual thought processes—they detested evil, but they also committed evil... and thus, they detested themselves too.

They attempted to tempt others into wrongdoing to enforce justice through entrapment. Some who would not normally engage in evil acts, even those occasionally helping others, would succumb to temptation for a high price and themselves become subjects of catchy nursery rhymes the Twin Singer would compose and spread.

Yet, they were also fair. For the "ugly dwarf" or "disfigured thief" personas they adopted would be included in their own poems, equally scorned by the deity.

They were such a contradictory deity, skeptical of good intentions yet loathing evil deeds.

—So contradictory that they bore an extra head.

Larger events would sometimes be transformed by the Twin Singer into grand and lavish operas.

This god did not recognize Annan. Of course, they probably wouldn’t care even if they did.

According to Paper Princess...

The Hidden Singer God was now hiding within the Royal Capital, like a hyena searching for "a tremendous sin".

This was also why Paper Princess insisted on accompanying Annan.

Even if he wasn’t attacked or kidnapped, if his reputation were tarnished by the deception of the Hidden Singer God, it would be a massive loss for Annan.

Only other deities could recognize the Hidden Singer God.

Not even Transcendents of the Gold rank could.

Because the Hidden Singer God also governed the domains of "disguise", "deception", and "fabrication".

However, Paper Princess could not always follow Annan.

Although Paper Princess liked her "descendants" with whom she shared no actual blood relation, she still had work to do.

Paper Princess was the protector of all painters.

She had to travel around the world, selling paintings to make money to support those painters who had artistic dreams and passion for painting, yet were impoverished due to limitations in talent, channels, and funds.

It’s the mysterious ritual that almost all painters understood—recycling their unsellable paintings back to Paper Princess.

Paper Princess would compensate them based on the effort and passion they invested in creating those paintings, rather than their intrinsic artistic aesthetic value, guaranteeing these sincerely dedicated painters enough to live on and continue studying art.

And she didn’t dismantle or destroy these paintings.

She had banks and warehouses all over the world specifically for storing these paintings, even those considered "failures" by their creators. Should the painters gain fame later or wish to reclaim their old works, they could retrieve them by paying merely the cost price—the money they received for the paintings at the time.

Furthermore, after the painters died, Paper Princess would also secretly pack their paintings with waterproof paper, in accordance with their wills, and place them back in their tombs or hand them over to their families. This was to prevent their works from gaining fame posthumously when all their creations had already been sold to Paper Princess.

Paper Princess didn’t care about how much money she could make from the appreciation of these paintings.

She didn’t even charge a storage fee—

The painters might think that Paper Princess could directly convert these paintings into power, which is why they would willingly offer them as a sacrifice. In reality, Paper Princess indeed could absorb truly outstanding paintings to enhance herself...

However, the vast majority of paintings offered to Paper Princess were far from qualifying.

Obviously, this required a substantial amount of money... one could even say a vast fortune.

The reason she could be hired by the Silver Baron to protect Annan’s safety was not that she had nothing better to do, but because the Silver Baron provided her with enough money.

After all, with the backing of Paper Princess, the number of young painters entering the field of art, especially during peaceful times, was increasing...

Paper Princess didn’t want to acquire her funds through illegal means, to prevent people from directing their anger towards the innocent painters.

She could only keep creating cursed paintings to sell and support them.

Humans were not blind.

Towards a deity like her, people naturally held deep respect.

Take, for example, the owner of the antique shop.

Even though he didn’t recognize Annan, based solely on Paper Princess’s guarantee for Annan... Annan was granted the highest authority here immediately.

Of course, this matter would also be reported to the palace and collected by the Cyclops Crows.

However, Annan certainly didn’t mind such things.

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