Super Righteous Player
Chapter 489 - 30 Naifertali Overthinks_1

Chapter 489: Chapter 30 Naifertali Overthinks_1

Lin Yiyi and her companions had already been living underground for two days.

The players accepted the jewelry given to them by Niusel without any hesitation.

Not just accepting it—Lin Yiyi and Jiu’er even put it on directly.

Lin Yiyi especially thanked Niusel, telling him, "You really helped us a lot."

These words were passed back to Naifertali by Niusel.

Naifertali was immediately taken aback and instructed Niusel not to get close to them anymore.

Because she knew that the other party had clever people, and they had already seen through her intentions... They even brazenly relayed the corresponding information back to her.

This indicated that they were smart and confident.

——This was a very dangerous probe.

It directly determined what kind of attitude Naifertali had towards the three players.

For ordinary people in this world, wearing silver and gold jewelry was not uncommon.

Although in reality, neither silver nor gold jewelry had any special effects in a transcendental sense—only "silver coins" and "gold dust" truly had effects.

But since ordinary people lacked knowledge of the mystical, it was only natural for them to prepare some gold and silver ornaments to ward off evil.

Ordinary people could wear them casually.

But it was different for Transcendents.

Only Transcendents would use bronze jewelry. Those with even a slight understanding of the mystical world could see someone wearing bronze jewelry and directly infer that the person was most likely a Transcendent.

This could almost be considered a symbol of identity. Some remote villages that didn’t understand "Transcendents" even directly called Transcendents "Bronze Folks" and viewed bronze as an evil metal.

Of course, "bronze" jewelry does not imply that it is the color of bronze.

Some bronze leans more towards gold, some towards gray-white; the color can vary greatly depending on the proportion. But even the bronze that looks most like gold differs significantly in luster from that of real gold.

Regardless, bronze is not a metal suitable for making jewelry.

Not just because it oxidizes very quickly when corroded by sweat... The main reason is that "it is not expensive enough."

In a few hundred years, maybe someone will like oxidized bronze watches, appreciating the sense of time settling... But to the wealthy of this era, bronze jewelry is seen as too cheap.

After all, a bronze ring is even cheaper than an iron hoop. Apart from serving as a form of transport, there is almost no use for it... from the perspective of luxury goods, it is indeed too cheap.

That is also why many one-time Curse Bindings appear in the form of bronze rings.

——Because the base material is cheap.

Yet, while ordinary people do not wear bronze ornaments, Transcendents have a particular preference for bronze jewelry.

Even after advancing to the silver rank, many Transcendents still wear a piece of bronze jewelry, displaying it openly.

This is not out of modesty.

But rather to conceal the actual number of Curse Bindings.

Silver-rank Transcendents have at least two Curse Bindings. If they can make others believe they are bronze rank, then even if someone deduces their Curse Binding from their behavior pattern, they will only be targeted with a counter-spell for a single Curse Binding.

After all, Curse Bindings are odd and varied; achieving a counter-curse is not easy. The more one attempts to achieve a counter-curse for multiple Curse Bindings, the more difficult it becomes to set up.

As long as one doesn’t violate all of the Curse Bindings, at least they won’t be killed by a counter-curse.

And by acting low-key, it can also be used to prevent ritual and spell attacks.

The essence of the path to Sublimation is the sublimation of the soul—spells from the Bronze tier have a reduced effect on Silver-tier Transcendents and are completely ineffective against those of the Gold tier.

And for the unranked wizard apprentices, the spells they use are already completely ineffective against Silver-tier Transcendents.

As long as you surpass by two tiers, the Transcendent powers are essentially completely ineffective against the opponent. Naturally, the same goes for rituals of the same tier.

When a Silver-tier Transcendent disguises themselves as a Bronze-tier, even if they really reveal their true name, or accidentally fall into someone else’s ritual... If the other party is not cautious and only uses a ritual capable of killing Bronze-tier Transcendents, then they can completely withstand it.

After all, with each increase in tier, the cost of ritual effects increases geometrically. It’s hard to imagine that someone with ill intent passing by would go to the expense of targeting oneself.

If not for Bronze-tier Transcendents, it’s really hard to hide one’s Vessel... Many Bronze-tier Transcendents also wear lower-tiered products as a disguise. But when there’s no other choice, Bronze-tier Vessels are already the lowest-tier there is.

This is also why all those who walk upon the earth are "Bronze-tier Transcendents."

It’s not that there’s such a huge difference in numbers between Bronze-tier Transcendents and those above Bronze-tier.

But under the constraints of "Curse Bindings," everyone acts more cautiously and steadily. No one dares to act too arrogantly.

Those who are particularly arrogant usually don’t make it to Silver-tier—they are killed by local clerics in conjunction with hired Detectives.

Those who need to act in the capacity of a Transcendent almost all have the appearance of being "Bronze-tier"; and those wearing Silver-tier jewelry—like Annan, his public identity is not a Transcendent at all, but an ordinary person.

Except for Gold tier.

Unless one completely empties their Elemental Power and becomes a Silver-tier with just a slightly higher attribute point, it’s really impossible to hide as a Gold-tier. One can only physically hide... that is, stay further away from the world of ordinary people.

As long as Elemental Power is stored in the mind, it will gradually twist the surrounding world... and a Bronze-tier Transcendent gazing directly into the eyes of a Gold-tier Transcendent will lose sanity.

Like a certain Gold-tier Soul Reaping Wizard, his method of hiding his identity was directly modifying others’ cognition and memories, not actually disguising himself as Silver-tier.

Silver-tier is the limit for humans.

Reaching Gold-tier, one has actually started to become non-human.

But even the strong ones of Gold-tier, if their Curse Bindings are revealed, can still cause a lot of trouble for themselves.

It’s even possible to be schemed against and lose one’s life.

However, accepting these pieces of jewelry does not mean Lin Yiyi and her group are acting too arrogantly and without any regard—they are not fools.

Lin Yiyi guessed that the other party wanted to see if the three of them were frauds.

In other words, whether they are wild Transcendents, whether they have an organization, and whether they understand the rules that have emerged in the past decade. There might also be a finer consideration of their patterns of action... but wanting to see this step was already enough.

Obviously, for Transcendents, wearing silver jewelry is far too dangerous; if the three of them really were Silver-tier Transcendents disguised as Bronze-tier, the act of gifting silver jewelry could also be seen as a bluff, "I already know your identities."

But Lin Yiyi and her friends decided to accept the silver jewelry instead of returning it for their own reasons.

Lin Yiyi had already prepared a silver bracelet for herself, but Jiu’er and Four Dark Decks had not.

They were going to stay here for a long time... and they might even advance here.

Rather than going out to buy silver jewelry for advancement, and being figured out by others as "Transcendents here to advance," it’s better to just accept it outright and admit the fact that one is about to advance.

But Lin Yiyi obviously didn’t expect that—

Her actions, however, led Naifertali to a misconception—