Super Righteous Player
Chapter 536 - 77 Saint of Thieves Alfonso_1

Chapter 536: Chapter 77 Saint of Thieves Alfonso_1

Even among the wise, those who truly understand the secrets of the Sacred Bones are indeed a rare few.

The secrets of the Sacred Bones are not what one would consider substantial knowledge.

For the saints never intended to "encrypt" this knowledge from the beginning. They announced the Curse Binding publicly to obtain a powerful oath-binding force.

The problem lies in the fact that the secrets of the Sacred Bones are not very "practical."

Even with this knowledge, one cannot conduct rituals or create influence. Although the curse imposed on the related saints becomes stronger as the knowledge becomes more widespread, and thus the power of the oath is enhanced... that benefit has nothing to do with the learner.

This is just "knowledge" after all.

The reason Naifertali had such a profound understanding of the Sacred Bones was not unrelated to her mentor, the Bone Healer named Seti.

As the strongest idol Wizard in the Underworld, Seti’s professional name could not possibly be the bizarre "Bone Healer."

His title replaced his profession precisely because Seti had achieved something even rarer and more iconic than advancing to Gold status.

It goes without saying.

Apart from being a formidable idol Wizard, an excellent healer, and an aging Ritualist... he was also the world’s most renowned scholar of the Sacred Bones.

He once successfully repaired the shattered "Bone of Fearlessness."

Representing "courage," this Sacred Bone is none other than the spine.

——To embark on the path of the saints means to voluntarily choose a destiny from which there is absolutely no return.

The Sacred Bones are not mere intangible energy, but living organs with a life of their own, surviving somewhere in the world.

After passing the trials of the Sacred Bones and gaining their approval... one must also undergo the perilous and bloody "Wedging Ritual."

Essentially, it is a transplant surgery.

If one wishes to exchange the Heart of Justice, one must first cut out one’s own heart.

Of course, the installation isn’t that complicated. There is no need to bridge any nerves. Once the original part of the body is removed, it can be used as easily as the Sharingan, ready to fit immediately, and the healing Divine Arts required are not complex.

The difficulty of this ritual lies in the fact that... it must be completed in the presence of at least twelve witnesses, all while fully conscious.

In other words, no anesthetics are allowed, and one cannot pass out.

Replacing parts like the "tongue," "eyes," or "right arm" is one thing.

But as for locations like the "Heart of Justice," "Skull of Honesty," or "Flesh of Sacrifice"... Trying to exchange those is both risky and troublesome.

That is why the path of the saints is said to allow no turning back.

Because if a saint violates the established "Divine Covenant"... although they won’t lose all their stigmata like the Pope or lose their divine authority like a deity, the consequences are just as severe.

In fact, they might be even more grave.

——If a saint betrays their path, then the Sacred Bones will depart from them.

It’s a physical separation.

There once was a Saint of Compassion who betrayed his path, so his tongue "spoke out of turn"; there was also a Justice Saint who ended up walking the path of evil due to wielding too much power of life and death... His heartless corpse, with an empty chest cavity, was found in his own bedroom.

But if one stays true to their path, it is entirely possible to damage the Sacred Bones.

The Sacred Bones are not absolutely indestructible or unbreakable.

Otherwise, a saint holding the "Flesh of Sacrifice" would be nearly invincible.

The previous holder of the "Bone of Fearlessness" was a hero from the Winter Duchy, a legendary mercenary.

His Divine Covenant bore the indomitable spirit of Winter, swearing "never to flee from battle."

Before becoming a saint, his mercenary past had offended many. Eventually, he was conspired against, leading him into a battle with the Iris Marquis, "the god of swords and duels."

The Iris Marquis is a god of duels.

He never goes easy in battle and will not stop attacking—until the opponent dies or surrenders.

In other words, the Divine Covenants of these two men directly clashed.

In the end, the mercenary upheld his path with his life.

The "Bone of Fearlessness" provided him with extremely strong power, allowing him to fight against the formidable Iris Marquis even without possessing the Book of Truth.

It is important to note that the Iris Marquis is a subordinate deity of the Red Knight and also possesses attributes of a dueling god and a war god—in a one-on-one duel, the Iris Marquis’s power could be infinitely amplified.

In the first ten minutes, they still managed to fight to a standstill. However, once the Iris Marquis succeeded in inflicting the first wound, the battle immediately showed a one-sided trend.

In less than five minutes, the mercenary was already riddled with scars.

He lost his right arm, along with the four fingers of his left hand, almost all his ribs, two-thirds of his internal organs. A third of his throat was slit open, and both his heart and lungs had a penetrating wound.

On an ordinary person, these injuries would be more than enough to kill them four or five times over, let alone allow them to fight back.

But with courage intact, the closer the "Bone of Fearlessness" came to a dead end, the more power it burst forth—

He continued to be on the brink of death, yet his power gradually increased. And he did not plan to retreat, unwilling to concede or die just yet.

Each time he fell, he stood up again, each time stronger than before—

He held off the full-powered Iris Marquis for an hour.

He even managed to blind the Iris Marquis’s left eye in the end.

Not until his bones were all shattered into pieces and he was nearly turned into mush did he finally stay down.

The spine, smashed into nearly a hundred pieces by the enraged Iris Marquis, had completely lost its function as a holy relic.

At that time, people thought the relic of "courage" had been lost.

Yet thirty years later... a wizard named Seti collected all the fragments of the "Bone of Fearlessness."

He rebuilt the surrounding cities into a huge ritual site, naming them the "Bone Eating Forest" and the "Bone-nurturing Ground."

Under the effect of the ritual sites of the outer Bone Eating Forest and the inner Bone-nurturing Ground, he spent twelve years and successfully restored the "Bone of Fearlessness."

It was not just a cosmetic repair, but even the silent spirit of "courage" was awakened once again, fully restoring its function as a holy relic.

As the world’s first idol wizard capable of repairing a holy relic, he even figured out a "backdoor" of the holy relic.

He had the extract of the relic of courage turned into a converter by a friend and injected it into his student’s brain, successfully erasing his "sense of fear." Later, the "Bone Healer" Seti gave the "Bone of Fearlessness" to this young student.

Sure enough, he bypassed the authentication system of the Bone of Fearlessness and gained its recognition.

He was just a silver-tier "Spirit Summoner" at the time, and he was not a brave and fearless hero like the previous generations... he was even a somewhat cowardly, quiet young man.

Yet he became the "hero" of this generation.

This glory is undoubtedly a "Creation’s Work"—an achievement that could only be accomplished by one person.

Now that Michelangelo has ascended as the "Man in the Mirror," he has become the world’s number one idol wizard.

This can also be considered the "Crown of the Supreme."

It was only after the appearance of this "man-made saint" that the Underworld began to set off a trend in searching for holy relics.

This man-made saint, possessing "stolen courage" and not even advanced to Gold, is undoubtedly the best moving billboard.

—If done the same way, they should be able to become saints themselves.

Being silver-tier is the most comfortable rank... smart, strong, not prone to aging, powerful and with a long life. Many people do not wish to take risks and advance to Gold.

But if one could attain power surpassing ordinary Gold-tier Transcendents while still silver-tier... who wouldn’t want that?

So the Transcendents and Ritualists, while making an effort to scorn and belittle this "completely unqualified" saint, were secretly searching for unclaimed holy relics. They wanted to take them to the "Bone Healer" Seti, pay a certain price, and undergo the surgery themselves.

Of course, many Transcendents did not trust Seti.

They did not believe that this method could awaken the power of the holy relics... some even thought that this "man-made saint" was a scam.

The purpose was to get more holy relics and information about them.

But Naifertali knew that this was no scam.

It was real.

Because Alfonso, whom people derogatorily referred to as the "Saint of Thieves"... was not only Naifertali’s senior.

He was also Naifertali’s older half-brother from the same mother.

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