Super Righteous Player
Chapter 555 - 96 The Curse of Seti (First Update)_1

Chapter 555: Chapter 96 The Curse of Seti (First Update)_1

Husky tilted her head.

She curiously glanced at the man, her brain not quite catching up yet.

Why does he know my name?

Husky thought, and subconsciously looked up.

...There’s no ID floating in the air, right?

Electra, standing beside her, suddenly realized something.

She wondered if this might be the big shot who was supposed to come tomorrow.

So Electra turned around, respectfully looked at the man, and tentatively greeted him:

"Giralda... sir?"

The man with black hair and black eyes turned around and nodded at Electra with composure, "Long time no see, Electra."

"...Huh?"

Husky let out another naive sound of confusion.

Electra, unable to help herself, placed a hand on her face.

She actually felt she wasn’t very bright... but standing beside Husky, she seemed to be the sharper one.

Husky opened her mouth wide, blinking her eyes.

She gradually realized that something was off.

—She now wanted to post an urgent message on the forum: "If you don’t recognize the big boss who comes for an inspection and blatantly ask him if there’s any private work... In this case, if it’s a girl, can she get away with acting cute?"

"...I was just joking, boss."

Husky tried to show an innocent smile.

Fortunately, Giralda didn’t take her words seriously.

Although they had no memory of each other, Giralda seemed to be well acquainted with them, "Where is Thirteen Spices?"

"Um, he... is sleeping."

Electra was about to say he had logged off, but then thought better of it and refrained.

So she had to carefully suggest that he was tired and sleeping.

To her surprise, Giralda simply nodded with understanding: "He’s returned to your world, hasn’t he?

"When can he come back? It should be the early hours of the morning over there now, right?

"Has Longjing Tea not told you that when you are in this world, your bodies over there are considered to be sleeping?"

"...Huh?"

Husky once again displayed a foolishly blank expression.

Although they had a rough concept that this world "is not a game, but an otherworld," hearing a native calmly discuss information about "another world" still caught Husky off guard.

Seeing the "sage’s" brain go into "background operation" mode again, the fiery-haired, bright-eyed girl couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

She extended her hand graciously to the two of them and introduced herself, "I’m Naifertali, hello... heroes from another world."

Having been in contact with Annan and the players for so long, Naifertali had long since cleared up her initial misunderstandings about the players.

After all, she was a true "sage."

She had come to understand that the players’ cost of clearing nightmares wasn’t as great as she had imagined; even if they were eroded by the curses in nightmares, there was a way to save them.

Unfortunately, this was due to their unique physique and not something that could be widely shared. The main members of the Eye of Secrecy were spiritual bodies from the otherworld who entered this world and obtained artificial bodies from the dream realm. Perhaps because their spiritual bodies had deeply interacted with the dream realm upon entering this world, they were better at purifying nightmares compared to the people of this world.

They call this going "down to the base."

But as she said to Niusel,

The merits of the Eye of Secrecy should not be discounted simply because the dangers they faced weren’t as great.

She still regarded them all as heroes.

From a young age, Naifertali firmly believed that an ordinary person, who would perish in fire, and a Transcendent, who did not fear the flames, if both saved someone from a fire, their achievements should be considered the same.

Although the path of righteousness was much harder for the former.

But that should not mean the latter’s act of kindness was in any way inferior. Nor should one criticize the latter for only saving one person, accusing them of not doing their utmost and saying they should have saved more.

To those being saved, their feelings upon seeing a helping hand extended are not concerned with what was sacrificed by the rescuer.

What they care about is the fact that they were saved.

Only bystanders comment on "what that person has sacrificed."

As if only the stories of heroes who exhaust their every strength to defeat the demon lord are worth being moved by.

This is merely the luxury of the observers.

The person with only ten silver coins who donates nine to disaster victims certainly deserves praise, but should a person with a hundred gold coins donate only ten to the victims, there would be those who use the first person’s actions to criticize him.

Naifertali understood deeply... such harsh demands didn’t benefit the situation and would only dissuade others with a hundred gold coins from lending a hand.

Even knowing that the people of the Hidden Eye wouldn’t be destroyed by nightmares,

she harbored no resentment towards them—instead, she gained more confidence in Giralda’s undertakings.

If someone else were in her place, they might think, "Then what they’re doing really isn’t that remarkable, is it?"

But Naifertali would never think so.

Those who perform good deeds should at the very least not be rebuked—

This was the life philosophy taught to Naifertali by her teacher, the Bone Healer Seti:

The greater the power one possesses, the more one should act with kindness and order.

But this goodwill should be voluntary, not forced by others. If it’s done to meet others’ expectations, it will only bring an increasingly heavy burden.

Because foolish people always have near blind faith expectations of those stronger than themselves, and disappoint themselves at will if expectations are not met. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, never stand out or show your power without reason.

"—Such is the so-called prudent self-protection, the way of a wise person in life. If you have ten units of strength, only use up to seven; the remaining three are the margin within which you can freely maneuver,"

At that time, a teenage Naifertali asked Master Seti a question:

"If we should hide the power we obtain,

"then why did we seek this power in the first place?"

Naturally, it was to have the strength to use in times of trouble—Seti originally intended to reply as such.

But he fell silent for a long time.

That was because the Bone Healer Seti had always been regarded as bearing some kind of "curse."

He was the greatest idol wizard, the most powerful healer of the Underworld, a ritualist with immense power. Many children of important figures, numerous geniuses and prodigies, had all learned from him.

But.

Those who became Seti’s students...

In the end, not one had achieved their initial dreams.

Not a single one.

Some even suspected... whether Seti had sacrificed the dreams of these children in exchange for their talents. But only Seti knew he had done nothing of the sort.

The moment he heard Naifertali’s question, he felt a sense of vertigo, a vague realization of something.

Perhaps...

Was there a problem here?

Maybe it truly was a curse.

Only that Seti himself was unaware of it...

That was... the curse known as "knowledge shuns the seeker."

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