Super Righteous Player
Chapter 559 - 100 Why are you guys so skilled? (2nd Update)_1

Chapter 559: Chapter 100 Why are you guys so skilled? (2nd Update)_1

After Annan and Neferatali arrived at the coal ash wasteland, they didn’t immediately go out to explore. Instead, they first went to visit Longjing Tea and the others, who were resting in their residence.

Husky and Ah Dian had already been sent back by Annan, to continue their work and play.

Although the two girls were very interested in the purpose of Annan’s visit, he didn’t really want to take them running around just yet.

They weren’t even Transcendents yet and were heading straight to fight a world BOSS.

Isn’t this just asking for trouble?

Although players of their level don’t have much pressure to resurrect—what’s dead is dead... they would still be a hindrance.

At least for the time being, it seems that they won’t be able to help with this matter.

But as for Neferatali... Annan noticed that she was quite friendly with the girl named Ah Dian, even asking where she lived.

Perhaps she wanted to take her to her teacher.

—That’s nice.

So Annan let Neferatali go ahead with Ah Dian and the others to another residence for the players. It just so happened that when Annan had spied on Longjing Tea and Husky from behind the scenes before, he saw that there was an empty room at their place.

Annan felt that those two girls, one a simpleton and the other a dummy—maybe they could stimulate Neferatali’s maternal instincts, earn some favor or something. And Longjing Tea is exceptionally eloquent, a proper socialite, even a former host by profession, who could speak well. With Husky and Ah Dian, this contrast was even more pronounced.

If things go well, these three could indeed earn a lot of Neferatali’s favor.

Later, when all three new players become Transcendents, Annan could use Neferatali’s connection to send them all to the Bone-nurturing Ground.

Becoming an apprentice to a Gold-rank Wizard—isn’t something easy. There will definitely be a test.

But perhaps, if it’s for Neferatali’s sake, the threshold for the entrance test might be lowered a bit.

From Neferatali’s perspective, that old man seemed to have a good temper, his greatest virtue being his willingness to teach. And with his age and experience, he probably wouldn’t be too fixated on the students’ choices.

At least there wouldn’t be an incident like with Benjamin, who felt his student’s "purity wasn’t enough" and just got rid of the student...

After all, most Transcendents hope that when they advance to the silver rank and their personal talent is sublimated, they’ll be able to change their fate and achieve wealth and an easy life.

Those with a strong desire to ascend to the Gold rank are, after all, a minority.

—If he wasn’t open-minded, the old man would have been long gone.

He definitely wouldn’t have lived this long.

However, since Neferatali had gone to the other side,

Annan finally had the chance to recover from the identity of "Giralda" and take a brief rest as his actual self.

Before Annan advanced to the silver rank, he quite enjoyed acting as "Giralda". At least the healthy and strong adult body was much more convenient than that of a fourteen-year-old child.

It’s not because "Giralda" is stronger or more robust... Annan mainly thought that having longer arms and legs made walking and handling affairs more convenient.

But after Annan obtained the "Victorious Knight" will job... or rather, after his will attribute surpassed 40 points, Annan felt a clear sense of harmony between his soul and his body.

This sense of harmony is the key to resisting curses. But it also made Annan feel slightly uncomfortable when using "Giralda", the Curse-Bound proxy.

Although it wasn’t very obvious.

Roughly speaking... it was like the feeling of wearing new shoes for the first time.

The moment you switch, you feel a bit uncomfortable. After a short time, you adapt, and without overthinking, it’s mostly fine; but if you focus your attention on it again, it feels somewhat off.

And it might be an illusion,

but Annan always felt increasingly anxious the closer he got to the coal ash wasteland. As if something there was pulling him...

....Like when you forget whether you’ve locked the door when leaving home or if you turned off the gas stove properly.

It felt like lingering on something, yet having forgotten what it was. As if by not coming to the coal ash wasteland, he would miss something crucial.

Annan highly valued his intuition.

He had said before that his intuition was very accurate. Moreover, after his emotions had been partially blocked, his intuition seemed even sharper.

Especially...

After Annan reverted to his original form, that odd, mental tugging sensation suddenly vanished.

This anomaly set off alarms in Annan’s mind.

—Before really investigating, it might be better to maintain this state and quietly wait for a few days.

Annan made up his mind.

When Longjing Tea and the others opened the door and saw Annan in his original form, they were startled.

It was known that last month, news about Annan Winter as the heir to the Winter Duke had already spread.

Prior to that, Dmitry losing his inheritance rights was a secret circulating only within small circles of various countries’ elites.

The patron deity of Winter Principality was the "Tradition" god. Unless there was an accident, it was certain to be a primogeniture system—in such a case, everyone would focus their attention on Dmitry.

If Annan and Maria walked on the street, unless a few Hands of Winter followed them, it was certain that no one would realize, "This is the Winter Duke’s child." Wherever Dmitry appeared, people would recognize him immediately as "His Highness Dmitry."

Therefore, when Dmitry first met Giralda, he wasn’t surprised that Giralda had called out his name.

But now, with the news of Annan’s impending ascension spreading...

That attention shifted to Annan.

Of course, ordinary people at the bottom wouldn’t care about who was the next heir of the other countries. They might not even be able to distinguish what "generation" someone is, or possibly not even know what the political system of other countries is, or whether there is a king.

Just like in Frostwater Harbor, they themselves didn’t even know what "Tan Juan Geraint" actually looked like. At best, they only knew "he might have blue eyes," which provided Annan the opportunity to impersonate him.

But later Annan found out... even the people of Frostwater Harbor didn’t know what King Noah looked like! More than eighty percent of the people of Frostwater Harbor couldn’t even recognize the Viscount of Roth Fort, a neighboring city!

In this world without civilian photocopiers or the internet, even though the price of paper was relatively cheap, distributing a high-resolution, accurate portrait of a person on a large scale was by no means an easy task.

However, Transcendents and Ritualists who could more easily access high-tier news, as well as nobles and information dealers, had already received Annan’s portrait.

Just as informants would trail Dmitry wherever he went, as if they were in a reality show. Wherever one walked, there were peeping eyes behind.

In this world, quickly dispersing accurate information is indeed difficult but tailing someone is quite simple.

If an informant or a Ritualist saw Annan’s face... within a week, "Annan Winter in the Ash-Barren Wasteland" paintings could be directly sold to the Royal Capital of Noah.

Annan didn’t care much about it.

But the players were more nervous than he was—

Suddenly, Delicious Wind Goose hissed, straining to peer outside with tension.

His eyes were open, his pupils were sharp as sword qi overflowed from him, and he scanned left and right.

—Then he picked up Annan and dashed into the house. He slammed the door shut with a thud.

"Seal the windows!"

He immediately whispered the command to the children behind him.

The children nodded earnestly.

The several potted vine plants by the window suddenly grew explosively, sealing the window in the blink of an eye so no light could penetrate.

If a passerby saw Annan’s back, they might mistakenly think this family had kidnapped a child passing by; if they didn’t see Annan, given such a huge commotion, they probably thought that there was some underground organization secretly making contact for a deal...

—Why are you guys so adept at this!

Annan couldn’t help but complain inwardly.