Super Righteous Player
Chapter 579 - 120 "Dream Eater" Tricino Seti_1

Chapter 579: Chapter 120 "Dream Eater" Tricino Seti_1

In order to awaken Naifertali... and also to remind her of the real identity of the Bone Healer.

Annan didn’t tell her everything directly.

Instead, he took Naifertali straight to Benjamin.

Just as Annan expected.

Or rather, his previous intuition was indeed very accurate—Benjamin personally confirmed Annan’s guess.

The "Bone Healer" Seti was indeed the Pope of the tragic playwright "Tricino".

And he had been serving the tragic playwright not just for a day or two.

According to what Benjamin said, at least before he himself had graduated, Seti had already been the Pope of the tragic playwright.

"At that time, because I wanted to learn the spells of the Idol School, and the Heath Tower of Black didn’t have any Idol School tutors... I once wanted to visit other Wizard’s Towers to learn."

Sitting at the table, Benjamin glanced at the silent Naifertali, then turned to Annan and said, "At that time I obtained the corresponding permissions that allowed me to access the archives within the Wizard’s Towers.

"It mentioned the deeds of ’Dream Eater’ Tricino Seti. This was his professional name at the Gold rank... Miss Naifertali, you probably didn’t know his professional name, did you?"

Benjamin’s tone was calm as he recounted the facts.

But it always gave off a feeling as if he were mocking something.

"Because once you know the official name of the ’Dream Eater’ profession, it is very easy to associate it with his actions."

—Tricino Seti was a demon who fed on the dreams of mortals.

"The more splendid the initial dream... the stronger the curse that bursts forth when people forget it, when they throw it away."

Benjamin explained, "People are accustomed to ’discarding impractical dreams’ as a means of survival. Just like someone trying to survive in the wilderness would discard the money and jewels in their baggage to lighten their load.

"It’s an act of exchanging ’something extremely valuable’ for ’a chance to live’—and thus can be seen as the greatest of sacrifices. A wholehearted sacrifice aimed at survival, at reaching one’s goals."

Sacrificing "brilliant dreams" for a "better reality".

The wizards of the Idol School spend their lives aspiring to compare themselves to gods.

This might be the most idealistic wizardry school—they must believe in themselves one thousand percent, convinced that they can do anything. In other words, before they have "godlike power," they must first have a "godlike mindset".

When an Idol School wizard starts to believe in gods, his power will decline by at least half.

Frederick was like this, and Tricino Seti was certainly the same.

Becoming gradually "less human" is an inevitability that all Idol School wizards cannot stop.

As long as they use Idol School spells, they will continue to move in that direction... because that is their "purpose" itself.

Just as the wizards of the Disabling School will gradually lose their emotions and become indifferent; the wizards of the School of Prophets will lose themselves amidst countless future possibilities, unable to distinguish between past, present, and future; the wizards of the Soul Snatching School will eventually modify their own memories and personalities; and the wizards of the Shaping School will change their own bodies.

This is not the price of the spells themselves.

It is more a curse tied to their destiny.

Just as the strong are prone to hunger, the wise are filled with doubt.

The modern schools of wizardry were largely created to consolidate similar "curses".

Like wizards who manipulate souls and minds, they are very likely to go to the lengths of modifying their own memories and personalities—whether it is absorbing memories from another’s soul or intricately cutting out emotions of fear or pride, the essence is no different.

They all touched the same taboo.

"As long as Idol School followers believe in gods, it means they no longer have complete faith in their own omnipotence. Their nearly boundless power, then, will have ’directionality’ based on different beliefs...

"So, why hasn’t Seti weakened?"

Benjamin said meaningfully, "Or could it be that he had already weakened before?"

Naifertali misunderstood from the very beginning.

She thought that her teacher asking them to return to ’report back’ was the goal. But in fact, ’not returning’ was the correct choice.

Tricino Seti was indeed trying to complete the ’rotation of the four wheels’. But his goal wasn’t to adopt the classical model of the ’wish machine’ that returns completed wishes to oneself. Nor was he always failing.

——He had always been absorbing power.

He likened the ’dreams’ of his students to offerings, and himself to the god who accepted these offerings. His students handed over their dreams, which they cherished like treasures at ’that moment’, and he would satisfy their ’future’ wishes.

In this exchange, it seemed no one suffered a loss.

Seti gained power, and his students got a good life. The only regret was the ’original desire’ indelibly etched in their hearts like a scar, forever unforgettable.

Just like a first love, impossible to forget.

But in reality, what his students sold... was their own destinies.

Their resplendent wishes, if allowed to follow their own paths freely, might naturally encounter obstacles, but were even more likely to ultimately fulfill those intense desires.

However, Tricino Seti was deliberately changing their ’original intentions’.

——Yes.

Exchanging the ’dream’ itself for the ’realization of the dream’ seemed like an unachievable paradox. But there was a very simple shortcut.

Just switch to a different dream.

"He didn’t avoid paying a price, but even after paying a heavy price, he remained powerful.

"This is also why Tricino Seti only recruits young people as apprentices."

Benjamin ruthlessly pointed out the truth: "It’s not as he himself says, that he ’likes young men with dreams’ or anything like that.

"It’s because people subconsciously think young people are immature and their dreams are naive. People are willing to believe that as they grow, their dreams will change someday... just like they themselves once changed their dreams.

"It is this mindset—or perhaps this prayer—that makes them not see anything strange about ’all of Tricino Seti’s students changing their original intentions during their studies’. At most, it would be whispered in eerie stories that ’Seti is a monster that devours dreams,’ or ’Seti is cursed’ and the like."

——But there is no such curse in the world.

Benjamin sneered: "It’s all conspiracy.

"What kind of conspiracy is the least likely to be detected? It’s the conspiracy where everyone benefits. Even if the sharp-witted ones feel something is wrong, because they also get a share of the soup, they will, out of caution, hold their tongue—because once they break this tacit agreement, they might not only miss out on the meat, but might not even have any soup left."

This indeed is a cleverly wrought conspiracy.

Or perhaps it could be called ’the way things are going’.

"The only special point, perhaps, is you yourself, Naifertali."

Upon saying this, Benjamin deeply looked at Naifertali: "You are his only student whose wish was fulfilled.

"Since Pope Tricino did not interfere with your actions... it implies you must have some irreplaceable uniqueness."

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