Super Righteous Player
Chapter 651 - 192 Annan’s Seventh Mirror_1

Chapter 651: Chapter 192 Annan’s Seventh Mirror_1

The originally languid Annan, lounging in his chair like a cat, suddenly widened his eyes in a flash.

At first, Annan was just watching with a bystander’s curiosity to see how Tan Juan would go about increasing his "equivalence" and by how much.

Earlier, Tan Juan had an epiphany, realizing the shame of lacking firepower despite being a player with ties to the destruction school of magic—he equated "equivalence" with Justice, deciding to devote himself to the path of Justice.

But unexpectedly, not long after he left, someone cursed him.

The curse named "Knot" wasn’t complicated, naturally falling within Annan’s knowledge.

Although Annan knew the principle of this curse and how to unravel it, he had no intention of informing Tan Juan—because it wasn’t the kind of high-level curse that entangles with the soul and is difficult to lift.

The "Knot" series of curses are, at their core, a form of "inhibition."

Inhibiting the birth of a fetus, inhibiting male desires, inhibiting the body’s self-healing capabilities, and so on... It was only after the curse combined with one that induced disease with mold that it could debilitate Tan Juan with a high fever leading to death.

But a curse of this magnitude can be washed away simply by dying once.

And Tan Juan wasn’t a real wizard of destruction—he just smelled like one. There was no need to worry that his death would blow up the surrounding streets or cause collateral damage to civilians.

After all, there were never any civilians here to begin with...

Saltpeter Ranch—the demon’s pasture, a paradise for sinners.

The vast majority of people here were condemned to death. Apart from those who, like them, traveled expressly from other Underground Cities by subway, there wasn’t a single innocent person.

And those who came here from other places certainly had their own agendas.

After all, this was the southernmost part of the United Kingdom.

It was the edge of the civilized world. Therefore, there were no passing subways from here... The subway that reached Saltpeter Ranch came once every forty days, and there was only one freight subway with just two carriages for passengers.

The main purpose was to transport the saltpeter. Whether people were transported or not really didn’t matter... Even other Underground Cities wouldn’t bother about criminals wanted at the infamous Saltpeter Ranch.

—"All of you are scum; there’s no crime in killing. Who would be wanted in such a place?"

They’re either gigantic scum that can’t easily be messed with or good people who clean up the scum.

So, it didn’t matter which kind you were.

At that time, Annan still had the attitude of a curious onlooker, hoping that Tan Juan would make it all the way through with a bang. It just so happened that it would also let him gauge the output capacity of the "absolute power profession" recommended by Naifertali.

For this reason, Annan kept his perspective fixed on Tan Juan.

...But unexpectedly.

He didn’t get to see the excitement but unintentionally obtained some very useful information instead.

Ingrid, the "Eternal Maiden," craving the Power of the Chariot and targeting the truth of "Love Ascendant."

Investing her "love" to yearn for love’s echo; using "love" to enable the ascension of others’ souls—and such an elevation in soul class is precisely what’s known as "The Chariot."

The Seventh Daylight of the sun is the light seen when a Transcendent soul is escorted to the realm of light by the Charioteer during the Ascension Ceremony.

What the Eternal Maiden refers to by "Ascendant" is this Daylight.

If death had a direction, it would surely be downwards; if the ascension from human to divinity had a direction, it would undoubtedly be upwards.

Just like a hearse is a ritual object that transports the deceased’s soul downwards; The Chariot, on the other hand, is about the soul’s upward elevation, distancing from death, obtaining authority.

—The Chariot operates on the paths of "ascension and transformation," a four-wheeled chariot. It is the non-material collective concept of "ascension."

Although Ingrid only yearns for "Love Ascendant," which is just one of the many forms of ascension.

However, her ritual is, in reality, also a pursuit of the Book of the Celestial Chariot. At the very least, she is calling for fragments of the Book of the Celestial Chariot.

And The Chariot is light—light born in the mirror.

Equally simple and bright, yet Annan is brighter still, which is why Tan Juan is Annan’s first mirror; for simplicity and brightness are the sun’s first Daylight. Annan and Denton are both tormented by countless failures, yet Annan never gives up hope. The undiminished, ever-new hope is the light of the second Daylight, so Denton is Annan’s second mirror. By this logic, Ingrid, who also holds Seventh Daylight, is undoubtedly a mirror. And she is the seventh mirror that does not exist in the Book of the Celestial Chariot.

Because the Book of the Celestial Chariot only has six pages.

Annan hissed softly, "It’s really just as the Stone Father said... Destiny is the rut of the chariot, leaving tracks only after having passed."

When Annan pursued the mirror with his own will, he couldn’t find his own mirror. Because a wheel cannot roll precisely on the very track it has made—just as interfering with destiny can lead to changes in destiny itself.

The destiny altered by interference is like the track taken on a second pass.

After learning from the Faceless Poet, deducing that "he had a total of seven mirrors" and that "Nicholas was his fourth mirror," Annan had since been unable to come across any new information related to "mirrors."

In this sense, the action of the Faceless Poet was indeed part of secret-keeping... She used disclosure to prevent new secrets from being revealed.

And now, Annan’s action to collect the fragments of the Book of the Celestial Chariot had hit a deadlock.

He had almost forgotten about it.

Then this scene unfolded.

Without any interference from Annan... Four Darks inadvertently helped him find the seventh mirror.

——This was undoubtedly what is known as "destiny."

Four Darks and the other players were unaware of the existence of the "mirror." After hearing Saint Henry’s introduction to the "Eternal Maiden," he would never think in that direction.

Because only in the nightmare of "Gemini" that Annan played did Seti recite a passage from the Book of the Praise of the Chariot of the Heavens to him. The players naturally wouldn’t know the details of Annan’s success, nor would they realize there was a problematic book here.

Thus, when Four Darks summarized the information to the other players, critical yet easily forgettable information like the Eternal Maiden’s actual longing being "Love Ascendant," and the title of Eternal Maiden coming from the Book of the Praise of the Chariot of the Heavens, might just be overlooked as "meaningless background introductions."

If Four Darks had summarized the information as "the Eternal Maiden plans to awaken her lover’s essence of ’love’ to its extreme"; if Annan had not been watching Four Darks at that moment...

Then Annan would have missed this critical information.

He would never realize that Ingrid was his seventh mirror—given that there are only six known pages of the Book of the Celestial Chariot to date. The thoughtform of Nicholas, who had fled, was the fourth mirror; besides that, there was the sixth mirror that he had always failed to find.

"...Wait a second, something isn’t right."

Annan suddenly felt conflicted again.

He curled up, hugging his head and crouching on the chair.

Because he had just realized an even more important issue—

Now that he knew Ingrid was his seventh mirror just as he knew Nicholas’ thoughtform was his fourth mirror.

So...

Could he go to find Ingrid now? Could he send players to find Ingrid on his behalf?

"——So is it better for me to know or not to know?!"

Annan was completely flustered.

He suddenly wanted to give the Faceless Poet a pounding.

——If it wasn’t for your spoiler alert, would I be this conflicted now?!

"Forget it, let’s not say anything..."

In the end, he decided it was best to neither act nor give any directions. Just watch them act freely... If everything went well, then Ingrid should eventually appear before Annan herself.

Just in case, it’s best if Annan didn’t meddle with or give any orders to Lin Yiyi’s entire squad anymore.

Just leave it to their "AI."

"Although I appear as an NPC in the eyes of the players, I have to, in turn, treat the players as NPCs..."

Annan always felt something was not quite right.

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