Super Righteous Player
Chapter 698 - 239: The God of Similarity_1

Chapter 698: Chapter 239: The God of Similarity_1

This could hardly be a coincidence.

Fate is like the ruts of a chariot in heaven.

At least by the time Annan had made up his mind to get involved—or rather, far before that, from the very first time he had been drawn into it—the situation had already been changed by his presence.

Rather than saying...

Annan pondered.

What if these "coincidences" had already occurred before he stepped into the picture?

After all, no one is omniscient, nor can anyone narrate everything objectively.

Perhaps what Yufimia had said was indeed everything she knew, but that did not necessarily represent the most thorough truth.

What she knew might not be the deepest truth.

For instance, Yufimia did not know about the existence of the Eternal Principality... and even less that the Eternal Duke had, for a very long time, always been portrayed by the same person.

And the Melvin family’s most adept technique was the "Law of Similarity" from the doctrine of idolatry.

So perhaps it isn’t that the situation of the Eternal Principality is the same as that of the Melvin family...

But rather, the heritage of the "God among men" comes directly from the "Law of Similarity" imitated from the Land of the Eternal?

This is not impossible—or rather, Annan believed this to be the deepest truth.

To use a one-time Gold-tier prowess to create a force capable of resisting the Frost Beast troops... it seemed rather wasteful. They couldn’t be going through such a large detour just for the sake of battle strength.

Therefore, what they needed... was most likely some other application of Gold-tier Transcendents.

And such applications were beyond Yufimia’s authority to know.

Think about it again... the buried history of the Eternal Nation.

It was also the birthplace of history’s first "god of the non-spell", who could construct truth on his own without relying on the Book of Truth. It’s quite reasonable that this tradition itself was powerful.

And if the tradition shaped by the Melvin family was fundamentally designed to overlap with the Eternal Principality.

Then...

"...Could it be that what they want is the divine position of the Skeleton Lord?"

Annan murmured.

According to Yufimia, the Melvin family had always been focused on creating living corpses and death pupae... if this tradition were stretched over centuries, then the amount of these things they had amassed would make them seem very wasteful and very patient.

Annan was more inclined to think that this tradition had not been maintained for too long.

A dozen death pupae. A three-digit number of living corpses.

According to Annan’s research... as the largest wizard family in Frostwater Harbor, including its branches, the Melvin family would have about thirty descendants every decade. And the inheritors of the "god among men" title could not even be found once a decade... it would take about twenty to thirty years for one to emerge.

That "three-digit" figure didn’t sound very high. Otherwise, Yufimia would have said "more than two hundred" or "more than three hundred".

It’s like when someone claims to earn a five-figure salary, it’s usually just a little over ten thousand; or when someone claims to come from BAT, it’s usually that B in BAT...

If Yufimia wasn’t exaggerating, then the most they had was a collection of thirty-plus years - assuming Yufimia knew about over a hundred living corpses from when she was a child, which was from Annan’s mother’s generation, then calculate another thirty-plus years upwards...

"...That would be about sixty years ago."

Annan murmured, "If it’s around a hundred living corpses, it could even be less than fifty years at the shortest."

According to Annan’s understanding, the last time the Melvin family changed the "god among men" was in the year 1451.

And now it is the year 1504.

This means that the last change of the "god among men" was about fifty-plus years ago... if it started from his generation, that would roughly match up.

...Wait a second.

Annan pondered for a moment before asking in his mind,

"Elle, when were you born?"

[...Huh? Wait, wait, let me think...]

Caught off guard by the question, Elle’s thoughts became somewhat scrambled.

After a moment of consideration, she replied:

[It should be 1442... Yes, that’s right. June 12th... Is there something wrong?]

"It’s nothing,"

Annan reassured, "I just thought of it and wanted to ask."

—In fact, there was something.

Amos had offered her to the Bone Lord on her sixteenth birthday. At that time, the Bone Lord had already arrived at Frostwater Harbor.

That was in 1458.

The span between Elle’s birth and death was less than a decade from when the Melvin family implemented their "Gold Transmutation" plan.

And if one shifted focus from Elle to the Bone Lord...

The Bone Lord was an enemy of Yawen and was not welcomed by the Gravekeeper Matron. Before coming to Noah, he could only go to the Winter Principality or the Underworld.

If it is assumed that He had been in the Winter Principality before heading to Frostwater Harbor... Then it wouldn’t be too difficult for the Melvin family to acquire the information that "the Eternal Duke for the past few generations was actually the Bone Lord in disguise."

Annan remembered the first time he met the Bone Lord; the Bone Lord had snatched a mysterious book detailing many old affairs of the Bone Lord from his hands. He thought at the time that the Bone Lord was his enemy... But the Bone Lord seemed to have a great respect for his grandmother and did not make a move against Annan.

So why did He take the records about Himself?

What gave Him such a habit?

Putting together the similarities of the Melvin family... Annan probably knew what the Melvin family was trying to do.

"As for that ’Satiety Gold’... It’s probably the same type of plan,"

he muttered with a quiet snicker, "I see. That was close, I almost got fooled."

Yufimia was completely unaware of the crux of the issue.

The Melvin family... was indeed rebellious.

But they were different from the uncultured gang of the Extreme North Brotherhood. They were a wizard family with a long tradition. They naturally should know that there’s no point in seizing power from the Winter Principality—it has been a familial legacy from the elves’ time.

—Their real goal was to steal the Bone Lord’s truth.

They learned about the Bone Lord’s past through some means. It was they who changed the Melvin family’s tradition and fashioned it into an "idol of resemblance" according to the standards of the Eternal Principality, so the "God on Earth" is equivalent to the "Eternal Duke."

And the divine child they cultivated, in order to inherit the position of the God on Earth... naturally possessed the same type of elemental power. This was the similarity they deliberately fostered.

Weak idol wizards could borrow the power of strong idol wizards through "Law of Similarity"; conversely, powerful idol wizards could also use this approach to absorb and assimilate those who are similar but weaker.

This degree of quickened Gold-rank, in terms of combat power, wasn’t different from a demonized defiler. But their only difference was that they could burn their souls to extract a large amount of pure elemental power.

And if the types of these elemental powers were consistent...

It would mean the "God on Earth" could consolidate all these powers onto themselves. The traits of the senior family members are also sufficiently similar to the God on Earth... They might be able to project their spirit or power into it, too.

In the end, the "God on Earth" would become like the Bone Lord—betraying the entire clan and absorbing their existences. Folding their "cause of death" into Himself, fusing bodies and curses...

Once He attained the same stature as the Bone Lord, and enough similarity, He could devour the Bone Lord’s existence through the "Law of Similarity."

So the "Gold" in the Satiety Gold plan...

Could it really be referring to ordinary "gold"?

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