Super Righteous Player
Chapter 714 - 255 Forgiveness of the Bone Picker_1

Chapter 714: Chapter 255 Forgiveness of the Bone Picker_1

At the instant the fabricated nightmare world shattered, Annan saw a prompt he had never seen before—

[The World Has Been Purified]

...Wasn’t it supposed to be Nightmare Purified?

Moreover, I clearly didn’t enter a nightmare, so why would such a prompt appear before me...

Such thoughts bubbled up in Annan’s mind.

But he just continued to read on.

[Uncovered the true nature of the nightmare, rating increased]

[All members survived, rating significantly increased]

[Completed the purification the first time you entered this nightmare, rating significantly increased]

["The Remnants of Skeleton King Midas" have been purified, rating significantly increased]

[Completed the purification as an Angel Envoy, rating decreased]

[Comprehensive rating—S+]

[Received 29,500 common experience points, Perception +3, Willpower +1]

[Received dungeon completion reward: A weaker profession is elevated by three levels]

[Received World Purification Reward: Element (Understanding) awakening depth increased by 25%]

[You have mastered "Ritual Spell: Trace of the Chariot"]

[Based on the nightmare’s location, you have received a cursed item gifted by the Bone Picker: Forgiveness of the Bone Picker]

[Forgiveness of the Bone Picker]

[Type: Weapon/Ritual Tool/Curious Object (Gold)]

[Description: A weapon manifested as a double-barreled short hunting shotgun with pure white wings and inlaid golden runes, with only one bullet. Can be transformed into a silver ring.]

[Description: It predates any "gun". Before the invention of "guns", it seems to have had another use (Mystery Ritual check failed)]

[Effect: The person killed by this gun will be forgotten by the world.]

[Cost: You must possess sufficient determination to fire the bullet]

"’Forgiveness’, huh? So you just handle forgiving the dead, while I’m responsible for turning them into the dead?"

Annan muttered under his breath, without conscious thought.

...What a strange thing.

And why give me something like this?

Annan, of course, knew that "Bone Picker" was another name for the Bone Picker Grandma.

"Grandma isn’t even granting any holy Light of the Chariot marks this time..."

Did she think she’d have to give out too many this time and found it bothersome, so she just gave cash instead?

Although Annan didn’t frequently use the divine arts from the Bone Picking domain...

So the old lady directly gave him an extremely potent cursed item.

Although it could only be used once, this effect... truly befits the nomenclature of a True God.

Strictly speaking, this gun can’t really be considered a weapon.

Because it only has one bullet.

In fact, this exceptionally cool-looking gun doesn’t have a magazine, nor any place to insert another bullet or gunpowder... its muzzle is just a shallow pit about one centimeter deep, it’s more absurd than a toy gun.

At least a toy gun can shoot small balls.

With that configuration, it’s utterly impossible for Annan to load his own bullets.

That indentation looks less like a barrel and more like a channel carved into a stone wall for blood to flow during an animal sacrifice.

And where the trigger should be, there actually is a pendulum... like the kind that swings rhythmically under a clock.

As soon as Annan received the gun, he had accidentally touched the pendulum, but he didn’t hear any mechanical sound from within the firearm. It felt soft and limp, giving no feedback at all to the touch.

—A telepathic safety.

That advanced, huh?

Annan quickly lost interest in this newly acquired toy.

After transforming it into a ring and slipping it onto his finger, he continued to look through the rewards from the instance.

Although he wasn’t the one who triggered the instance, Annan still unexpectedly received a part of the rewards... it’s just uncertain whether he took the players’ share as well.

What surprised Annan the most was the "Ritual Spell: Trace of the Chariot," which turned out to be from the Idol School of Magic.

——It seemed to be the same one that Yufimia used, the ritual spell that borrowed Annan’s power.

After all, it was an Idol Spell that drew upon the Power of the Chariot from Annan through a similar melody. It made sense that Annan learned it after looking at it just once.

It’s just that this thing didn’t seem to serve any significant purpose... or rather, Annan didn’t know what its specific effect was.

The previous time he witnessed this move, Annan was just a bystander enjoying the show—watching as Yufimia sweated profusely and exhaustedly maintained the ritual, while Selicia screamed nonstop beside her, "Ahhhhhhh" without showing any resistance, nor did it seem to have any special effect. In the end, both of them just melted away...

...What exactly is the effect of this move?

Annan curiously and for the first time in a while flipped through his spell properties, only to discover that it wasn’t described clearly there either...

[Ritual Spell: Trace of the Chariot: Requires the Radiant Element as the core. After being affected by an effect with the "Fate" affix, perform the prerequisite ritual "Give a precise description of the Celestial Chariot"; and make a declaration to confirm one’s own relation to the Chariot in order to deepen the compatibility with the Chariot.]

[Secondary Incantation: "Celestial Chariot, I am the gate! I am the Triple Gate: I am the Gate of Gaze and Shaping, I am the Gate of Virtue and Permanence, I am the Gate of The Worm and Cicada." By calling upon the "Celestial Chariot" that resides above the Triple Gate, opening each gate releases one third of the Light of the Chariot. However, opening a gate beyond the allowed level of compatibility will lead to one’s own "melting."]

[Current Ritual Compatibility: 100%]

——Didn’t quite understand.

The rest is manageable; at least I know how to use this ability.

The main thing I didn’t understand is the Triple Gate... Nor do I know what the "Light of the Chariot" effect actually is. Certainly, the Light of the Chariot summoned by Yufimia wasn’t the correct way to use it.

Even if it’s the Radiant Element that Annan had just awakened after consuming the Philosopher’s Stone, it’s improbable to thread light through one’s body as if doing a cross-stitch...

Such a strange use is akin to knocking someone out cold with a gold brick, then exclaiming "Is this the power of money?"

Even if it’s some terribly frightening guy, he surely wouldn’t use it that way...

As for the Triple Gate, that was even more baffling.

Even with Annan’s secret knowledge, he had never heard of something called "Triple Gate." He hadn’t even seen the term in any esoteric dictionaries.

However...

Annan did know what "Cicada" meant—since cicadas have the habit of molting, and "molting" is, in fact, another way to describe "Stigmatization." Consequently, in mysticism, the cicada symbolizes the path to ascension.

So if the Cicada represents the Transcendent... what’s the Worm?

Could it be the Fallen?

But that seems unlikely. The Celestial Chariot is the culmination of the Ascension Path—at the end of an Ascension Ritual, the ascending being must take the Chariot to the realm of light to achieve divinity."Cicada" relating to the Ascendant makes sense; it seems unrelated to the Fallen, however.

For instance, the nightmare from the Otherworld has ended by now and is even starting to tally up.

But the players’ view hasn’t recovered yet, instead remaining pitch black.

This might be because Elle is performing the final ascension ritual within the fragments of the nightmare.

Thinking about it actually makes me upset.

Even though my Book of Truth is the Book of the Celestial Chariot, I couldn’t see anything when Elle was ascending...

If the "Triple Gate" is not an obscure reference, then it implies secret knowledge of at least a "historical" level... perhaps even "Genesis" level.

That means top secret.

I’m afraid only upon meeting that blabbermouth poet again might I be able to inquire about these things...

For now, it looks like it’s probably an ability with a targeted effect against the "Fate" element, ensuring a hit that breaks through defenses and delivers a critical strike...

"I just don’t know if this targeted effect will work just as well against the magicians from the School of Prophets."

Annan murmured to himself.

But at the next moment, four notices flashed before his eyes in succession:

[You are being watched by "Justice"...]

[You are being watched by "Mercy"...]

[You are being watched by "Sacrifice"...]

[You are being watched by "Hope"...]

"...Hmm?"

Annan paused for a moment.

...What’s going on, why are there more sacred relics paying attention to me?