Super Righteous Player
Chapter 799 - 338 Dmitry’s Daughter_1

Chapter 799: Chapter 338 Dmitry’s Daughter_1

After learning some of the truth from Annan, Dmitry seemed lost in thought.

He slumped into the sofa seat, like a pearl lava cake sliced open, slowly collapsing in on itself.

"So it was like this..."

He murmured to himself in realization, "No wonder..."

Clearly, he had finally untangled some of his past confusions.

The information Annan had given him was like a key piece of the puzzle—only after picking up this piece did Dmitry realize that the picture he had put together before was altogether wrong.

"...I’m sorry, Annan."

Dmitry said softly, "I need to smoke."

He took a new cigar from the case on his chest, cut off the end with a guillotine-like cigar cutter, very carefully lit it with a match, took a slow drag, and then exhaled deeply.

Mixed with fatigue, regret, sadness, and reminiscence... the murky air that had clouded his chest also dispersed with the smoke throughout the room.

Drawing a deep breath, indescribable complex emotions overflowed from Dmitry’s heart.

It was an extended silence.

About a third of a cigar’s time later, Dmitry slowly said, "Anyway... she betrayed her mission as the hand of winter and indirectly triggered the Icebreaking Rebellion, causing the death of thousands. Not to mention the chaos that ensued when the werewolves tried to enter the Ten Fingers..."

"Even if her initial intentions were good?"

"But in the end, she messed it all up."

Dmitry closed his eyes, "I am a consequentialist."

His voice seemed to regain its usual calm.

—Perhaps, you wish you were a consequentialist.

Annan thought.

He could see that as the gloom lifted from Dmitry, annoyance and sorrow were still entwined around him.

Even though Dmitry now knew Bella’s initial intentions, the damage her actions caused did not simply vanish. Her "self-sacrifice" indeed mitigated greater destruction under Annan’s guidance...

However, if Annan hadn’t preemptively orchestrated the collision between Vladimir and "Professor Wolf," taken advantage of Bella’s folly at the opportune moment to carry out as many plans as possible, perhaps the disaster Bella caused would have been even greater. It might even be unresolved now.

Even from a deontological standpoint, Bella’s foolish actions at the time cannot be redeemed—she indeed planned to sacrifice Dmitry’s fertility, knowing that Dmitry could not have a werewolf child and yet still made deals with outsiders, betraying her lover while attempting to bring external forces into the nation’s upper echelons.

And Dmitry says... he is a consequentialist, thus Bella is still guilty.

From this, Annan could see that Dmitry had already lost the ability to think clearly. For such a long time, Dmitry had not been reflecting... he was only soothing his emotions.

It’s because Dmitry did not want to think about the "cause" of the matter.

Or rather, he didn’t want to remember anything about his time with Bella.

When Dmitry knew nothing, focused on hating the "traitor" Bella, he could calmly tell Annan past stories—with a smile of mockery on his face, critiquing his naive past.

But now, he was aware of a significant part of the truth.

The past love and the hatred he had held... had all turned into more profound and complex emotions.

These emotions weighed on Dmitry, even preventing him from thinking straight.

"...Right, if I haven’t misunderstood... do I have a child?"

Dmitry’s voice was somewhat muffled and hoarse as he bit on his cigar.

"Yes, and I’ve mostly figured out who it is."

Annan replied slowly.

"...It’s not Dorin Angel, is it?"

Dmitry frowned, "She seems a bit too old."

"No, definitely not her."

Annan shook his head, "But if nothing unexpected happens, Dorin should be directly involved in this matter—"

Whether it’s the real "Frederick Melvin" or the "Professor Wolf" currently inhabiting him, both are idol school wizards.

The fact that Bella let her guard down immediately upon seeing him is also very unusual. But that sense of security is somewhat similar to the effect of the artifact "The Charlatan and the Missionary" that Annan obtained from Dorin, which was made by Professor Wolf.

As is well known... to craft an artifact with certain abilities, one must first possess that ability. Whether it’s a spell, an aberration, or an influence, it must be held first. Like a phonograph that can reverse time, probably only a Mirror person could make it.

Since he was able to give Dorin "The Charlatan and the Missionary," it means he is also skilled in "Friendship Spell."

And if we consider this sense of security as an effect of the idol spell.

So, the weight of Professor Wolf’s "good deeds" is up for debate.

Perhaps the reason he was able to adopt so many "werewolf orphans"...

Is because he was the one who created so many "family tragedies" in the first place.

The Melvin family specializes in the Law of Similarity, transferring power between two similar yet distinct fates; while Professor Wolf’s true form, "Professor Gray" Tricino Seti, specializes in the Law of Contagion... that is, exerting influence on another party without a direct causative link.

In idol spells based on the Law of Contagion, the most representative of Contagion thought is "Poison Without Cause."

The effect of this spell is to curse and poison the caster through the vomit, hair, or saliva of the target, without any material connection to the target.

Fallen hair, spit-out saliva, and regurgitated food have no material connection to the body, just as spitting on feces doesn’t contaminate the mouth, yet one instinctively feels discomfort.

This spell enforces the continuation of such connections through the idea of contagion.

Severed hair can also be related to the scalp it was connected to; spit-out saliva can still contaminate the mouth; regurgitated food remnants have some ethereal connection with the food still in the stomach.

Naturally, the connections between bloodlines are also a form of connection.

"Professor Wolf is an expert in both the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contagion... That’s why he can fabricate a life for someone else, create a body indistinguishable from the real thing."

Take, for example, the gift he gave to "Solomonik."

A life named "Selicia."

"Then," Annan said slowly, "considering that Dorin Angel grew up with Professor Wolf... Does she really look like this? Almost identical to Bella, even their habits are alike, isn’t it a bit too strange even for blood relatives?"

"...You mean she is a spy sent by Professor Wolf?"

Dmitry paused, his voice growing heavy.

Annan quickly shook his head, "Hold on, Dmitry. You’re really not thinking straight... Professor Wolf wouldn’t do something so meaningless. The more she looks like Bella, the less likely she is to be a spy. That would only raise our guard."

"Then she..."

"If I’m not mistaken, she probably does have a blood relation with Bella. But it’s not her relation to Bella herself that matters... It’s that her mother may have had some connection with Bella’s mother," Annan continued gravely.

"Do you remember how Dorin was raised by Professor Wolf?"

"I remember... It seemed to have something to do with her mother committing murder..."

"Right, but her father was a wizard. Would he really just leave the body unattended and shallowly buried in the yard? As a cub, did Dorin have the strength to dig up the corpse herself? And her parents just watched her turn into beast form to dig without stopping her? And just when she dug up the body, a passerby came as a witness?"

Annan highlighted the questionable aspects of Dorin’s story.

Dmitry frowned.

At the time, he hadn’t paid much attention to these details. Perhaps his disdain for werewolves prevented him from contemplating them... Just as his current sorrow kept him from thinking rationally.

"There’s probably only one answer."

Annan didn’t give Dmitry time to think, announcing his conclusion straight away: "Dorin’s tragedy was likely orchestrated by Professor Wolf himself. As an idol wizard adept in both Laws at the Golden stage, it would be all too simple for him to do such a thing.

"The ultimate goal is to have a werewolf girl child who could ’gradually become similar to Bella.’

The Melvin family excels at nurturing humans into gods.

If a child is imbued with divinity, they will gradually become like a god.

If raised consciously, "Dorin," who is related by blood to Bella, can be made to look exactly like her.

"Dorin and I, Bella and you... This is undoubtedly a form of similarity. He’s trying to affect me through you and Bella’s relationship, through Dorin..."

But clearly, Professor Wolf seems to have failed.

At least as far as it appears for now.

Annan felt absolutely no influence exerted on himself...

"But we can’t rule out the possibility that he actually succeeded."

Annan spoke slowly, "And there’s another phenomenon in the idol school... It’s that all idol wizards who have studied the Law of Contagion, no matter how far apart, are destined to be connected. The actions of one will inevitably affect the others.

"And the resonance felt between distant blood relatives... Is a ’contagion.’

At these words, Dmitry’s pupils shrank slightly.

He looked at Annan, his eyes widening in shock: "You mean..."

"Russell managed to escape from the convoy holding the Frost Beast without causing any stir; so many werewolves died outside the small barrier, but she was shown much affection by the old grandmother, reborn as a Frost Beast... It’s likely all because she inherited your ’Winter’s Heart’ talent.

"And your unprovoked worry for her safety, searching everywhere for her... It’s because there’s an ethereal ’contagion tie’ between you and her. Perhaps she fled the convoy suddenly because she sensed you were nearby and wanted to find you."

Annan spoke slowly: "That’s right, your daughter did die. She died once due to her birth mother’s negligence... But she was reborn in the form of a Frost Beast. Just like Ivan was reborn as a dragon after death... The yet-to-hatch Winter’s Heart presumably wasn’t enough to grant her the power to become dragon-like, but was more than enough for her to be a Frost Beast.

"—Yes, she is Russell."

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