Super Righteous Player
Chapter 821 - 360 The Guilty Annan

Chapter 821: Chapter 360 The Guilty Annan

"Purify a nightmare before dinner?

"Ah, that’s no problem, Your Majesty Annan."

Facing the visiting Annan, His Excellency Alexander readily agreed, "Leave it to me. Although I’m not a professional priest, taking care of the bodies of those who purify nightmares is part of my job.

"Besides, you have already prepared the ritual... I’m just responsible for keeping watch for you."

The man, lion-like, laughed heartily, "Not to mention, I’m quite good at guarding doors! Hahahahaha!"

His words were indeed true.

Especially considering their current location, which was actually inside a bank...

The essence of Iris Bank is that it is the royal treasury and also the sanctum of the Silver Baron. As the former captain of the Silver Knights, even if he were to fight the Winter Reverser head-on in this place, he would certainly not lose.

But the reason Annan had specifically sought Alexander was not because he was worried about assassination attempts.

——More so, he was worried about his senior, Salvatore.

His Curse Binding restrained him, preventing Salvatore from sleeping during the day. Otherwise, his body would be taken over by the shadows... and his second Curse Binding caused him to regress one year in age for every hour he slept during the day.

These two Curse Bindings were quite bizarre. Especially since Salvatore, as a "professionally trained" genuine wizard, had chosen his Curse Bindings himself.

Annan wondered if one day the senior couldn’t hold out, perhaps the senior would turn into a junior sister... If he slept a little longer, he might even turn into a young girl.

The reason Salvatore had chosen these two Curse Bindings in conjunction was also very simple.

Probably because he was worried that if his body was ever controlled by the shadows, the effect of the second Curse Binding would allow him—or rather, her—to rapidly regress back into a little girl, making it long-term debilitation without causing any harm to the outside world.

——My senior, you’re so strong.

Annan couldn’t help but praise in private.

Even in choosing his Curse Bindings, he was thinking of "others".

Not to relieve his own pain from the lack of sleep, but worried about "what if I can’t control myself" and how to implement self-sealing.

Although based on previous experiences, this nightmare wouldn’t last too long. It probably wouldn’t take more than an hour or two until they cleared it.

But just in case...

Even though "Sister Vatore" seemed to have harmonized a lot with the senior, Annan couldn’t guarantee that she definitely wouldn’t take over the senior’s body.

Therefore, Annan still called for Alexander.

Only when the senior actively fell asleep could "Sister Vatore," who had the second level of authority, awaken from the body. Just like sleepwalking... Or like Gaara’s Feigning Sleep Technique.

As long as the senior wasn’t actively in a deep sleep, but his entire body had "fainted" instead, "Sister Vatore" would faint as well.

What made Annan most curious was,

if in such a situation, he delved into a nightmare...

Then was the senior considered one person, or two?

With this curiosity,

Anann gradually fell into a deep sleep at his ritual site.

Since there were obviously no beds in the bank, they used three sofas as the three ritual cores. Although it wasn’t very comfortable, Annan didn’t care about such things—safety was more important, and after all, he wasn’t a fussy person.

The sofas of Iris Bank were much more comfortable than the damp, cold, and hard beds at the mayor’s house in Frostwater Harbor.

Soon, Annan plunged into the nightmare.

[Falling into a nightmare, creating instance...]

[Instance difficulty is hard, can be entered up to ten times]

[Current purification rate is 6/10]

[Total party erosion rate is 68%, instance difficulty increases by 68%, nightmare deformation probability increases by 68%]

[Nightmare has been deformed]

[This instance has two save points, each death increases erosion rate by 3%, forced exit after one death]

[This instance provides plot introduction and has decryption rewards]

[Instance clearance reward: Bronze-tier and lower wizard occupations level up 1-3 levels; Silver-tier wizard occupations level up 1 level]

[Instance decryption reward: Curse Binding "Immortal"]

[Copy Loading Complete]

...Startled.

Consciousness still not entirely awakened, Annan felt a lump of frustration in his mouth, an urge he had to spit out.

—This was the first time he had seen a nightmare undergo such a distortion without fulfilling any special conditions.

Who was dragging their feet after all?

Kafney was cleansed of her corruption level once by Annan when she was last in Frostwater Harbor. At that time, Kafney’s corruption level had returned to zero.

Since his encounter with Endymion, under the purification of the "Radiance" element, Annan’s own corruption level had also been reset to zero.

That means... Either Kafney’s corruption level had risen again, or Salvatore, who squatted daily at Heath Tower of Black conducting transmutation experiments, had inexplicably seen an increase in his.

After getting out, I’ll have to give them a check-up...

Annan thought to himself.

And just then, his consciousness gradually became clearer.

The introduction to the nightmare appeared.

A cold, deep, and youthful voice arose from behind Annan:

"—Cowards seek to apologize before betrayal, while the vile do so afterwards..."

This was also the first time Annan had heard these words from this angle, words he had once said.

The voice was quite pleasant, truly befitting of me.

Sounded perfect for singing "Little White Boat".

Annan mentally noted.

But the thought of the young Annan in the memory of "Bella’s Love and Fear", who seemed to comprehend all truths yet did not prevent the tragedy from happening.

Annan subconsciously replied, "What about you?

"Are you a coward or a villain?"

He didn’t expect to receive any response.

After all, the "introduction" was just a snippet of thought, void of consciousness, much less a soul. It was merely the phenomenon of "memory"... just like the essence of Nicholas II.

But against Annan’s expectations.

A clearer introductory voice resounded from behind him:

"I am the guilty..."

Annan turned around immediately.

There was no one behind him.

It was a floor-length mirror.

Under the dim lighting, Annan turned back.

And he saw his own reflection in the mirror, half his face illuminated by the evening sun’s firelight, the other half submerged in darkness.

It was a young, delicate child.

But there was none of the carefree liveliness typical of his peers on his face, only an abyssal darkness so profound it seemed to be the deep abyss itself.

The whisper of the introduction grew fainter by several degrees.

In Annan’s mind, it echoed softly:

"...and the wages of sin is death."

Without any delay.

The script of the play began to flash across Annan’s mind.

And the first line stunned him.

Because the plot was completely different from what Husky had seen before—

[You are Annan Winter, the evil among evils, the enemy of all enemies]

[You have a bold, and lengthy plan]

[—To murder a deity]

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