Super Righteous Player
Chapter 822 - 361: Suicide

Chapter 822: Chapter 361: Suicide

Murder a deity?

Annan was instantly stunned.

The young Annan in the mirror slightly widened his eyes, an expression of astonishment appearing on his face.

And the script being fed into Annan’s mind continued to play.

"Theoretically, deities can be killed by mortals."

"And in fact, since the Second Age, at least a double-digit number of deities have fallen."

"However, up to this point, no one has ever achieved the feat of deicide."

"This is because the domain of ’murder’ is already controlled by the Tragic Writer, whose power isn’t enough to keep the secrets of ’murder’ hidden from other deities."

"From this perspective, the existence of the Tragic Writer has, in fact, brought ’murder’ into the domain of order, making it traceable. All acts of ’murder’ can be pre-detected and tracked after the fact. Deities inherently have a resistance to murder."

"Therefore, ’murdering’ a deity is impossible."

"But what if the murderer didn’t even participate in the ’murder’ itself? Could the conspiracy remain hidden?"

"And since you’ve triggered this explanation, it means my plan has already succeeded."

Annan almost immediately reacted—

This was nearly the same method used by Tricino, the "Gemini" nightmare, with the "Purifier Detector" he had arranged!

And young Annan’s mastery of ritual studies even surpassed that of Pope Tricino.

His control over nightmares was so precise that he could accurately determine "who the Purifier entering the nightmare was" and "what the current state of that person was."

The moment Annan entered this nightmare, the device was automatically activated.

Even if someone peered at Annan from outside the nightmare, they wouldn’t be able to see the script that was emerging in his mind, not in front of his eyes.

And before Annan’s eyes, a completely different introductory text materialized:

"You are Annan Winter, the younger brother of Dmitry Winter."

"A timid, introverted, and socially inept person, yet you naturally possess extraordinary wisdom."

"You are exceptionally skilled in ritual studies, but this skill normally has no use in everyday life."

"Thus, when faced with the request from your brother to extend the life of the Grand Duke of Winter, ’Ivan Rime,’... you presented him with a bold suggestion: to summon The Worm."

At the same time, another, deeper secret emerged in Annan’s mind:

"Murder may be impossible, but ’revenge’ is possible."

"There is no deity of vengeance in this world; the domain of revenge is open to all. If the rationale of ’revenge’ is layered over the cause of ’murder,’ the perception of murder by the deities can be deceived."

"And I cannot execute the ’revenge’ myself. Because the sin itself is upon me... To cut off this sin, I must sever the connection with the ’avenger.’"

"In other words, I have to die once."

"If Dmitry were to emerge victorious, then The Worm must grant his father, the finest of the Winter Grand Dukes, ’Ivan the Third,’ the power of immortality."

"In doing so, the people of Winter will obtain an eternal sovereign, half dragon and half human—if Dmitry fails, the cost would be the loss of his fertility."

"So here I will summon The Worm."

"If it were another brother, he might doubt Annan’s motives. But Dmitry is a generous brother, and he chose to believe in Annan."

"He trusted not just the plan Annan had proposed, but also that they would surely win."

After the brief introductory narrative in front of him ended.

The introduction in Annan’s mind did not stop.

Moreover, it switched directly from third-person to first-person, with both the narrator and the voice becoming the calm and low voice of young Annan.

"——But this plan was doomed to fail."

"Because the moment the thought of ’murder’ was conceived, the Tragic Writer had already sensed everything. Even if I could cover it with ’revenge,’ I couldn’t hide from the ’murder’ and ’conspiracy’ itself."

"However, you can consider from the beginning that it’s ’bound to fail.’—"

"The Tragedy Writer is also the Wolf in the Valley, who in turn is the God of Werewolves. His Pope, the Professor of Wolves, possesses Divine Arts that can directly influence the thoughts of werewolves; hence, Bella herself is an unstable factor and must be eliminated."

"But at the same time, Bella is also being manipulated by ’Thumb’ Vladimir. Vladimir, a Worm Cultist, aims to steal the Fragments of Truth from the Book of the Celestial Chariot, so I have to keep him away from me."

"Thus, I will use the foolish Bella to detonate Vladimir’s conspiracy. Vladimir’s research on the Frost Beast will expose the nobles of the anti-Winter faction, readying them for future removal."

"Additionally, the Professor of Wolves can exert emotional influence on werewolves, whose propensity to go Berserk is inherently linked to the ’setting’ crafted by the Tragedy Writer. Therefore, werewolves cannot gain power in Winter until the Tragedy Writer has lifted their curse."

"From my understanding of Bella, she will ultimately betray Winter, driven by her yearning love and foolishness—because the sugar she first offered Dmitry already contained a curse to ’amplify desires.’ This is precisely how she made Dmitry, who held the Heart of Justice, fall in love with her."

"The blood of yearning love flows within werewolves—the more they crave the love of others, the more frenzied they become. Bella has been out of control from the very beginning. She will be ruthless in pursuit of love."

"To nullify the disaster she might cause by exposing Vladimir, she will likely leverage the werewolves’ resistance to the Frost Beast to bring them under Winter’s hand. This is the conspiracy arranged by the Professor using her as the medium, attempting to control the Duchy of Winter."

"If she does so, it will serve as an opportunity to cleanse Winter’s hand. Certain powers of Winter’s hand can be centralized, further strengthening the authority of the Grand Duke of Winter."

"If everything goes according to plan, I will kill my old self. And you will hold the Heart of Justice—you will inevitably be unable to forgive me."

"That is of no consequence... You might wonder why I had to plot a murder. The answer is simple, the Rotting Husband holds an incomplete logic of eternity, which is a part of the Celestial Chariot’s logic. What he once stole for his king through a ritual, was indeed the logic of the Celestial Chariot—"

"As long as the Rotting Husband lives, new gods borne of the ’New Celestial Chariot’ will not have eternal life."

"But if one kills the Rotting Husband in a mortal’s flesh, one can obtain the complete ’logic of eternity,’ the highest level of the ’Turning of the Four Wheels.’"

"By slaying the god of immortality and barrenness in mortal flesh, as the Pillar of the Common World is pulled out, all ’curses of barrenness’ and ’curses of immortality’ in the world will disperse, a ’creation’s work’ that changes the world."

"And as a Transcendent who slays a deity, one will automatically complete the ’Crown of the Supreme’ at that moment."

"At the same time, the ’curse of barrenness’ that Dmitry has suffered will also be lifted then."

"And you—the future me, you will eventually avenge Dmitry."

"You can choose to bear my sins, it doesn’t matter."

"Even so, you will still be recognized by the Heart of Justice—because repentance and atonement are also a part of justice, especially since the sins you bear were not originally ’yours.’"

"And I am leaving this message here to tell you all the reasons..."

"Just to urge you not to waste time anymore, vainly searching for some hidden ’mastermind.’"

Annan, in a trance, seemed to see a cold smile on his reflection in the mirror.

It was a smile cold and arrogant, like that of a demon lord who had everything in the world in his grasp.

It had nothing to do with his own will.

Just by understanding people’s hearts, he had laid out elaborate conspiracies.

To achieve his ends, he would even include "himself" and "the future self" into his plans.

Even unhesitatingly killing his current self... wiping out everything about himself.

Memories, records, commemorations.

Even destroying all portraits, diaries, and personal belongings, he had created a new "self" to overwrite the old one, making him utterly unrecoverable.

—Such a resolute, irreversible death.

Even when using his future self, an unwaveringly solid identity.

This was the "letter" he left for himself before summoning the Rotting Husband.

Before the plan even commenced, he had already prepared an end that would be "destroyed" for himself; perhaps even at the beginning, when he first chose the path of Ritualist, he had thought of preparing ’Round Two’ for himself.

Every action, every conspiracy was a foreshadowing lain for the ’smoothest Round Two.’

He was truly a madman.

And an extremely calm and clever madman at that.

"...So, I was such a terrifying person?"

Annan showed a complicated expression.

Should I say... it’s a good thing I chose to be on the side of justice?