Super Righteous Player
Chapter 886 - 423 Great Curse: Smoke Mirror

Chapter 886: Chapter 423 Great Curse: Smoke Mirror

When Annan had just entered the Pure White Mask Shop,

he distinctly felt a familiar yet bizarre atmosphere, as if he had stepped into a graveyard.

The air around him became cold and quiet, the noise dissipated... it suddenly became very quiet.

If ordinary people came here, they would probably feel inexplicably uneasy. They would feel cold creeping over their bodies and leave as quickly as possible.

And this feeling, Salvatore would mostly not perceive it.

Because his soul had reached the silver stage, such level of curse contamination simply couldn’t shake his mind. He couldn’t even feel the anomaly here.

In other words...

this mask shop wasn’t really intended to have many "ordinary customers."

Only those whose purpose was specifically to "buy the pure white masks" would come, the casual browsers would probably want to leave as soon they stepped through the door.

Annan suddenly realized.

His senior probably hadn’t realized yet... Mr. Chiron was not just "hiding here selling masks."

Salvatore had guessed that Chiron used the "Intuition Rewrite" spell to lead him here. But he hadn’t realized that this mask shop itself was a temporary "Ritual Plate" specifically for communicating with Salvatore and Annan.

It was because the shop looked quite normal from the outside, that Salvatore stopped at the door and hesitated to directly walk in instead of turning and leaving.

And it was precisely because this shop would not have any real customers, that he could lead Salvatore to the back immediately after he came in, without worrying about revealing secrets.

—it was probably Chiron’s purpose to lead Salvatore here, to bring Annan here today.

Once the two of them left, Chiron probably wouldn’t continue to stay here either.

"Lord Salvatore,"

They had been in the mask shop for less than half a minute when Mr. Kai’s voice came from beside them, "and... Emperor Annan, this isn’t our first meeting."

"Indeed. It’s been a while, Mr. Kai."

Annan turned around and stretched out his hand to shake Mr. Kai’s.

He was at least two heads shorter than Mr. Kai, and the size of their palms was significantly different. But Mr. Kai did not show any disrespect; instead, he respectfully bent his waist, "As Your Majesty says."

"No need for such formality," Annan said softly, "I am the Emperor of the Winterpeople, not your Emperor."

"No, you truly are my Emperor."

Mr. Kai earnestly said, "The bearer of the Three-Colored Scepter is the Emperor of the Elves and the centaurs."

At these words, Annan was also taken aback.

This was the first time he had heard such a thing.

Although he had heard before that the Three-Colored Scepter had previously been held by the Elf Emperor, he had only now learned that it was actually a symbol of imperial power in the Aesirland Empire.

"...I thought the Three-Colored Scepter had always been held by the Duke of Winter."

But Annan said so.

He of course knew that the Three-Colored Scepter, a Great Calamity Curio, had been entrusted to the Duke of Winter to guard only after the dissolution of the empire.

He hoped that Mr. Kai would say more, leading him to continue talking on this topic.

Mr. Kai surely caught the hint in Annan’s words, but he did not resist.

Instead of evading the discussion, he continued, "The Three-Colored Scepter... no, the ’Siren of the Three’ was originally part of the imperial authority. The Emperor’s stable rule over the nation was intimately related to the power of the Siren..."

Mr. Kai stopped there, then respectfully bowed to Annan.

Then, he gently extended his hand backwards: "So, Your Majesty... shall we step inside to talk, how about it?"

"Alright."

Annan nodded slightly.

Victor, who had been following behind them, suddenly appeared in the store at that moment.

But Mr. Kai continued to lead the way as if he hadn’t seen Victor at all.

Salvatore turned his head and glanced at Victor.

And Victor simply nodded slightly at him as a greeting.

From the previous conversation between Annan and Mr. Kai, Salvatore began to realize that this meeting might not be as simple as he initially thought... It seemed not so straightforward.

...But it wasn’t a big problem.

After all, Annan was by his side, and there was nothing to panic about.

If there was anything he needed to know, Annan would always find a way to let him know.

With that thought, Salvatore decisively stopped thinking and cleared his mind, cheerfully following Annan into the inner room.

Of course, Salvatore felt no psychological pressure about this—

He was doing this to "know what he knew", not to speculate wildly without knowing the truth or any evidence, which could lead him to form some kind of wrong impression about others prematurely.

If his initial judgment was wrong, then Salvatore’s view of this person or this matter would always be influenced by that impression. Just like at first, he thought Tan Juan was a man without much talent... But later he gradually realized Annan’s talent.

It wasn’t until then that Salvatore realized he had been wrong.

Of course, he also learned later... Tan Juan and Annan were indeed two completely different people. But this didn’t change the fact that Salvatore had indeed misjudged others because of his premature impressions.

Since then, Salvatore has been very cautious when defining others.

Unless Annan directly told him the answer, he would try to see a person in a less extreme light.

Of course, Chiron was an exception.

Salvatore only needed one encounter to know that he was indeed a good, intelligent man. So until Annan directed him to oppose Chiron, Salvatore was willing to trust him.

They entered the basement and first saw a male centaur with his lower half hidden in the painting, only his upper half visible.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for not being able to salute you."

This time it was not Mr. Kai, but the centaur Chiron who spoke, "I have sought you out indeed for help.

"And correspondingly... you may ask me any questions you have."

"So, Master Chiron," Annan said without hesitation, "my suggestion is that you first state your request.

"And based on the difficulty of this request, I will decide what questions to consult with you."

What Annan implied was that he didn’t want to owe any favors. Otherwise, after asking his questions, Chiron might give a very simple request—since this wasn’t a transaction with a clear exchange.

In that case, even though Annan would benefit, he would owe Chiron a favor.

And at his level... favors were actually the most costly thing.

Chiron nodded.

The centaur Sage spoke solemnly, "This request is closely related to your previous question.

"After you obtain the Great Calamity Curio: Smoke Mirror, I need the ’White Lady’ to use the Smoke Mirror to lift the seal that I am currently under."

"...Then, should I inquire about what the Smoke Mirror and the White Lady are used for?"

"This answer can be considered a gift. If you wish, it can be regarded as a down payment."

Chiron answered without hesitation, "If you have been gathering information about Great Calamity Curios, you might have noticed that besides the Smoke Mirror, other Great Calamity Curios have ’numbers’. Such as Winter’s ’Three Sirens’, Noah’s ’Fourth Chronicle’, and The Holy Nation’s ’Sixth Past Book’—these are three of the most easily recognized Great Calamity Curios by name. But there are also three that do not have numbers.

"This actually forms a ritual. These six Great Calamity Curios form the ’Visible Triangle’ and ’Invisible Triangle’. Therefore, while there are three whose names contain numbers, there are also three others that are better hidden.

"And they actually have another unused name that also contains the numbers one to six. For example, the Smoke Mirror.... I think Your Majesty must have heard the saying, ’Light born from the mirror.’"

After Annan nodded, Chiron quickly continued, "The Smoke Mirror has another unused name.

"Which is ’The First Radiance’s Egg Sheath’. It is the world’s oldest mirror, designed to reflect the first light of this world, the sun’s first radiance.

"Thus, when it became established as a ’mirror’ concept... it hatched the sun’s first radiance."

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