Super Righteous Player
Chapter 910 - 446

Chapter 910: 446

Annan’s strength was three times that of an ordinary dragon, which was precisely why he could so easily defeat the replicated Nicholas.

Neither of them had high physical strength attributes when in human form.

Even if Annan could stack his will attribute on top of his strength attribute, it would likely be a drop in the bucket compared to the natural strength of a dragon.

However, this tripled power allowed Annan to catch the Demon Dragon Nicholas off guard and immediately restrain him, leaving no chance for escape.

—Until he used the Element of Victory to adjust his strength to be even stronger than Annan’s.

But Annan would not give him the chance to break free.

The sealed form of "The Third Siren" had besides the "triple experience" and "triple damage," actually had an active effect:

[Blood of Madness: You will fall into madness periodically, with random negative emotions being extreme until you summon "The White Lady"; but if you do not do so, you’ll be able to permanently control the wills of three Transcendents (can only be used three times, and only on Transcendents; each use permanently overwrites the mind of a Transcendent of Gold rank or below, with a one-third chance of turning them into a fallen being of the same rank)]

It was at that moment.

Annan activated "Blood of Madness" for the first time!

The highest stream of light from his crown of light suddenly became resplendent.

And in the eyes of the Demon Dragon Nicholas, that light began to swell enormously.

It overshadowed the other two streams of light and even surpassed the world itself.

The moment Nicholas saw that beam of light, his body had already become immobile, frozen in place.

The light started to expand upward and downward—like a light slash that opens the heavens and the earth, it split his field of vision into left and right halves.

And the light was still expanding.

The whole world around plunged into darkness, but that light became rapidly larger—as if standing in a dark world, swiftly approaching a glowing door.

As the view zoomed in at the closest, that slim beam of light had already expanded to fill Nicholas’s entire vision, dyeing his thoughts into pure white.

It was like when the Dream Stealer, Denton, had used the element of "Dream" to enter deep into Bernadino’s consciousness.

Annan felt his consciousness detaching from his body... and rushed into the demon’s eyes, which had been turned pure white and had completely stopped moving.

This was also Annan’s first time using the abilities of "Blood of Madness."

In a pitch-black world, Annan swiftly navigated.

Numerous orbs of light passed by him—those were the messy, fragmented thoughts of the superficial layer of consciousness.

And in the darkness, Annan had transformed into a fledgling dragon made of pure light, effortlessly flying past sturdy crystal walls.

Those were "constraints" that the Demon Dragon Nicholas had set for himself.

They were not Curse Bindings, but rather human restraints.

It could also be called "worldview" itself. In the Soul Snatching School, it was academically referred to as "The Wall of Common Sense."

Breaking The Wall of Common Sense meant breaking a certain worldview.

And when thinking, one must also try to overcome one’s own Wall of Common Sense, otherwise logical thinking could be stopped by The Wall of Common Sense... and thus unable to reach the surface to become thought fragments that one’s rational consciousness can perceive.

Crossing numerous Walls of Common Sense, one can see the place of "The Origin of the Heart" at the beginning.

That is, the event that formed today’s worldview, that formed the core personality.

It was not a continuous, complete event.

It was a non-logical amalgamation of many events.

Within The Wall of Common Sense, in the depths of the subconscious sea, "logic" doesn’t exist. It’s more absurd than dreams... just a combination of myriad disjointed memories.

It might even be an event that changed his personality that he himself was unaware of, or had forgotten, and was faithfully recorded here.

Annan vaguely saw...

Nicholas’s deepest mental illusion was an old-fashioned stone Wizard’s Tower.

—That was the Jade Tower.

Many memories rapidly flowed into Annan’s mind—

Although it was called the Jade Tower, it wasn’t entirely carved out of jade.

Instead, on each of the thirteen floors of the Wizard’s Tower, there was a jade slab inscribed with alchemical symbols that only a wizard of the Jade Tower could decipher.

Inside were stored the souls of thirteen Sages that had been solidified onto the slabs before the Elves entered the Living Desert.

They had a collective name.

That was... Hermes.

The slab itself was crafted by the mysterious lady.

By touching the slab with consciousness, one could receive instruction from the ancient Sages. Whether it was A’zoth, the Hermes Faction’s Philosopher’s Stone, or the methods for making ancient artifacts like Hermes Faction’s Toxic Dust, all originated from these ancient Sages.

The Elves were inspired to create the "Specimen Archive" by the Jade Tower.

Under the gratuitous instruction of these thirteen mentors, anyone seeking knowledge could access the knowledge they desired. The knowledge of the thirteen mentors nearly covered all truths in the world... They preserved all knowledge from the First Era to the present.

Yes, all of it.

As the "Tower of Knowledge," the Jade Record could invoke books from any Wizard’s Tower.

This even allowed the thirteen ancient Sages to continually learn.