Super Righteous Player
Chapter 950 - 8 The Premonition of Entrusting a Child

Chapter 950: Chapter 8 The Premonition of Entrusting a Child

Alfonso’s case proved that this theory was indeed valid.

However, Alfonso’s good temper seemed somewhat excessive... or perhaps the Grey Professor had been too conservative with the dosage of medication. Even after being injected with an adequate dose of the "Courage Extract," concurrent with the Bone of Fearlessness, he still maintained the demeanor of an affable, pliable man.

...Considering this, Selicia was indeed a decent choice.

Ever since the Winter Reverser abandoned her, she had been excessively passionate towards Annan, like a deserted dog, almost to the point of submissiveness, for fear of being abandoned again.

And no matter what issue she faced, she would harbor a great deal of self-doubt. Even the maids of the ducal palace (who were of course Hands of Winter) carried themselves with more composure and confidence than her.

From this former Gold-ranked Transcendent, one could no longer discern the confident shadow of the "Ship in Stone Captain" from before.

But the premise was that she would be able to advance to the Gold rank.

Alfonso’s lesson had already taught Annan that it was not safe for a body at the silver rank to forcibly equip a saintly bone. Only a stigmatized soul at the Gold rank could control a saintly bone.

Of course, the best-case scenario would be for her to awaken suddenly from her downfall, to be recognized by the Bone of Fearlessness without needing an injection of Courage Extract.

Otherwise, in another seven or eight years, if Selicia still couldn’t advance to the Gold rank, her body would be overwhelmed by the power of the saintly bones, just like Alfonso’s is now.

However, Annan would not arbitrarily make this decision for Selicia.

—He informed Selicia of all the related causes and effects and all the possible consequences that might result. As for whether she was willing to bear the side effects that could arise in seven or eight years, and a future where there might be no one to succeed her... that was for Selicia to decide.

If she could obtain recognition, that would naturally be a good thing.

A saint—although potentially mentally unstable—would be added directly to Annan’s subordinates. Before his grandmother fully awoke, Selicia could directly stabilize the situation in Winter.

But if she did not want to go through with this, that was fine too.

When the time came, Annan could simply turn to a player.

He was certain that he could find someone.

Taking a certain level of risk to directly acquire the highest class and unique class advancement... if this were a precedent in old online games, it would have been standard protagonist-level treatment.

But regardless, Annan still needed to make a journey to the underground.

Not for any other reason—

Primarily, to cause trouble for the Grey Professor.

Had it not been for Annan’s previous favor for the Sporogenesis Mill, which increased Naifertali’s favorability, and considering that if they had given the saintly bones to the Winter Reverser it could have brought a lot of trouble to the Duchy of Winter...

The Grey Professor would not even have mentioned this matter to Annan.

Because nominally, he was publicly recruiting a suitable candidate.

But according to Alfonso, the Bone of Fearlessness had already been sold to Vladimir.

What Vladimir used to exchange for the saintly bones was the Blood of the World, extracted by using his Worm power to destroy a certain world!

But when Annan was cleaning up the battlefield previously, he hadn’t seen this item with Vladimir.

If what Vladimir used was not the type of selfish personal space safe which would "fall into the void upon my death," then there was only one possibility.

That is, he had already handed over the Blood of the World as a "deposit" to the Grey Professor.

This was entirely possible.

The Grey Professor and the Wolf Professor were essentially the same person.

And it was clear that the Wolf Professor had more than one interaction with Vladimir.

Using the Wolf Professor as a hub for communication, Vladimir learned of Grey Professor’s needs and brought him the Blood of the World—this was also entirely plausible.

And to think of it the other way around...

As a pure Disability Wizard, even if he advanced to the Gold rank,

Where did Vladimir learn the whereabouts of the "Black Mammoni"?

He definitely didn’t guess it on his own.

Annan had Chiron’s guidance to predict the time and place when the "treasure would emerge" in advance.

So, who else could perform this level of prophecy?

Annan recalled the Grey Professor from the "Twin Nightmare" of years past.

—In the nightmare, the one who recognized the true nature of his celestial carriage.

Apart from the gods, perhaps only Professor Gray had the strength to foresee such intelligence.

And given that he already had such important information on hand, why didn’t he go for it himself?

Unless—

He had known all along that "Tune the Clear" possessed the control of the Black Azurite—Vladimir was bound to fail against Annan.

In front of Annan, obtaining the Black Azurite would mean nothing. It would actually be tantamount to delivering equipment directly to Annan...

He had calculated everything in advance.

The Chariot couldn’t be captured by Prophet Spells, so his prediction was purely based on intelligence and logic.

—That was indeed very powerful.

Therefore, Annan intended to meet Professor Gray in person.

To see just how strong he actually was.

In the blink of an eye, it was already June.

Nothing had happened in the past month.

Kafney was focused on stabilizing Noah internally, while Annan was busy setting up the Winter Mining Company, and the players were searching for nightmares to level up all around the world—according to Annan’s peering behind the scenes, the first batch of players to reach full level would soon appear.

However, as the scale of players increased, the amount of public experience in the Common Experience Pool also became considerable.

Things were different from when the server first "opened."

Annan didn’t need to think of activities for players to keep them busy—they had identity cards and could travel anywhere via the subway. The exploration period of the world wasn’t close to finishing yet.

Even without main quests for nearly two months, there was no sense of neglect.

On the contrary, the nightmares underground had already been cleared by the players by a large margin.

Now many of the denizens of the underground had come to recognize the "Eyes of Secrecy" as a force.

They harbored no ulterior motives, merely clearing nightmares.

While this seemed a bit neurotic to the wise, they were quite welcome to come and clean up.

The wise were intelligent people. And smart people tended to be suspicious.

They had discussed in private—and eventually decided to at least return the favor to the scribes of the "Eyes of Secrecy" organization, albeit not much.

To prevent their act of purifying nightmares from becoming part of some unclear grand ritual...

In this world, it was always best to be cautious.

And due to the previous "driving" incident, which inadvertently left Annan behind—though it wasn’t his fault—Jacob, in order to "make amends and earn merit," volunteered to organize an expedition to the limitless glaciers of the North Lands to search for clues to the Heart of Justice for Annan.

Annan gave a token attempt at persuading him otherwise but, seeing his determination, was happy to let him proceed.

—After all, he indeed had to go there himself.

Because only Jacob could escape the limitless glaciers.

He just stuffed more teleportation materials into his bag, telling him to warp everyone back if things looked grim.

Now with Alfonso as an example, Annan was no longer confident about inheriting the sanctified remains at the silver rank. He began to doubt whether the conjecture that "one must inherit the sanctified remains before advancing to gold," deduced from old lady Bofis, was correct.

So, Annan was in no rush.

After all, since the end of March, he had begun to gradually extract experience from the Common Experience Pool. This allowed him to slowly level up without grinding experience.

The experience from the past month and a half had gradually raised his level to near the pinnacle of the silver rank.

Although it was currently presumed that the experience required to level up at the gold rank would be despairingly high... at least the extra experience produced this year would be enough to get him to the full level of silver rank.

It was said that after reaching full level at the silver rank, one would have to wait quite a while before advancing to gold.

Anyway, Annan had already figured out the correct usage of the Third Siren, and the Six-faced Mirror was already assembled, so he was not particularly anxious...

But while Annan was comfortably developing at home,

He suddenly received a message.

It was a secret report from Dragon Well Tea... saying that Tower Master Hugo had something to discuss with Annan and that it was best for him to personally visit Heath Tower of Black. And specifically, "do not inform Salvatore."

Annan immediately felt an ominous air.

... An air that carried a somewhat familiar sense of entrusting a mission.

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