Super Righteous Player
Chapter 968 - 26 A Gentle Succession

Chapter 968: Chapter 26 A Gentle Succession

With the approach of his death, the desires of Hugo, the Tower Master, had also become increasingly thin.

Now, as long as it didn’t particularly displease him, his usual responses were "Indeed, anything’s fine, you’re right," this set of three.

Had it been before, facing the two promising young Wizards Annan brought, Hugo would have definitely paid close attention—having advanced to the silver rank at such a young age, with good character and unique talent, and most crucially, their spellbook barely filled, they were truly like raw gems.

Even if just to get on good terms with them to guide them onto the right path, Hugo would certainly have carefully studied the games they brought over and helped them find old friends to give support.

But now, he had become much more fatigued.

It wasn’t that he had become indifferent... It was more like an epiphany, no longer caring about many trivial matters. It might also be because his soul had broken, leaving a vast and empty hole, which made him feel weak and weary.

Just like after a long illness, interest in many things tends to wane.

Annan had considered whether giving a set of player slots to Hugo could save him—having him personally mentor Salvatore would be better than letting Salvatore figure it out on his own.

But after he mentioned this to Hugo, Hugo just shook his head, rejecting the offer.

He wasn’t injured, nor was he suffering from some disease. Rather, his soul had been consumed to the brink of exhaustion. Never mind that the revival ability of the "Chariot" couldn’t heal wounds of the soul, even if it could—Hugo believed that after the soul was refilled, "it would no longer be his own."

Although Annan found this notion somewhat pretentious, he still respected the wishes of the person in question.

Of course, the more likely reason... was probably that he was simply tired.

Perhaps, not long after he first became a prisoner of the Black Tower, there was a desire to "get out and see." But now, his longing had faded a lot.

He just wanted a long, uninterrupted sleep—at most, to burn himself out completely before that.

Or rather... the act of bestowing all that was left of himself to Salvatore was just an extension of this thought.

—Just like a veteran about to quit, passing all his savings and collection to his junior.

Whether it was games, cards, figurines, belts... Annan had seen it all. And what Hugo was about to AFK from was "this life."

Although he ultimately didn’t completely purify Bernadino’s nightmare, Annan could still see his effort.

Despite neither Hugo nor Isaac saying it, one of the reasons for the birth of "Isaac the Second" was probably to meet the special requirement of that nightmare.

—To have their own Spiritual Body servant.

Neither Annan nor Hugo were Soul Reaping wizards of the Order of Spirit-Bearers’ school or followers of Death’s Throat, and without using rituals or transcendent abilities, they couldn’t even touch a Spiritual Body. The way to control a Spiritual Body servant was to let the Spiritual Body obtain a physical form.

Hugo’s act of formally "gifting" "Isaac the Second" to Annan was most likely because he knew this nightmare required a "Spiritual Body servant" to be unlocked.

Given Hugo’s previous obsession with the "real self," he wouldn’t willingly resurrect Isaac in this way—he simply disdained this kind of "incomplete resurrection."

And "Isaac the Second" himself was acutely aware of his situation too.

Knowing himself to be false, he would be even less inclined to want to prolong his even more deceitful life—if he did request that, Hugo would probably look at him with disappointment and then decisively refuse.

...If Annan wasn’t mistaken, that was probably his issue.

If all went as expected, after Isaac came to his senses, to repay Annan—for the grace of rescuing his sanity from the Order of Spirit-Bearers—he must have volunteered this suggestion himself.

It was the same with Hugo. Annan’s eventual arrival and defeat of the Order of Spirit-Bearers prolonged Hugo’s life by over half a year.

But Hugo was already resolved to die by then, which is why he wanted to use his remaining life to help Annan test out the traps of this nightmare.

It was, after all, the nightmare of an Order of Spirit-Bearers.

Even though he wasn’t as adept with nightmares as the Dream Stealer, hiding shards of his personality within, he was still an Order of Spirit-Bearers.

No one knew if he’d hidden his soul within the nightmare...

But he didn’t expect that he wouldn’t even step through the door.

They both didn’t tell Annan the truth, probably not wanting Annan to feel any psychological pressure over it.

...From this perspective, perhaps Salvatore’s gentleness was also hereditary.

—But how did they end up with such an embarrassment like Nicholas?

"Don’t be too hard on him, he might just be in a bad mood..."

Accompanying Annan into the "elevator," Isaac the Second offered his comfort to Annan with a good temper: "I’ll just go check on your friends. Although I haven’t quite mastered the trends of this era, when it comes to some basic questions and the selection of spells, I’m certainly no worse than Mr. Hugo.

"After all, times evolve, but classics are forever."

"...Speaking of which, Mr. Isaac."

Annan looked up, politely asking Mr. Isaac whose movements clinked and clanked: "What is this moving chamber called? How much weight can it transport?"

This was Annan’s first time entering the Wizard’s Tower.

He was quite interested in this device.

From his own experience, even compared to regular elevators, the sensation of dizziness was considerably less, and it was completely silent. Most mysteriously, Annan didn’t see any cables—it was like a capsule floating in a transparent glass tube, somewhat like a syringe.

He wondered about its load-bearing capacity.

And he thought its interior could probably be made quite luxurious... Perhaps after the winter thawed, a high-end hotel could be constructed in Frost Speech Province to serve the tourism industry? Or maybe they could create a mountain-viewing elevator, which would likely attract a lot of tourists from elsewhere...

It seemed that the Heath Tower of Black had quite a few nice things.

Annan wondered if Kitezia could make this.

"This? We didn’t have this in our time; this is a transformative invention that Mr. Hugo came up with during his school days. He named it the ’lift.’"

Isaac explained gently.

In his school days?

Annan was momentarily taken aback.

Advancing to the bronze rank would mean about graduation, right? Did this mean that Hugo came up with this before becoming a Transcendent?

In that case, Lord Hugo was indeed far smarter than his own foolish Salvatore...

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