The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 1212 Annan's deterrent power
The news of Grand Duke Annan's reappearance, together with the information that he had been successfully promoted, quickly spread throughout the entire Frost Whisper Province.

The transcendent existence of the golden rank has a natural disaster-like suppression in any country in the world.

Because through conventional means, the power of a transcendent who does not have the golden rank is completely unable to fight against the golden rank—the absolute suppression of the power of the elements is reflected in all aspects.

Bronze rank beats silver rank, mortals defeat bronze ranks, and even mortals defeat silver ranks... For example, Dove and the shaping wizard named Jude when he first entered the game.

However, silver beats gold differently.

Throughout history--

Even if the dimension of time is pushed forward to the second era, there are only a handful of silver ranks like Annan who can leapfrog and defeat gold.They could be called "legends" in their own right.

Their deeds will be praised from generation to generation, and the Golden Order who was defeated by them will also be famous with them.

And usually...these people would have been great people.[-]% of those who did not die young became existences above the golden rank.

Either it is the darling of a righteous god-the kind that is very likely to become the pope, they can defeat weaker gold through the power of magic, such as Noah's silver knight commander Alexander; The owner of the chapter, the god of the future... For example, the Marquis Iris back then, and Annan today are all like this.

And Salvatore is a special case of special cases.

So far, he is the only one who can rub the Philosopher's Stone with his hands at the silver level... Apart from the Philosopher's Stone, there is nothing that can make people enter gold in advance.After all, this is an existence of the same level as the power of the elements, or even a higher personality.

If you want to fight against the golden rank, you must send out the rest of the golden rank; otherwise, with the power of the whole country, at best you can only drive them out.

In a situation where gods, especially righteous gods, cannot directly attack mortals, the golden rank is the pinnacle of arbitrariness in this world.

And if this transcendent existence originally possesses special rights and status, making it impossible for this country to unite and resist him...or even love him instead, then this is a perfect incomprehension.

Can only wait for his life to end.

Until then, he is what he says.

Those nobles who were originally vacillating immediately turned to Annan and Dmitri without hesitation.On the first day Annan returned to Cold Winter, he had already declined the "celebration banquet" and "meeting request" of more than a dozen nobles, big and small—of course, he still accepted his wishes and gifts.

After all, they don't have any important matters... and it is impossible to have any important matters.

As we all know, it is Dmitry who is actually doing things in the Principality of Winter.The Grand Duke of Winter is only responsible for providing opinions on the general direction and serving as Dmitry's "solid backing".

These people are just here to flatter and show their loyalty.

If Annan didn't even accept the gift, they must be thinking wildly - is the Grand Duke trying to kill himself?Is it too late for me to go to the Grand Duke now?
In order to prevent them from having a wave of fear and jumping over the wall...Annan still asked the hands of winter who entertained the guests to accept their gifts and letters.

After they asked each other like this, they found that although Annan did not accept their meeting invitation...but Grand Duke Annan did not accept anyone's meeting invitation.That way they can rest easy.

But Annan didn't even look at the gifts that those people brought up.

He directly asked the players who served in the Hand of Winter to divide up the gifts themselves—take whatever they wanted.

If it was the traditional Hand of Winter, it would be called unselfish in the face of this kind of thing, and it would be easy to drive these peaceful people into the hostile camp... This kind of thing can only make people who have not been cursed by the Hand of Winter Deal with players who tie and deprive some of their emotions.

Of course, Annan actually has a list.

Or... small books.

Those who have caused trouble for Dmitry before, or who did some shady things when Annan left the Principality of Winter, Annan will directly send the real Hand of Winter to them, and directly talk to these Hands of Winter Explain, "Don't accept anything, don't promise anything."

Winter's Hand is only loyal to Grand Duke Annan, and Annan's orders are consistent.

Without Annan's permission, they would send people away without hesitation, and would not accept any gifts they saw.

Of course, the move itself is meaningless.

Those families will not immediately change their past mistakes and become great benevolent people just because Annan rejected the gift.In fact, this is to appease those available talents who are still honest and responsible... At the same time, these players who may be soft-eared and "unprofessional" are not allowed to battle with those professional lobbyists.

To prevent them from listening to it and feel that what the other person said is quite reasonable and pitiful... A soft heart took the gift.

This is also entirely possible.

But just two days later, noble officials from all over the winter, through Annan's attitude, roughly understood their next fate.

Some were decent enough.

They either committed suicide by committing suicide, and adopted the rest of the children under the names of distant relatives to change their surnames; Report from the Frost Beast Troops——

All in all, it is to disintegrate your own surname by yourself.

At all costs, even shameless, just asking for one life... I just hope that the child can survive and the blood can continue.

For such decent gentlemen, Annan is also willing to show his "kindness".Nor does it directly forgive their sins, just as if their family no longer exists.

In other words, it is to keep a case record but not to pursue it.

If their descendants continue to do evil, it is not impossible to turn over the old accounts and postpone the investigation of the old cases to 40 or [-] years later; if they can become the pillars of the country, they can pretend that this does not exist.

If it were a low-magic fantasy world, Annan might have to worry about a "30 years in the east of the river and 30 years in the west of the river", or the concierge's son trying his best to get revenge...

But the old grandmother has already woken up, and Annan is about to be promoted to a god-the confession of these people becomes acceptable.

Not completely besieging people is also to prevent dogs from jumping over the wall in a hurry.

Although Annan wasn't afraid of them—it didn't mean that ordinary people in Lindong weren't afraid.If they really want to retaliate against society, they don't know how many people will suffer because of it.

But there are indeed contestants who are dissatisfied... trying to resist in the face of their upcoming destiny.He neither admits his mistakes nor admits his weakness, but secretly accumulates strength.

—Like the Melvin family, for example.

Their nominal patriarch was detained by Annan, but they acted as if there was no such person, and never came to ask for it.

After all, the Melvin family is essentially an inheritance family with the "god of the world" at its core.The "gods on earth" passed down from generation to generation are their backbone and true opinion leaders.

This patriarch is just a puppet pushed out.

"Those people in your family just don't want to end decently."

Annan sighed at the patriarch Melvin who was sweating profusely and had lost a lot of weight in two days.

He did not torture the patriarch or even imprison him.Annan will eat whatever he eats.

Just letting him watch what Annan did made the patriarch more and more nervous, fearful, and in awe of Annan.

This is completely different from the attitude of being unafraid and even contemptuous when facing Dmitry.

"Do you understand what I mean?"

After lunch, Annan wiped his hands.

He asked calmly, "Earl Melvin?"

"...Are you going to find Gryanznuha?"

"That's for later. Of course, it's not impossible to do it together."

Annan showed a gentle smile: "They are not decent - I will help them to be decent."

After all, Annan picked up the three sirens that were placed on the table, symbolizing the power of the Duke of Winter.

"Jacob."

annan road.

Behind him, a thin and short man emerged from the light.

That was the "magic art" bestowed on him by Annan.

"I am here, Your Majesty."

"Open the door," Annan said briskly, "Send Chief Melvin home. I'll go too."

"Do you need me to follow?"

"That's okay," Annan smiled, "It's not that I can't protect you, but it still hurts to die once.

"After the matter is over, I will fly back by myself."

Annan said pointedly.

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