The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 1213 [Melvin] (two in one)

Annan clearly felt that Sumarokov Melvin's body was trembling slightly.

"What are you afraid of, Lord Melvin?"

Annan turned his head and looked at Sumarokov from the corner of his eye, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "I will make a special trip to take you home next time. I will never lie about this kind of thing.

"Or is it your own home that you're afraid of?"

"No, no, no, how could it be..."

Sumarokov smiled.

But his rebuttal was so pale and weak.

Annan smiled lightly: "It's reasonable for you to be afraid. After all, you are just a puppet pushed out.

"With the style of your family, just knowing the secrets about the chrysalis and living bones will be cursed for secrecy. And your status is much more important than that kind of consumables - you can get in touch High-level officials from other families have more reasonable access to bishops and even the pope.

"If you don't put a curse on you, how can 【God of the World】 be at ease?"

"how do you know--"

Sumarokov's pupils trembled and he exclaimed.

He suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, and his eyes showed more intense fear and panic: "What did you see in my mind?"

"Earlier than that."

Annan sneered: "You don't think that I really left the entire Duchy of Winter for no reason, and let you trouble Dmitri, right?

"Why did I leave at that moment? Why did I come back at this moment? You guys really can't guess what I'm thinking... Or is it clear in your heart, but you still can't help it?"

First, they disappeared for a period of time for no reason—more than two months ago, another wave of Winter's Hand was mobilized to the United Kingdom.After returning from the Hand of Winter, various forces continued to send people to the United Kingdom to inquire, and finally got the information that Grand Duke Annan had entered the underground city.

Since then, there has been no news.

Although at the beginning, the rebels of Ling Dong always suspected that this was a fishing trap...

But as the minutes passed, they became more and more restless:
Because if Annan really cut off contact with Lin Dong, and he can't come back in a short time, then this is the best time to support Gryanznuha's supremacy!
Once Annan returns, if they want to launch a coup d'etat, they must confront the Hand of Winter head-on.

There is no need for the old grandmother to be afraid... because Gryanznuha itself is also recognized as "winter" by the old grandmother.The only problem is that they don't have the Three Sirens in their hands.

This scepter symbolizes the supreme power of the Duchy of Winter.

Not because of its shape, but because of its status as a "great cursed object".

This means imitation is also invalid.

If Annan keeps the Three Sirens in the Principality of Winter, they will start a coup without hesitation-they do have a "Winter" who can hold the Three Sirens.

but.

Annan didn't know if he had thought of this a long time ago, or he just wanted to carry a great curse with him. When he left Lin Dong, he actually took this treasure of protecting the country abroad.

——He never thought that it might be lost abroad?

As a result, because of Annan's move, they began to suspect whether Annan was fishing.

They were entangled in this, so they never did it.

But the longer the time dragged on, the more panicked they became.

Finally, they couldn't bear it anymore and decided to make a move.

And just at this moment, Annan came back.

"I didn't get any useful new information from your mind, except that 'Gryanznuha' was actually alive. Because I already knew everything... from another Melvin mind. That is A girl named Euphemia who abandoned her own name."

Annan said with a smile: "I knew from the very beginning that you have disobedience. Even from the last time I visited Noah—before I dealt with the Northern Alliance, I have been eyeing your family.

"Or……"

He reached out and grabbed Earl Melvin's shoulder: "Are you still lucky?"

The chain of light emerged from his cuff, binding Earl Melvin firmly in the blink of an eye.This chain looks very strong and loose, just like walking a dog on a leash.

Very polite.

"It turned out to be so..."

Was it a conspiracy from the very beginning?
The fact that there was a traitor who betrayed Melvin's name in his family made Sumarokov Melvin feel cold all over his body.

Sumarokov did know that rebel named Euphemia.

In terms of seniority...that was his niece.

"That traitor!"

Sumarokov gritted his teeth: "She didn't make her into a chrysalis back then, she didn't know how to be grateful—"

"I prefer to call it, abandoning darkness and turning to light."

Annan sighed: "Of course, objectively speaking, she is not a born saint. Nor is she a good person in the strict sense... She is just an ordinary person, a normal person who wants to live instead of being reduced to a prop." people.

"If she had been chosen to be an elder, and not a victim of marriage, a chrysalis of death, or the material of living bones—if she hadn't suffered daily fear that she would die, perhaps she would not have left Melvin Perhaps the family will not choose this so-called "abandoning the dark and turning to the bright." Instead, they will enjoy the power they have.

"But there's no such 'if.'"

"People are forced out. The turbid light can drive people into the dark, and the filth of darkness can also force people back into the sun."

Annan said quietly: "This kind of rebellion can be born in the family, which shows how unbearable this darkness is."

"Your Majesty, the ceremony is ready."

At this moment, Jacob's voice sounded: "The teleportation location has been locked."

"Direct transmission."

Annan ordered.

"Yes."

Jacob agreed.

As he removed the curtain covering the mirror, the same candles were reflected in many mirrors of different sizes surrounding the newly remodeled "Teleportation Hall" of the Grand Duke's Mansion.

Those were thirteen candles of different sizes and thicknesses.

They are respectively attached to thirteen copper rings, forming thirteen concentric rings.And when the ring is turned to different scales, it is like a complicated compass, anchoring the specific position.

Countless candles are reflected in countless mirrors.

Under the reflection of many mirrors, they turned into an ocean of light.

The figures of Annan and Sumarokov Melvin gradually became blurred in the sea of ​​light.

This is also the first time Annan experienced the teleportation soberly - he did not pass out during the teleportation process, but remained awake throughout the process.

"It turns out that the principle of teleportation is like this..."

Annan thought to himself: "In this way, I seem to be able to build my own teleportation ceremony... No, Tianche originally had a teleportation ceremony. Then I might be able to optimize this ceremony..."

And because of his sobriety, before landing, Annan noticed that there were many people at the place they teleported.They are all waiting quietly.

—Waiting for me here long ago?

They couldn't track the Crane with divination spells.

That should be the Earl Melvin's body engraved with some kind of curse pattern that Annan didn't even notice... the distance that can locate him.

So Annan did not hesitate.

At the moment of appearance, he summoned his sublime false body——

as predicted.

In Melvin's family residence, the three floors inside and outside were full of people.

But here's a wonder.

That is, apart from old men and women in their 70s and [-]s, there are young people in their early teens and early twenties.Except for Earl Melvin, there seemed to be few young or middle-aged people here.

And all "Melvin" have colorful hair - black, brown, red, white, pink, green...

Their hairstyles also look quite "fashionable", to the extent that they don't have the slightest sense of disobedience in the Night City next door.Obviously premature art for this world.

All of them looked at Annan and Earl Melvin blankly and silently.

An overly quiet atmosphere reminds people of dolls and dolls in toy stores after night falls.

Just by their existence, the surrounding air is filled with an abnormal and weird atmosphere.

And Earl Melvin's face had turned pale.

Trembling, the titular patriarch shouted, "Listen up, everyone! This has been a trap from the very beginning—"

"You are no longer pure."

An elder in front of Earl Melvin sighed.

Earl Melvin lost all his voice in an instant like a duck whose throat was choked.

"You have lost your divinity."

And the other elder behind the earl sighed in exactly the same tone as the one before him.

His words made the earl look back in panic, but at this moment a third voice sounded: "You have fear."

A girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old spoke, and made a voice like the sound of heaven: "You are starting to fear death."

And a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy said seriously: "You should leave this world."

"You should leave."

"You should leave."

"You should leave."

One by one, everyone repeated this.

Emotions are neither exuberant nor sad.Not angry, not afraid.

No smiles or scowles, just like toys on a shelf.

Earl Melvin's face became paler and paler.

He didn't say a word, his throat stretched out and he let out a gurgling sound, his fingertips were trembling like Parkinson's.

But as he repeated the sentence after sentence, the fear in him gradually subsided.The whole person was quite abnormal, and became quiet again.Not even the fingertips twitched anymore—not a single twitch.

It is no different from those of the same race around who are like puppets.

"I should leave."

He agreed blankly.

The next moment, Earl Melvin suddenly reached out his hand.

Both hands start from the stomach and stroke down.Like unzipping his clothes, he easily cut open his abdomen—together with the clothes he was wearing.

Earl Melvin's fingertips were covered with blood.

Earl Melvin, who was bound by the chain of light, opened his arms wide like a scarecrow, and said solemnly and calmly: "And I have opened it."

"And you are open."

"And you are open."

"And you are open."

The other Melvins clapped their hands as they repeated the reading.

There was no joy, no relief, no hatred, no joy on their faces, they just applauded calmly.It's as boring as completing daily tasks.

Blood flowed from Earl Melvin's body, and he was still stubborn enough not to lose his life—even if it was just a wizard, a silver-ranked Transcendent would not die so easily.

But Earl Melvin didn't try to heal himself...not even the scarecrow-like arms didn't waver in the slightest.If the blood was allowed to flow like this, sooner or later he would die here due to excessive blood loss.

Annan on the side did not stop his action.

Nor was he frightened by the weird behavior of the Melvin family.

He just watched all this calmly from the sidelines.

He wasn't sure at first, but now he is finally sure.

——He has glimpsed the essence of the Melvin family.

"So it is."

Annan took a deep breath: "The Melvin family is good at the law of resemblance. Create godchildren, make them far away from the world, and resemble gods; let the best godchildren inherit the profession of gods in the world...

"In the idol school, the 'Law of Contamination' makes the fates of idol wizards approach and attract each other. Weak idol wizards will unconsciously move closer to powerful idol wizards, and the fate of both of them will be disturbed by each other .

"—This is the secret of the 'Law of Infection', which is well known to wizards.

"But the law of similarity is different. Because there are not so many idol wizards who are good at the law of similarity, and they are mainly concentrated in the Melvin family, which makes the knowledge of the law of similarity rare.

"But by chance, I have read the book "Law of Similarity and Predictive Dreams". It mentioned that two idol wizards who are similar enough can also connect their fates together.

"The so-called precognitive dream is that they are so similar that the dreams can communicate with each other. The experiences and memories of one of them flow into the dream of the other. And because of their similarity, what this person experiences, the other person may Will experience it sooner or later.

"Their spirituality is linked together. Just like two twins, if they are kept together, they will have a better understanding. If the relationship is good enough, they may even speak at the same time, or understand each other's thoughts without speaking. Whatever you want, one of them is hurt and the other can feel it.

"But if they live in a different environment, then that spiritual connection is terminated. Because they are no longer similar -- the difference in life terminates the similarity.

"At that time, I thought... If idol wizards with similar laws can link spirituality together. Then what about the Melvin family?
"I had doubts like that at the time. But those Melvins who left Winter were so normal... This made my doubts groundless.

"Now I have finally come to the residence of the Melvin family and witnessed all this."

Annan sighed: "Can you tell me about it?

"—Your Excellency [God of the World]?"

"of course."

At this moment, an elderly Melvin next to Annan replied, "I'd be more than happy."

"Your old man... is the god in the world?"

Annan raised his eyebrows.

"Do not."

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl replied: "I can also be a god on earth."

"We are all gods on earth."

"We are all gods on earth."

One after another sounded.

"Then, what about the Gold Rank?"

Annan asked: "Isn't 'God of the World' a profession?"

"Human world—how can there be a god?"

One Melvin retorted.

"We are thirsty to drink the blood of the Son of God, and have our own divinity."

Another Melvin replied.

"We can all be gods if need be."

"But it existed in any man before the god of men appeared."

"Why have you never seen God on Earth?"

"Why can't the Melvins remember the appearance of the man who inherited the 'God on Earth'?"

"Because it's not always there."

"Because it's not always remembered."

"Because it's our shared fantasy."

"It only exists here."

"At the right moment."

"You shouldn't have come."

Now that this is the case, the truth is clear.

The so-called "god among humans"...does not refer to a particular individual.

It is a spirit, a will.

An invisible earth-bound god that has been around this land for an unknown amount of time.It is the "common wish" produced by the Melvin family who has completed the synchronization of the whole family.

The process of "inheriting a profession" is to let the tribe share the "blood of the Son of God".

He/she can then provide new powers to the "god among men".

That is not the heir, but the victim.

In this way, it is understandable why the Melvin family needs so many dead chrysalis and living skeletons...

It's not about letting the elders drive the Doll Gundam.

Rather, it is to provide the "god on earth" with the "best body" used when it appears.

This "god among men"—

——Its name is [Melvin].

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