The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 519 Rasputin's Ring

"Victor."

"I'm here."

"You first give this letter to Igor in the province of St. Alexis. Then go to Melvin's house and ask them for a copy of 'Professor Wolf''s detailed information."

"clear."

Standing behind Ivan Lindong, the middle-aged man with frost hair and gray eyes nodded, and took a thick letter from Grand Duke Ivan.

He didn't hesitate too much, and he didn't salute and leave.

He left the Grand Duke's mansion without looking back.

It can be vaguely seen that there is a cold ring locked on his right thumb.

Ivan Lindong sighed, slowly stood up holding the scepter, and walked to the window.

Looking at the back of Victor leaving, he asked softly, "Zoya, when Annan left...what did he bring?"

"He just brought some money."

An adult woman with long dark blue hair gradually emerged from Ivan's side.

On the ring finger of her left hand, there was a cold crystal ring hanging.

Zhuo Ya sighed helplessly: "He only took fifty pounds notes and a small bag of silver coins. I'll say it anyway, he didn't even put on the positioning ring."

"That's how kids grow up."

Ivan said flatly.

Zhuo Ya raised her eyebrows: "You said that. His Highness Annan didn't look like a child before."

"Because he has an adult soul in his body. Don't treat him like a child, he must understand these things. If you want to help, he will come back immediately..."

Grand Duke Ivan took a deep breath, and exhaled a mouthful of frosty frost.

A thin layer of frost formed on the glass in front of him in an instant, and Ivan's face turned pale, and he couldn't help shivering.

Seeing this, Zhuo Ya immediately stepped forward.

She supported the Grand Duke with her right hand, and put her left hand behind Grand Duke Ivan to give him comfort.The crystal ring suddenly lit up, drawing cold air from Ivan's body quickly.

But Ivan was still trembling violently.

He just frowned tightly, didn't say a word, just gasped violently with his mouth closed.The severe pain made him clenched his teeth, and the muscles on his cheeks bulged.

And the purple lines that appeared on the cheeks became deeper and more obvious.

After a while, he said hoarsely, "I'm fine, Zhuo Ya."

"You really..."

Zhuoya complained and let Grand Duke Ivan go.

Her right hand was a little red from the cold, while the ring on her left hand became more and more shiny.

"In short, don't be too harsh on Annan. Unlike Dmitri, he is not a kid who wants to save face...he knows how to escape, but he is not timid.

"Among the superiors, this is a rare talent."

Ivan said slowly: "I trust him more than I trust Dmitri and Maria combined.

"Dmitry is a serious child, but his vision is not long-term enough, his personality is gloomy, but he is easy to entrust his sincerity to others, and he is prone to prejudice against people and things. He can become an excellent minister, but he cannot become a grand duke.

"Maria, like her mother Anya, is a resolute and brave girl. But she loves her relatives more than her relatives and friends, and her love for her relatives and friends is more than her people... She doesn't care about strangers or strangers at all. She chooses to be close or alienated because she likes or dislikes someone. If she succeeds to the throne, she will definitely become a faint or tyrant.

"If anyone can be a better Grand Duke than me, it can only be Annan."

"Because His Highness Annan... has the world in mind?"

Zhuo Ya guessed wildly.

Ivan shook his head.

"Because he's a madman."

The Grand Duke replied: "Fearless madman."

He still remembers how Annan replied when he told him about the secrets of this country and this world.

"——I don't care. I'm what you call 'out of this world', father."

Not long after he got his name, the young Annan replied: "If necessary, let me be the Grand Duke. I can become a god or a saint."

"Think about it, Annan. In this world, the lofty status is not the glory and wealth, not the power... but the melting pot."

"so what?"

At that time, the immature Annan asked sharply: "There must be a salary king to spread the fire, father.

"If it can't be someone else, why can't it be me?
"If it can't be me...why can't I take this fire away."

...Although I don't understand what the Salary King is.

But Ivan vaguely understood Annan's metaphor.

It was from then on that Ivan recognized the essence of Annan.

——Being able to sacrifice everything other than the goal for the sake of the [goal] without any psychological pressure.

In other words, he is the one who can destroy the world in order to save it.

A person who does not move forward relying on the teachings of others, does not yearn for wealth and power, does not believe in benevolence and morality... but a person who simply obtains pleasure from the behavior of "accomplishing the goal".

From then on, Ivan understood.

Annan walked on a dividing line between dusk and dawn.

——Then, instead of forcing him with "fear", it is better to seduce him with "pleasure".

If Annan wants to become a saint, or become a god, he must seal his fear.It is not to make oneself "not afraid", but to prevent this fear and lead his path and his goal to some other direction.

But the other way around.

"I also trust Annan very much."

Ivan said slowly: "Only a lunatic would want to save this riddled world; only a lunatic would save these countries full of crimes... Only a lunatic would try to save stupid and short-sighted mortals.

"Only a lunatic would try to clear all the nightmares in the world; only a lunatic would try to clear the gray fog; only a lunatic would easily kill his past 'self' just to rise higher.

"But it just so happens that Annan is such a lunatic.

"He has a strong desire to 'rise', he is a perfect transcendent; he has a strong desire to 'knowledge', he is a perfect ritual master; he has a strong desire to 'possess', he is a perfect fall.

"A person who can go to the peak of any path...he is not trying to change the world for justice or compassion, but just for his own pleasure."

All his desires are for internal sublimation, not for the mastery of external objects.

This may be the reason why he was selected by the Book of Sky Car...

The Tianche is the car of "rising".

If the Duchy of Winter needs a new king.

Then it can only be Annan.

The Principality of Cold Winter needs Annan to save, and Annan also needs responsibility to save.

——From the very beginning, it has been like this.

"Oh, yes... Your Majesty."

Zhuo Ya seemed to have thought of something, and asked Ivan: "Annan seems to have a ring from the Rasputin family in his hand."

"……what?"

Ivan was stunned for the first time.

He turned around suspiciously: "How did he come into contact with the Rasputin family?"

Zhuo Ya shrugged.

"I guess," she whispered, "I got it at Geraint's."

"Could it be Anya's younger sister..."

Thinking of his dead second wife, Anya Rasputin, the mother of Annan and Maria, Ivan frowned slightly.

He remembered that Annan had used the identity of "Don Juan Geraint" when he was in Noah's Kingdom.And Don Juan's mother was a nobleman from the Duchy of Winter.

——But according to Ivan's knowledge, Don Juan's mother should be from the Melvin family.

But now that I think about it, Anya's sister, Lily Rasputin, suddenly disappeared... It was almost the first two years before the third daughter of the Melvin family married Noah, which can be regarded as a little bit.

"...Go and investigate this matter, Zhuoya."

Ivan tapped the scepter with his fingertips.

He responded in a low voice: "Check, the third daughter of the Melvin family... Euphemia Melvin. Will she have exchanged identities with Lily Rasputin? Confirm whether it is La The ring of the Spouting family. If it is, ask the Rasputin family for a copy of Lily Rasputin's password, and give the password to Annan.

"Annan said he would come back next month. Get these things done by then."

"—Yes, Grand Duke."

The woman with long blue hair answered solemnly.

"and also."

Ivan said in a low voice.

"what?"

Zhuo Ya asked suspiciously: "What did you say?"

"When Annan comes back, remember to secretly give him some extra money. Fifty pounds...I remember he has eighty followers from other worlds. The money allows eighty people to take the subway, and it will be gone after four or five trips."

Ivan said with a straight face: "He may not be embarrassed, but he must not know the charging standard of the underground world. Next time, bring him two hundred...no, three hundred pounds notes.

"Although Lin Dong is poor, he is not so poor that the Grand Duke needs to save money. Do you remember, Zhuo Ya?"

"Well, remember."

Zhuo Ya responded with a smile.

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