The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 614 Doreen and Bella

Although Annan has considered many things.

But when he returned to the Dukedom of Winter this time, he still decided to take the werewolf Doreen with him.

Annan still hasn't figured out why Doreen and Bella look so similar.According to the identity and background explained by Doreen, she and Bella's hometown are still quite far away, and it is obvious that she will not be any relatives.

And their ages don't match at all.

Bella would be around 24 if she were alive now.

A little tidying up the timeline.

Bella the Betrayer joined the Hand of Winter eight years ago, on December 1496, 12, when she was only 30 years old.And a year and a half after she joined the Hand of Winter...that is, in the gambling game six years ago, she betrayed Dmitri, indirectly causing Dmitri to lose his fertility.

After that, Bella turned herself in, committed crimes, and reported that Vladimir was about to betray Winter.The Icebreaker Army, which controls one-third of the military frost beasts, can only fight hastily.

After three years of rebellion—that is, three years ago, Bella's strategy triggered the "Frostbite Disaster" and recruited werewolves to form the "Windrunner".By this time, Bella should have contacted Professor Wolf.

— But Doreen is only thirteen now.

Even mother and daughter are not quite right... because Doreen does have a biological mother.Her mother couldn't have been 16 at the time either.

However, there is indeed a relationship between them.

Because exactly eight years ago, when Bella entered the Hand of Winter... Doreen met Professor Wolf.

At that time, Doreen's mother went berserk and killed a foreigner's child, and was imprisoned together with her father who shielded the murderer.And Doreen, who lost her parents, was only five years old.

It was at that time that she met the wolf professor who called himself "Nicolas LeMay" - Frederick Wolfheart.

The "Frederick" at that time had been replaced internally by Tricino Seti.As for why Professor Wolf called himself "Nicolas Flamel" at that time, it is also a doubtful point worth noting.

For idol wizards, names are very important.

If the coincidence happened only once, it might be a true coincidence.

But they happen to look exactly the same, and they both happen to know Professor Wolf, and they happen to experience a sudden change in their lives in the same year, completely changing the trajectory of their lives.And Doreen's father also happens to be an idol wizard.

With so many coincidences piled up together, if you forcefully ignore them, then Annan is not sensitive enough.

There must be some connection between them.Although I can't find out what it is yet.

If Annan put Doreen in the underground world, maybe Professor Wolf would notice that Annan and Doreen were separated.At that time, Doreen may be assassinated by other werewolves.

In order to protect this important witness and clue, Annan took Doreen all the way back to Frostwhisper Province.

This time, he only brought three players with him to open the teleportation point in Frost Whisper Province.

They and Annan will not act at the same time.After Annan took them out of the subway station, they would separate.After opening the teleportation point, they will return to the ground.

Annan has already notified the silver-rank players in advance—if they are in danger, they will be notified.

Before that, the players were still carrying out a not-so-secret expansion operation in the underground world as the "Hidden Eye".

Let me insert a teleportation array here.jpg
Just like the expansion of the Zerg...even wise men, it is absolutely impossible to detect that the players are digging the teleportation array without any evidence.

After all, they didn't touch anything.

They just come to a place, find a hotel and book a room for a month, and then go out to cleanse the nightmare.When the amount of purification is sufficient, they will leave directly without seeking money or fame.

If it wasn't known in advance that this itself is a "ritual to create a teleportation point", who would have noticed the meaning of these weird actions of the players?

And in fact, the players are indeed purifying the nightmare of the underground world-those dangerous things that no one wants to touch, but actually affect their lives.

Even if there is a truly wise man who can see into the future and know the purpose of all this.He will also see what Annan and his "Secret Eye" brought to them.

Then he too would be silent.

At that time, he also became Annan's accomplice.

This is also Annan's conspiracy——

Only prophets and wizards who really care about the underground world can care about and know the purpose of the players' actions; but they can also see the results of these actions, so they will instead become Annan's friends and choose to acquiesce or support Annan's actions.

Through countless film and television game works, Annan has long been wary of those magic sticks of the prophetic school.They can mess up something that is difficult to mess up if they want to... As Arthur Burning Fang said before, no secret can be hidden in front of the Prophet.

As long as they will know about it "later", they can learn about it now.

So Annan prepared strategies to deal with these prophets from the very beginning.

- Exactly.

Just make sure that you are walking on the path of justice, as long as you make sure that their cause is correct and beneficial to everyone and the world in the long run, then at least the neutral prophets will not choose to be hostile to the players... Even if there are a few The prophets who want to stop Annan will be intercepted by more prophets before they act.

It is not so difficult to stop a wrong thing, because the will of the people is united; but it is thousands of times more difficult to stop a right thing... because their internal forces are scattered.

Now Annan has gradually mastered this technique.

This is the technique of manipulating people compared to the technique of manipulating people's hearts.It is a more advanced technique... It is the power of "general trend".

This is also the ability Annan trained in advance to inherit the position of Grand Duke Cold Winter.

He didn't want to be an incompetent Grand Duke.

He doesn't want everything that Ivan guards to end here... He doesn't want to see the people of Winter Duchy suffering more than Ivan under his hands.

If you want to do something, you must do it best.

From a long time ago, Annan has acted like this.

Soon, Annan returned to the Grand Duke's Mansion.

Although I was a little worried, if I brought Doreen the werewolf back, would Dmitri recall Bella in a "seeing things and think about people" and make his mood worse... But fortunately Dmitri is very busy .

He was not usually in Frostwhisper Province, so he did not see Annan and Doreen.

A little bit beyond Annan's expectations.

Even though he returned to Cold Winter with a werewolf until he entered the Grand Duke's Mansion, the Hand of Winter never stopped him or questioned Doreen's identity.

He even prepared a set of rhetoric in advance, but it turned out to be useless in the end...

But come to think of it.

Annan was not Dmitry after all.

He has always done things without worrying about others.

Annan's status at home and in the upper echelon of power has always been very high - this may be due to Zhou Mu Annan's extremely foresighted decision-making and keen strategic vision.

Now that he is about to inherit the position of Grand Duke, those hands of winter will become his subordinates at any time.Perhaps they are already treating Annan as the new Grand Duke... Naturally, no one would dare to express one-sided opinions in front of him.

Remain silent if not necessary—this is one of the dogmas of the Winter's Hand.

Unlike the Three-Eyed Crow, they cannot be in a safe place to spy on the secrets of the country.You have to do everything yourself, and naturally you will see many things that you shouldn't see.

But they are just the "hands" of the Grand Duke.

Hands don't need to have a mind of their own.That just puts unnecessary load on the brain, or makes mistakes.

They just have to believe.

The young Winter's Hand will only let himself "not look"; force himself to complete the task of his duty, and don't care about anything else.

And as the use of incapacitating spells becomes more frequent, their hearts will become colder and colder.These mature Hands of Winter usually choose to "keep silent"... because the Grand Duke may occasionally need their eyes to let them recount what they saw.

Except for Duke Winter himself.

Even the grand duke's wife or the grand duke's children must be under the silent surveillance of the Hand of Winter.

That is to say...

Am I effectively the Duke of Winter from now on?

Just pushing open the door of the Grand Duke's Mansion, Annan was in a daze for a moment.

"Come on, Doreen."

He was silent for a moment, then said softly.

He put down his hood, and Doreen who was following him was also very nervous, imitating Annan's movements and putting down his hood.

She hadn't recovered from the fact that "Ghirlandaio is Annan Rinwinter".

"—The Grand Duke is waiting for you in his room."

Silently, a female voice sounded behind Annan, startling Doreen.Her gray hair stood up in an instant, her tail drooped low and was tightly sandwiched between her legs, and she even trembled a little when she walked.

But Annan just nodded silently.

In the Grand Duke's Mansion, he walked forward without looking back.

　update completed!Let’s make a change today, or I’ll have to stay up all night again...

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