The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 157: Doreen and Bella
Although Annan has considered many things.
But when he returned to the Principality of Winter this time, he decided to take the werewolf Doreen with him.
Annan still hasn't figured out why Doreen and Bella look so similar. According to Doreen's identity and background, she was quite far away from Bella's hometown, so they obviously weren't related.
And their ages are completely different.
If Bella were still alive now, she would be around twenty-four years old.
Just sort out the timeline a little bit.
Bela the Betrayer joined the Hand of Winter eight years ago on December 30, 1496, when she was only sixteen years old. And a year and a half after she joined the Hand of Winter...that is, during the gambling game six years ago, she betrayed Dmitri, indirectly causing him to lose his fertility.
After that, Bella turned herself in, served her crime, and reported that Vladimir was about to betray Winter. The Icebreaker Army, which controlled one-third of the military frost beasts, could only respond hastily.
After three years of rebellion--three years ago now, Bella's plan triggered the "Frostbite Disaster" and recruited werewolves to form "Windrunner". By this time, Bella should have been in contact with Professor Wolf.
——But Doreen is only thirteen years old now.
It’s not quite right to say they are mother and daughter... because Doreen does have a biological mother. Her mother couldn't have been only sixteen at the time.
However, there is indeed some relationship between them.
Because it was exactly eight years ago, when Bella entered the Hand of Winter... Doreen met Professor Wolf.
At that time, Doreen's mother went crazy and bit the children of foreigners to death, and was imprisoned together with her father who harbored the murderer. Doreen, who lost her parents, was only five years old.
It was at that time that she met Professor Frederic Wolfheart, who called himself "Nicolas Flamel".
At that time, "Frederick" had been replaced by Trissino Seti. As for why Professor Wolf called himself "Nicolas Flamel" at that time, it is also a question worth noting.
For an idol wizard, a name is a very important thing.
If a coincidence only happens once, it might be a true coincidence.
But they happen to look exactly the same, and they both happen to know Professor Wolf. They also happen to encounter 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 iconic wizard.
So many coincidences are piled up together. If you continue to ignore them, it means that Annan is not sharp enough.
There must be some connection between them. Although I can't find what it is yet.
If Annan puts Doreen in the underground world, maybe Professor Wolf will notice that Annan and Doreen are separated. By then, Doreen may have been assassinated and silenced by other werewolves.
In order to protect this important witness and clues, Annan took Doreen all the way back to Frostwhisper Province.
This time he only brought three random players to open the teleport point in Frost Whisper Province.
They and Annan will not act at the same time. After Annan takes them out of the subway station, they will be separated. After opening the teleportation point, they will return underground.
Annan has already informed the Silver level players in advance - if they are in danger, they will be notified.
Before that, players were still carrying out expansion operations in the underground world as "Hidden Eyes" that were not at all secretive.
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Just like the expansion of the Zerg... Even the wise men would never be able to detect that the players were digging the teleportation array without any evidence.
After all, they didn't touch anything.
They just come to a place, find a hotel, book a room for a month, and then go out to purify the nightmare. Once the amount of purification is sufficient, he will leave directly without seeking wealth or fame.
If they didn't know in advance that this was a "ritual to create a teleportation point," who would have noticed the significance of these weird actions of the players?
And in fact, players are indeed purifying the nightmares of the underground world-those dangerous things that no one wants to touch, but in fact affect their lives.
Even if there is a true wise man who can see into the future and know the purpose of all this. He will also definitely see what Annan and his "hidden eye" have brought to them.
Then he will definitely remain silent.
By then, he would have become Annan's accomplice.
This is also Annan’s conspiracy——
Only the 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 become Annan's friends and choose to acquiesce or support Annan. action.
Through countless film and television game works, Annan has long been wary of the magicians of the prophet school. As long as they think about it, they can mess up something that is very difficult to mess up... 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", then they can know about it now.
So Annan had prepared a strategy to deal with these prophets from the very beginning.
——That’s right.
As long as they ensure that they are on the path of justice, as long as they ensure that their cause is correct and beneficial to everyone and the world in the long run, then at least the neutral prophet will not choose to be hostile to the players... Even if there are a few prophets who want to stop Annan, they will be intercepted by more prophets before they can take action.
It is not that difficult to stop something wrong because everyone is united; but it is thousands of times more difficult to stop something right... because their internal forces are dispersed.
Now Annan has gradually mastered this technology.
Compared with the technology of manipulating people's hearts, this is the technology of manipulating people. It is a more advanced technique...it is the power of "general trend".
This is also the ability that Annan developed in advance in order to inherit the position of Duke of Winter.
He did not hope that he would be an incompetent archduke.
He does not want everything Ivan protects to end here... He does not want to see the people of the Principality of Winter suffer even more under his hands than Ivan does.
If you want to do something, you must do your best.
Annan has acted this way since a long time ago.
Soon, Annan returned to the Grand Duke's Mansion.
Although I am a little worried that if I bring back the werewolf Doreen, Dmitri will "see things and miss people" recalling Bella, which will make his mood worse... But fortunately, Dmitri It's very busy here.
He is not usually in Frostwhisper, so he has not seen Annan and Doreen.
It was slightly beyond Annan's expectations.
Even though he returned to the winter with a werewolf, until he entered the Grand Duke's Mansion, no Hand of Winter appeared to stop him or question Doreen's identity.
He even prepared a set of rhetoric in advance, but in the end it turned out to be useless...
But I think so.
Annan is not Dmitri after all.
He never needs others to worry about what he does.
Annan's status in the family and among the top officials has always been very high - this may be due to Annan's extremely foresighted decision-making and keen strategic vision.
Now that he is about to inherit the position of Grand Duke, those Winter Hands will become his subordinates at any time. Perhaps they were already treating Annan as the new Grand Duke... Naturally, no one would dare to express one-sided opinions in front of him.
If not necessary ~IndoMTL.com~ remain silent - this is also one of the dogmas of the Hand of Winter.
Unlike the Three-Eyed Crow, they cannot spy on the country's secrets from a safe place. Everything must be done in person, and naturally you will see many things that you should not see.
But they are just the "hands" of the Grand Duke.
Hands don’t need to have a mind of their own. That will only add unnecessary burden to the brain or cause errors.
They just have to believe.
The young Hand of Winter would only let himself "not look"; he would force himself to complete his assigned tasks and not care about anything else.
As the use of incapacitation spells becomes more frequent, their hearts will become colder. These mature Hands of Winter usually choose to "remain silent"...because the Archduke may occasionally need their eyes to let them repeat everything they see.
Except for the Duke of Winter himself.
Even the Grand Duke's wife or the Grand Duke's children are still under the silent surveillance of the Hand of Winter.
In other words...
From now on, am I actually the Duke of Winter?
As soon as he opened 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, and then said softly.
He put down his hood, and Doreen who was following him was also very nervous, imitating Annan's actions and put down her hood.
She has not yet recovered from the fact that "Ghirandaio is Annan Winter".
"——The Grand Duke is waiting for you in his room."
Silently, a female voice sounded behind Annan, startling Doreen. Her gray hair stood up instantly, her tail hung low and was tightly clamped 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.