The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 171: Ingrid’s Ceremony

"Solonik and Selicia - from the very beginning, they were two people."

Annan turned back and looked at Selicia: "Do you remember? About Nicholas II.

"He was just an afterimage in a nightmare. But he thought he was the legendary alchemist Nicholas.

"You just retained the memory of Solonik - you are completely different from him in terms of personality and personal abilities. You think this is because you are too inferior and therefore changed after getting this body. What does it look like?"

The corner of Annan's mouth raised slightly: "So, have you ever considered... that this is your character?"

"...could it be that I am Ingrid?"

Celicia's pupils shook violently.

After hearing Annan's analysis, she now began to seriously doubt whether she was the Ingrid who had forgotten her memory.

Annan shook his head: "No, you are indeed yourself.

“Because this body is indeed a ‘created doll’. It is impossible for Ingrid to become a doll.

"But the question is...who made you?"

As the saying goes... a country is easy to change, but a person's nature is hard to change.

Think about it carefully, who gave Solonik his current identity of "Celicia"?

——It is none other than "Professor Wolf" Frederick Wolfheart.

His "shell" comes from the Melvin family, and the inner part is part of the golden-level idol wizard "Professor Gray" - "Bone Healer" plus "Professor Wolf" can be synthesized into "Professor Gray" professor".

At that time, "Ingrid" and Frederick were both studying with Professor Gray.

They were classmates and had an ambiguous teenage relationship.

Among the people of the opposite **** whom "Ingrid" once took a fancy to and planned to use as ritual materials, this name once appeared: Frederick Melvin.

From here, we can actually deduce that Professor Gray already knew Ingrid.

She is not the girl with long dark blue hair who studied with Professor Gray.

It is the real Ingrid who is the "Lord of the Tower of Thousand Faces" and the "Pope of Miss Good Luck"!

However, when Ingrid, who had sealed her own memory, came to "study", Professor Gray said nothing. It is impossible for him not to understand this matter... The "Feaster", the **** of understanding and resonance, also banned his memory from traveling in the world.

Looking back, Professor Gray still reads poetry in front of Ingrid every day.

The recitation is "Praise to the Name of the Sky Car".

It's like hoping the other person will remember something.

In other words... Professor Gray has been standing with Ingrid from the very beginning!

The body of Selicia was made by "Professor Wolf" himself.

"...So, whose appearance does this belong to?"

Annan replied affirmatively: "There is no doubt that this appearance comes from 'Ingrid'!"

Hearing this, Arthur's pupils shrank: "Speaking of which...I once knew a son of the tower. Her appearance was very similar to the captain..."

"It's your childhood sweetheart, right."

Annan asked calmly.

Arthur paused and nodded: "It can be considered."

"That means..."

Ofhis expression is a little complicated.

That seemed to be a little pity, but also like luck. There seemed to be some sadness between his eyebrows.

And Selicia hugged herself tightly, shivering and lowering her head as if afraid of the cold.

The girl with long pink and purple hair trembled slightly.

——She herself also realized the problem.

But the truth must also be told.

So Annan told the truth:

"Celicia, you are not actually Solonik. You have been a girl from the beginning... In other words, you used 'Solonik' as a sacrifice to create 'Ingrid' The idol of virtue'."

This is the original definition of "Idol School".

The so-called...clay idols and stone statues.

Artificially endow certain symbols with specific meanings, hoping that they can play some special role through the "law of similarity" and "law of contact".

The most typical one is the "idol" used to pray for rain.

The most popular spell in ancient China was the spell to pray for rain. Generally speaking, they will first make a statue of the Dragon King out of clay or wood, and then hold a complex prayer ceremony for rain. But if they fail to pray for rain too many times, they will angrily whip, scold, put on chains, and even tear down the "idol" of the Dragon King. If it doesn't work, just change it.

There are similar emergency measures in Japan. If the rain-making spell fails too many times, angry villagers will drag out the local deity enshrined in the shrine and throw it into the rice fields.

Italians in Europe also tried to use "icons" of saints to pray for rain. After failure, the icons were thrown into pools or expelled from the parishes they guarded. The congregation of Porto Licata also stripped saints of their clothes, put them in shackles and chains, and even slapped them during droughts to threaten "it must rain immediately."

This method can be found all over the world - in any transition where stone sculpture technology has emerged but is still ignorant, there is a similar tradition.

Of course these "idols" do not have the power to pray for rain. But people impose this concept on them - and treat them as living creatures to worship, control or threaten.

It is precisely because they are living creatures that they are afraid, greedy, and... afraid of others.

Give "identity" to the concept of nothingness and the lifeless clay statues.

Make it "self-regarding as a human being".

This is the basis of "Idol Magic".

"I understand!"

Euphemia, who also belongs to a family of idol school, was the first to fully understand what Annan meant: "Although the captain thinks he is 'Solonik', the characters we all see are the same as that hero. Grid is exactly the same as 'Celicia'. Then the captain actually exists as the idol of 'Ingrid'.

"She thinks she is a 'Soronike', just like the poison hidden in the ice cube. As the ice cube gradually melts, the poison is gradually released into the cup...and as she gradually denies her 'Soronike' Ronick's past, she will get closer to Ingrid.

"Actually, at the moment Selicia was born, Solonik was actually killed by Professor Wolf. All that was left behind was that he had all the memories of Solonik and mistakenly believed that he had been replaced. 'Celicia'!

"If Celicia is simply given a personality, she will still think that she is just a 'doll'. She must be made to think that she is a living thing - a living person, in order to form a relationship with Ingrid' Strong idol relationship'!"

That is to say.

Before Selicia denied her life as a "Solonik", then she was a "Solonik". Even if the gods come in person, they can only find out the "Solonik" ingredients from the depths of her soul.

But she denied her past.

Completely rejecting his greatest wish to pursue Vladimir, the Defying Winter.

The moment when I thought that "Soronik's existence has no meaning" and thought that "it would be best for me never to be Solonik"...

The ice cubes outside the poison melted.

She truly became Celicia, Ingrid’s substitute!

"That is to say," Annan said calmly, "after Selicia saw the Winter Defender and was abandoned by him...or maybe some time before that."

The Winterbreaker is Solonik's teacher after all.

It is different from Annan’s initial belief that “he arrogantly thought he knew Solonik”.

He did know Solonik.

Because of this, he was the first person to notice something was wrong.

He realized that Annan was trapped in Ingrid's conspiracy - this was a conspiracy that Annan could not crack.

Because Annan is a "good guy."

Because of the death of the Winter Defying Man, Annan is even less likely to kill Selicia—nor the people Selicia values. Because even Annan himself did not consider Selicia to be a "Solonik".

"——No matter what, I refuse to help you.

"——I am a wicked person. But there is nothing wrong with it. I happily accept all the consequences, but I will never repent.

"——Evil people must behave like evil people until the end."

What exactly is the "help" he's talking about?

It has nothing to do with the Book of Skycars. Because no matter what, as long as he dies, Annan can get the fragments of his body.

The help he mentioned at that time was "Ingrid's conspiracy".

"—When I realized ~IndoMTL.com~ that he had become Selicia. I gave up on killing her and left."

Of course this cannot be "compassion".

It has nothing to do with him whether it is Solonik or Selicia.

The reason why he gave up killing Selicia was precisely because if left alone - she would be enough to take away everything from Annan!

Because he is a villain.

Vladimir was the first and only one to notice this conspiracy.

He deliberately left the final trap that could turn everything in Annan into nothingness.

“Start from the time when the anti-winter believes that ‘the real Solonik is dead’.

"——Any one of you, as long as you use the element of 'love' to advance to the gold level, it means that Ingrid has completed her ritual."