The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 245: Ashes

"You want to kill me?"

Hearing what Annan said, Professor Gray was not angry, but laughed out loud: "Do you want to swing a knife at the shadow, or punch at the memories of the past?

"Or, I have said so much, but you still don't understand...my essence?"

"Of course I know."

Annan said calmly: "You are the old hatred that was put aside by the gray craftsman, and a memory suspended in the long river of time. Compared to the current world we live in, you are just a projection hanging on the wall."

"You don't know very well."

Professor Gray said with a smile: "So, are you planning to destroy the projection on this wall?"

"What I want to destroy is, of course, the essence of your existence in [the past]."

Annan replied.

Hearing this statement, the smile on Professor Gray's face faded a lot.

"If you can do it," he raised his hand, "then you might as well... give it a try."

As Professor Gray said this, he lightly snapped his fingers.

The crisp sound of snapping fingers echoed in the air, and the whole world instantly became quiet.

With him as the center, a gray field suddenly spread to the surroundings. It's like a color photo or screen suddenly turning into black and white.

Except for Annan and Neuser, the others seemed to be frozen inside, motionless.

——Their time was stopped.

Although Annan and Neuser are still able to move - pure white light shines around Annan, wrapping his whole body in it like a flexible shell.

And the bones in Neusel's body shine with a dark red light... The light even penetrates the skin, and can be directly observed with the naked eye without any equipment.

However, although Neuser was not directly stagnated by this gray field, his actions were still very difficult. It was like moving through thick syrup, and the whole person seemed to be entangled.

Newser raised his head with great force, and the blood vessels in his neck and forehead burst out.

Even so, he could just barely see a vague human figure floating behind Professor Gray.

——This is probably something that no one has ever seen before...a noble avatar belonging to Professor Gray.

"That's..."

Nieussel was stunned.

The posture of that noble avatar is so distorted that it even makes people feel "painful".

It looks like a vaguely human male.

But it doesn’t look blurry because the sublime fake is not pure enough—it looks like the photo has been rubbed repeatedly until the face is blurred, or like the portrait has been soaked in water and the ink gradually smeared.

If you look closely, you can only vaguely see a "young man" composed of many broken and reconstructed geometric bodies in this blur, just like Picasso's "Head of Fernandez".

Just based on intuition and structure, one can roughly deduce that it should be a young man.

He has gray hair similar to Professor Gray, but is not as old as Professor Gray.

The "young man"'s pupils are also gray, but they are not the deep and dull dark gray of Professor Gray... but are gentle and soft, with gradient colors like gray agate.

The "boy" has thin shoulders and even thinner arms, and he lowers his head as if he is shy. Its left arm nervously grasped the shoulder of the gray professor in front of it, while its outstretched right arm, which was also broken and blurry, was holding a hanging pocket watch.

Only the silver-gray pocket watch was clear from all over its body. Even in the gray realm of silence, there was a loud clicking sound.

That is the only sound in this silent world.

The pocket watch held up by the "boy" initially showed the position of "00:00:15".

Annan, who was not aware of the danger, just stood aside and watched everything calmly; while Neusser struggled to walk towards Professor Gray... but in this sticky field like glue, Fifteen seconds is indeed too short.

Nieussel just struggled to take two steps forward, and time completely ran out.

As time goes back, the second hand rotates counterclockwise one by one... and when all the hands return to zero.

The four players, completely saturated with gray, turned into ashes silently.

The stagnant time around him returned to normal in an instant, and the silent atmosphere was also broken.

Neusel couldn't hold back his strength for a moment, so he just roared and bumped into him - but Professor Gray just smiled and stretched out his right hand forward, signaling "Stop" as if directing traffic, and the endless gray was there A barrier formed in front of him.

Niusel's ferocious shoulder collision, in turn, made his own body unable to withstand the pressure and almost shattered.

His muscles deformed and disintegrated under the tremendous force, his bones made an acidic crunching sound, and purple-red traces like spider webs burst out under his skin - they were leached blood.

He immediately groaned and was instantly knocked back.

While flying over Annan, he was deprived of excess kinetic energy and finally stabilized his body. Otherwise, looking at the momentum, I'm afraid it could hit the wall and fly back.

Annan could see clearly that it was not a simple defense... nor was it the ability to "offset the damage and repay it twice as much".

Nieussel was just running forward with all his strength - when the speed of time suddenly resumed and the car could not be stopped, it turned into a shoulder collision. He didn't use much strength in the first place.

Being able to severely injure Neuser, who was holding the Holy Skeleton, in an instant was definitely not something that could be achieved by doubling the power of the counterattack.

If Annan guessed correctly...

This should be related to Neusel's previous actions in that gray area.

His every move became extremely sticky and difficult... These powers should have been stored by Professor Gray through some means, and turned into Professor Gray's own temporarily stored power.

Finally, when Neuser was about to attack Professor Gray, they all bounced back. It was precisely with Neusel's power that Neusel himself was severely injured in an instant.

Although I don’t know what the principle is yet, it roughly behaves like this ability.

In other words, should we stop immediately when we are covered by the gray area?

Sounds a bit like a one-two-three wooden man...

The four players who had been turned into ashes quietly before were resurrected again as if they were traveling back in time, gathered together by countless firefly-like points of light. ~IndoMTL.com~ Holy shit, what happened? ”

"...It's strange, have I lost my memory?"

"Why did I suddenly die suddenly just by snapping my fingers? Are you Thanos?"

From the complaints from the players, Annan immediately realized that the players who were bound by that gray field did not retain any memory at all.

In other words, this should be the ability of the time system——

Annan paused.

"...It's [memory], right."

He said softly: "You turned them into dust and returned Neusel's power that was 'taken away from history' to yourself. This is the power of the field of [memory].

"It sounds nice to say that you want to destroy the truth of memories and take revenge on the graysmith... but aren't you still using the graysmith's ability?"

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