The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 279: Gryaznuha (2 in 1)

Gryaznuha.

The first time Annan heard this name was when he first entered "Nightmare: Gallery".

He had seen some banned books in Amos's study.

In "Belief in These Gods Is Dangerous", Annan saw the name Glyaznuha Rindong for the first time.

In this book, Gryaznuha made the Bone Lord an ancient **** from the Third Age. His original words were "new false gods that appeared in the Third Age" - in fact, if the entire history of the Giant Country is included, it almost did start from the Third Age.

However, as an individual, Mr. Bones only lived for a few hundred years.

This disguise is obviously to create a sense of security for readers that "he has lived for so long, someone else must have used this ritual, and if something happened, he would have become an evil **** long ago."

After that, Gryaznuha described in this book that "the rituals of the Skeleton Lord are all deceptive, and each time you perform a ritual, you will pay a higher price next time", but on the other hand he wrote " How to choose the "highest profit" strategy every time you perform a ritual, and how to cut off the ritual after it takes effect.

This gives people the illusion that although the Bone Master's ritual is very dangerous, if I follow the content of this book and strictly follow the guide, then I can get the benefits for free without paying the price.

But of course this is impossible.

If there is such a good thing, it is definitely not something that newcomers who have just come into contact with mysterious knowledge can understand; to take a step back, if the content in this book is correct, but Mr. Skeleton is not a fool——

This kind of printed "bestseller" has long been spread all over the world. It is not a handwritten original. When you see that it is a printed version or even has a publishing house, you should know that many people have tried and tried to plunder the wool.

He is not a unique genius. After seeing the tempting descriptions in this book, wouldn't everyone do it? Is he the only one who is special?

And if so many people successfully harvested the wool, wouldn't the Skeleton Lord modify the conditions of the ceremony?

——This Skeleton Man is not the Wool Man, and his power is not unlimited. How could a mortal who could become a **** be an idiot who was endlessly deceived? Where did he get so much wool to harvest?

But of course these deluded ritual masters would not think this way.

In a sense, on the one hand, this book is spreading the ritual of contacting the Skeleton Lord, and on the other hand, it is also doing preliminary screening.

Most of the people who come into contact with Mr. Skeleton because of the content in this book are arrogant and brainless people who think "I am the only one special in the world."

They either never thought that other people could also obtain this knowledge; or they thought that they were different from those people, and if it were them, they would definitely not be deceived.

Therefore, the above knowledge is completely correct as far as the text content is concerned. Otherwise, it is impossible for him to be approved and published by a regular publishing house - which means that the publishing house is responsible for the text content.

In fact, there are indeed similar rituals and magical techniques that can directly determine whether others are lying and whether they have truly mastered a certain ability.

Since this book can be published, it means that its author has passed the review. Then he does possess similar knowledge, and it is true, at least "in writing."

But as to whether there is any hidden part...

That is inevitable.

According to the rules of occult books, books that can be published publicly must not completely tell all the occult knowledge... The specific bottom line is that after reading this book, at least new wild ritualists cannot be cultivated.

This means that Gryaznuha has already processed this knowledge. Newcomers will not be able to use the content in this book at all.

Then, it is actually not the "original canon" but the "pseudocanon".

If Amos was aware of this, he would definitely not hold the ceremony so rashly.

However, its name as a "forbidden book" deceived him.

This is obviously because more than ten years after its publication, someone realized that the book was full of lies. In order to prevent others from being deceived, I banned this book.

As a result, Amos confirmed that since it was banned, the content written in it must be good!

Therefore, Amos did not share the contents of this book with anyone.

He did not ask any professionals...whether they were wizards or ritual masters for their opinions and suggestions before performing the ceremony, just for fear that others would **** the book.

After all, Amos himself is a mortal. This was found from the relics of his wife, the dark wizard.

Although here, Amos's stupidity and greed cannot be washed away.

He also paid the price for everything he did.

However, the blame cannot be placed on the victim just because of the stupidity of the deceiver. The culprit of all this is, after all, the leader of the scam...that is, Gryaznuha.

The one who was "removed" was the winter of a certain generation. Being able to have your surname removed is already a serious crime in the cold winter... not only legally, but also morally.

But Gryaznuha still named himself "Winter", which means that he believed that he was not wrong.

In terms of specific generation, he can probably be regarded as Annan's grandfather - he is of the same generation as Ivan's father.

Gryaznuha has been living outside for so many years. He should have given birth to some children... These children all have the blood curse of the "Heart of Winter" and can theoretically pick up the Three Sirens.

Early during the Northern Alliance rebellion, Annan had actually suspected once... Could it be that the reason those guys were causing trouble was not to seize power from Dmitri, but to defect to the one who also had the power? The guy who claimed the Principality of Winter?

After all, because of the old grandmother, it is unrealistic for someone other than "Lin Dong" to serve as the Grand Duke. When the old grandmother wakes up, the usurper will pay the price immediately.

But if Grand Duke Coldong is still surnamed Coldong, then this is just a family matter - they just defected to one of the Coldong families, rather than rebelling and seizing power. This means that even if they are liquidated, they can only use family law, not national law.

From another perspective...

According to the news from Euphemia, Annan learned that the Melvin family relied on Silu to continuously draw power from Lord Skeleton.

When Lord Skeleton disappeared from this world, Annan thought for a while - would the Melvin family lose any power because of this?

But if we say that the backstage of the Melvin family has been Gryaznuha from the very beginning...

That means that they are not enemies, but allies. The process in which they stole Duke Bones’ power was not unknown to Duke Bones——

"...That's it."

Annan suddenly recalled the first time he met Lord Skeleton.

After he discovered that Annan was a Frostborn, his tone became friendly. He also called Annan "Annan·Shuangyu" and said that "sooner or later it will be Shuangyu".

This is indeed true - when Annan dies, he will transform from a Winter Folk to a Frost Whisperer.

But if we say that this good impression is not because of his good relationship with the old grandmother, and this title is not based on the perspective of the deceased, but because the Pope of the Skeleton Lord has been Gryaznuha Winter from the beginning. , or... what about Gryaznuha Frostwhisper?

[My deal with my old grandmother led me to follow the young dragon here]

【He asked me to protect the Frostwhisperers】

The contents of this transaction have been approved by Sir Silver. And Sir Silver said that this was something he "just heard a few days ago."

Then the problem comes.

The old grandmother knows many gods, why would she entrust Annan's safety to a false god?

Why is it Mr. Bones?

This "following the young dragon to this place" obviously refers to letting the Skeleton Lord go from the Frozen Water Port to Fort Ross - to protect Annan from the rotten man.

But Annan remembers clearly that there was no snow in Frozen Water Port at that time. In other words, the old grandmother who is half asleep and half awake should not be able to contact the Bone Man who has no direct relationship with her.

How did Mr. Bones learn about this?

"I finally understand..."

All these clues were connected together, and Annan finally understood everything.

Obviously, the old grandmother’s order was not passed directly to Duke Skeleton, but to Gryaznuha!

Gryaznuha dared to claim the surname of Lindong, which was obviously approved by his grandmother - the "elders" who gave orders to the Lindong family were not country squires from a small village. It's not a problem that he can solve by avoiding the cold winter.

But the serious god, the ancestor of the dragon!

This shows that he must have committed some sin that is unforgivable from the perspective of the Coldong family and the Coldong Principality, but is not a big deal to the old grandmother. So much so that now, someone has formed a "rebel army" in his name.

Whether it is the Northland nobles or Melvin... they have obviously defected to Gryaznuha!

In other words, Gryaznuha himself has the idea and ability to become the Duke of Winter. There is no fool in the Melvin family, and they can be recognized by them; it shows that the possibility of this plan is not weak.

——Gryaznuha himself must be found.

Anan had this thought in his mind.

Only by finding Gryaznuha himself can everything that Winter faces be truly ended - allowing Winter to usher in the spring that has been missing for decades.

Then the problem at hand has changed from a "little thing" where the nobles were stupid and tried to improve their status, to a big problem of "the former prince seizing the throne".

"I thought that after Mr. Bones died, his influence on the world would completely disappear..."

Annan lowered his eyes.

Bright light shone from his eyes.

"I didn't expect that I ignored such important news."

He walked up to Earl Melvin, reached out and patted his forehead, while speaking softly: "Relax, I don't want to kill you here... You should accept the justice of the law in front of the people.

"Before that, let me see who Gryaznuha is and what he wants to do."

His noble avatar quietly emerged behind Annan.

At Annan's feet, a brilliant magic circle formed, trapping Annan and Earl Melvin together.

The light wings representing "understanding" shined and were raised high, and a large amount of information began to flow through the bottom of Annan's pupils——

The secret information held by Count Melvin and hidden in his mind was quickly "understood" by Annan. Just like a computer with default firewall settings, it is generally powerless when facing the world's top hackers.

It is not the use of soul-stealing spells to control Count Melvin's consciousness, steal or rewrite his memories.

It’s very simple...

It's like holding a credit card and swiping it on the POS machine - the "information" inside is read out.

Now Annan is the POS machine.

And the knowledge in Earl Melvin's head did not even set a "payment password".

After about five seconds of reading, Annan put down his hand. The light behind him dimmed, but Earl Melvin still looked at Annan in fear - he probably understood something, but had no idea what was going on.

If you want to rummage through the vast memories of someone of this age and are not sure which year they were stored, even a master of memory would have to search for an hour or two.

And reading and writing too roughly and quickly may burn out the subject's brain. Just like a hard disk, there is an upper limit on read and write speeds.

However, the knowledge that Annan "understood" did not even pass through Earl Melvin's mind. He didn't even know what knowledge Annan had seen. This memory had already been copied by Annan.

——This is the power of elemental power.

Those who have no elements and no truth are just fragile mortals after all. In the face of the power of elements, any spells and rituals below the gold level are invalid.

Even if the gap between real mortals and silver-level extraordinary beings is so big... But for gold, they are still mortals who have not yet taken the first step.

After a complete search of Earl Melvin's memory, Annan finally understood everything that had happened over the years.

His judgment is correct——

The Northland Alliance, the Melvin family, and some local officials have all defected to Gryaznuha.

His real name is indeed not Gryaznuha Rindong.

It's Gryaznuha Frostwhisper.

As a contemporary of Grandpa Annan, Winter has now died and turned into a Frost Whispering Dragon.

Anyone would think it is the spokesperson of the old grandmother.

But why did it not enter the realm of the old grandmother, but still drift in reality?

The reason is also very simple.

——Because it is not a frost scale dragon.

But an undead dragon.

Transformed by the Skeleton King voluntarily... there is only one undead dragon in this world.

The reason why he is recognized by his grandmother is also very simple.

This is different from Annan’s initial judgment——

Gryaznuha did not defect to the worm.

Instead, we plan to use another method to fight against worms.

If worms irreversibly pollute and penetrate this world. Then it can collect the souls in this world and enter the dream world as a carrier of this world. And in this process, he had to become the apostle of Lord Bones... so he helped Lord Bones to speed up the acquisition of other people's souls.

Because Gryaznuha is already dead and cannot dream.

Therefore, he can travel directly through the dream world and find the next world suitable for survival - as long as his body can withstand the pressure of the dream world.

After arriving safely, Gryaznuha can shape the body of the soul through the divine magic of the Skeleton Lord. Re-develop this civilization in the form of the undead.

"——To put it simply, he is a defeatist counselor?"

Annan whispered: "What does he think he is? A wall-facer?"

This was indeed a feasible plan more than a hundred years ago.

He needs to conduct experiments on undead transformation. And this process requires a lot of... people.

That’s why he was the only one removed from the list.

But from the perspective of the old grandmother, he was indeed another possibility for the survival of world civilization.

However, Gryaznuha's plan, and even his existence, completely lost their meaning after the birth of Annan, the new Nintendo. ~IndoMTL.com~ Because of the existence of overhead cranes, worms may not be irresistible.

So, Gryaznuha, who was close to madness, did not accept such a fate. He is stubbornly preparing for the end of the world, as if the crane is bound to fail, as if the crane does not exist.

Therefore, in his plan... it is logical that he needs to obtain the Principality of Winter and become the Grand Duke of Winter.

He must have enough power to turn the people of a country into undead.

Just like the Skeleton King of the past.

——With the Lord of Bones dead and the God of Betrayal translocating, the God of Bones is still vacant.

"As expected of the Pope of Midas."

Annan sighed:

"...This foolishness is exactly the same as he was back then."