The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 280: Annan’s deterrence

The news of Grand Duke Annan's reappearance, along with the information that he had been successfully promoted, quickly spread throughout Frost Whisper Province.

The transcendent existence of the golden level has the suppressive power of a natural disaster in any country in the world.

Because through conventional means, those who do not have the power of a gold-level transcendent are completely unable to fight against the gold-level - the absolute suppression of the power of elements is reflected in all aspects.

It is common for Bronze to defeat Silver, for mortals to defeat Bronze, and even for mortals to defeat Silver... Take Dove when he first entered the game, and the shape-shaping wizard named Jude.

But silver beats gold differently.

Throughout history——

Even if the dimension of time is pushed forward to the second era, there are only a handful of silver-level people like Annan who can leapfrog and defeat gold. They can be called "legends" in their own right.

Their deeds will be praised for generations to come, and the Golden Order they defeated will also be famous with them.

And usually... these people are going to be great people. One hundred percent of those who did not die young became existences above the gold level.

Either they are the favorites of a certain righteous **** - the kind who are very likely to become the pope. They can defeat the weaker gold through the power of divine magic, such as Captain Alexander, the silver knight of Noah; or They are the holders of the Fragment of Truth, the gods of the future... such as Marquis Iris back then and Annan today.

And Salvatore is a special case among special cases.

So far, he is the only one who can rub the Philosopher's Stone at the Silver level... Apart from the Philosopher's Stone, there is nothing that can allow people to enter gold in advance. After all, this is an existence of the same level as the power of elements, or even a higher level.

If you want to fight against the Golden Order, you must send out the rest of the Golden Order; otherwise, with the power of the whole country, the most you can do is expel them.

In a situation where gods, especially righteous gods, cannot take direct action against mortals, the golden level is the pinnacle of arbitrary behavior in this world.

And if this transcendent existence has special rights and status, and the country cannot unite to resist him... and even loves him instead, then this is a perfect unsolvable problem.

We can only wait until the end of his life.

Until then, whatever he says is what he says.

The originally hesitant nobles immediately turned to Annan and Dmitri without hesitation. On Annan's first day back in the cold winter, he had already declined the "celebration banquets" and "meeting requests" from more than a dozen nobles, big and small - of course, he still accepted the thoughts and gifts.

After all, they don't have anything important... and they can't possibly have anything important.

As we all know, it is Demetri who is actually doing the work in the Principality of Winter. The Archduke of Winter is only responsible for providing opinions on the general direction and serving as Dmitri's "solid backing".

These people are just here to flatter you and show their loyalty.

If Annan doesn't even accept the gift, they must be thinking wildly - does the Grand Duke want to kill him? Is it too late for me to defect to the Grand Duke now?

In order to prevent them from getting scared and jumping over the wall... Annan still asked the Winter Hands who entertained the guests to collect their gifts and letters.

After they asked each other, they found that although Annan did not accept their meeting invitation... Grand Duke Annan did not accept any meeting invitation. This way they can feel at ease.

However, Annan never even looked at the gifts sent by those people.

He directly asked the players who served in the Hand of Winter to divide the gifts among themselves - just take whatever you want.

If it were the traditional Hand of Winter, it would be called a selfless person when faced with this kind of thing, and it would be easy to drive these relatively peaceful people into the hostile camp... This kind of thing can only make people who are not affected by the Hand of Winter Players deal with the hand curse that deprives them of some of their emotions.

Of course, Annan actually has a list.

In other words... a small notebook.

Those who have caused trouble for Dmitri before, or who did some shameful things when Annan left the Principality of Winter, Annan will directly send the real Hand of Winter to them, and directly contact these people. The Hand of Winter explains, "Don't accept anything, don't agree to anything."

The Hand of Winter is only loyal to Grand Duke Annan, and Annan’s orders are true to his word.

Without Annan's permission, they would send people away without hesitation and would not accept any gifts they saw.

Of course, the move itself makes no sense.

Those families will not immediately change their past and become good people just because Annan rejected the gift. In fact, this is to appease those available talents who are relatively honest and responsible... At the same time, these players who may be soft-hearted and "not professional enough" are not allowed to fight with those professional lobbyists.

In order to prevent them from listening, they feel that what the other person said is quite reasonable and pitiful... and they accept the gift with a soft heart.

This is entirely possible.

But just two days later, noble officials from various places in the winter roughly understood their next fate through Annan's attitude.

Some people are decent.

They either committed suicide by all adult members and adopted the remaining children to distant relatives and changed their surnames; or while dispersing the family wealth, they allowed the family head and elders to go to their grandmother's church to accept the sin; or The whole family went directly to the Frost Beast Army to report——

In short, it is to disintegrate one's own surname on one's own.

At any cost, even shamelessly, just for one life... I just hope that the child can survive and the bloodline can be continued.

For these more respectable gentlemen, Annan is also willing to show his "mercy". Nor does he directly forgive their sins, but just treat their family as if it no longer exists.

In other words, a case record is kept but no further investigation is carried out.

If their descendants still do evil in the future, it is not impossible to overturn the old scores and postpone the investigation to twenty or forty years later; if they can become the pillars of the country, they can also pretend that this does not exist .

If it were a low-magic fantasy world, Annan might have to worry about issues such as "Thirty years in the east of Hedong and thirty years in Hexi", or the concierge's son going through hardships to seek revenge...

But the old grandmother has woken up, and Annan is about to be promoted to a righteous **** - these people's confession becomes acceptable.

Not completely surrounding people is also to prevent dogs from jumping over the wall.

Although Annan is not afraid of them - it does not mean that ordinary people in winter are not afraid. If they really want to take revenge on society, they don't know how many people will suffer as a result.

But there are indeed players who are dissatisfied... trying to resist in the face of their upcoming fate. Neither admitting mistakes nor admitting cowardice, but secretly accumulating strength.

——For example, the Melvin family.

Their nominal patriarch was detained by Annan, but they acted as if he no longer existed and never came to ask for him.

After all, the Melvin family is essentially an inherited family with the "God on Earth" as its core. The "god on earth" passed down from generation to generation is their backbone and true leader of opinions.

This patriarch is just a puppet.

"Those people in your family just don't want to end with dignity."

Annan sighed at the Melvin patriarch who was sweating profusely and had lost a lot of weight in two days.

He did not torture the patriarch, nor even imprison him. Give Annan whatever he eats.

Just having him watch everything Annan did made the patriarch become more and more nervous, fearful, and in awe of Annan.

This is completely different from the fearless and even contemptuous attitude when facing Dmitri.

"Do you understand what I mean?"

After lunch, Annan wiped his hands.

He asked calmly: "Earl Melvin?"

"...Do you want to find Gryaznuha?"

"That will happen later. Of course, it's not that we can't do it together."

Annan showed a gentle smile: "They are not decent - I will help them be decent."

After that~IndoMTL.com~ Annan picked up the three sirens that were placed on the table, symbolizing the power of the Duke of Winter.

"Jacob."

Annam Road.

Behind him, a thin and short man emerged from the light.

That was the "divine skill" granted to him by Annan.

"I am here, Your Majesty."

"Open the door," Annan said briskly, "send Chief Melvin home. I'll go with him."

"Do you need me to follow?"

"That's okay," Annan smiled, "It's not that I can't protect you, but it's still painful to die once.

"When the matter is settled, I will fly back by myself."

Annan said pointedly.