Although Annan had released a main mission called [Wheel of Fortune: Initiation] to players a few months ago, asking them to form a light team and arrive at the bone raising ground before July 1st.
...But this main mission is obviously going to be cancelled.
One is because the players have become really familiar with Annan, and the two sides have a tacit understanding, so they don't have to worry about formal things; the other reason is because there are some changes in the underground city, and Annan has given orders before.
After that, let the players not act rashly for the time being.
The really important issue is that Annan was imprisoned for more than a month in the nightmare of "The Long Night is Coming".
Annan was imprisoned from the end of June to the beginning of August, and the whole of July was delayed.
...And the time when St. Alfonso performed the operation to remove the holy bones was the seven days from July 1st to July 7th.
Because July 1st is the holy day for Miss Good Luck, that is, the "big lucky day"; and July 7th is the "double seventh day", that is, the "little lucky day". There are exactly seven days from the 1st to the 7th.
It also satisfies Miss Good Luck’s holy number.
This is a large-scale ceremony that can only be performed once a year. As long as the ceremony happens to cover seven days from the 1st to the 7th, you can get a powerful blessing from Miss Good Luck. The probability of success increases significantly.
Players respect it as "Holy Card Drawing Day".
They also really feel that their luck has really improved significantly in these seven days.
Because Annan has opened up permissions to players before... mainly to facilitate players to use search engines or reply to messages. They can use their mobile phones in the foggy continent.
Therefore, some players will "draw cards in their heads" in the fog world.
In the seven days of July 1st, it was as if the explosion rate had doubled. There was almost no one in the ten companies that was not shipped, and occasionally three-yolked eggs could be seen.
Basically, the shipment rate has increased by about seven times.
It was with the blessing of this kind of luck that Professor Gray performed the operation to remove the holy bones of Saint Alfonso, the "Fearless Saint".
...But after all, ten consecutive draws and single draws are different.
Especially this kind of bet on life and single draw.
As long as the ritual fails, the transplanted person may not be in trouble, but Alfonso will definitely die.
But if this ritual is not performed... Alfonso will gradually be unable to bear the power of the holy bones, and he will eventually die.
Because after Professor Gray's experiments, it turns out that a Silver-level transcendent cannot withstand the power of the Holy Skeleton.
Alfonso persisted for more than ten years, and his body has become tattered because of this. Not only because the power of the holy bones destroyed his body. Professor Gray's mixture also made him weak.
Annan had met Alfonso once before on the train.
Alfonso is Nefertari's brother, and he is almost thirty years old this year. But his voice is as clear as if it has not changed, and his height is not even as high as Annan's today.
This is exactly what his long-term injection of "Courage Mixture" has done to his body.
It was a mixture extracted from the holy skeleton extract. When Professor Hui repaired the holy skeleton, he did not glue all the bone fragments back together, but chose to let some of the bones grow again.
The excess bone fragments were taken away by Professor Gray and made into a culture medium.
This is the materialization of the purest "courage" in the world... The mixture extracted from it can directly inject the "fearless spirit" into the brain. In order to deceive the holy skeleton, Alfonso needs to inject this mixture into the brain regularly.
It's not like taking a dip or pricking a needle in the body.
According to Nefertari, it was a helmet connected to many pipes. Inside the helmet, there were densely packed needles that shone with cold light. There were at least more than twenty, maybe more than thirty.
Alfonso was about to put this helmet on his head, and under the precise control of Professor Gray, let these needles slowly rotate to part the hair and penetrate into the scalp.
That is to say, Professor Gray is very skilled and can insert the needle to the right depth by just feeling... But even so, Alfonso will feel intense pain when receiving the injection.
This mixture interfered with his own development, causing Alfonso's development to stop at the age of fourteen.
The mixture itself also had a strong stimulation and burden on Alfonso's internal organs and brain. An ordinary person would probably not survive more than three years... It was with Professor Gray's continuous logistical support that he was able to
keep on.
Alfonso himself actually knew it very well.
Although he was revered as "Saint Alfonso", he actually knew that the name contained more mockery than respect.
Just like what he himself said to Annan.
He said at the time: "Although I have the holy bones, I am just a thief who stole the power of the saint. The meaning of my existence is to prove that 'the power of the saint can be stolen'... I am just a product display
It’s just a frame, just a model.”
So sad, yet so sober.
Sober to the point of being even a little pitiful.
Such a person... Even if he has nothing to do with Nefertari, Annan doesn't want anything to happen to him.
After making up his mind to leave Denisoya alone, Annan directly contacted Nefertari. Regardless of how Alfonso handled the ritual, Annan now had to go to the underground city.
After all, if he doesn't leave, Denisaw's side will be unable to start a war.
As the saying goes, late will lead to change.
On Danny Sawyer's side, the pirates are still gathering. No one knows what will happen if they continue to delay...
So Annan plans to leave the United Kingdom tomorrow.
Before that, Annan had to ask Nefertari... what was going on with her brother.
Fortunately, Nefertari is also a master of ritual.
She also happened to catch up with the trend initiated by Salvatore and installed mirrored walls in her residence.
There is no need for a player to broadcast live nearby to serve as a microphone, Annan can also directly contact Nefertari.
Nefertari was obviously surprised when he saw Annan's image on the mirror.
But she soon realized Annan's intentions.
Before Annan could ask, she took the initiative to report:
"Last month, Alfonso's ceremony was a success... and he is now recuperating at home."
As she said this, she raised a small mirror as a reflection, allowing Annan to see Alfonso lying next door through the mirror.
Alfonso was seen lying on the bed with his eyes tightly closed.
It looks like the body of a emaciated fourteen-year-old boy, so thin that it reminds people of a skeleton.
It is August in the hot summer, and Alfonso is wearing shorts. From his slightly curled and raised thighs, you can clearly see the traces of protruding bones.
He was wearing short sleeves, and his unusually slender and white arms also gave people this feeling. The protruding white bones gave people a feeling of approaching death.
He did survive, but the ceremony was obviously not a complete success.
Looking at this, it seems that Alfonso has emptied everything he could, squeezed everything he could to the limit, and finally survived the big bone replacement ceremony... Even though this world has advanced medical rituals
and magic, but a month later, he still felt like he was dying.
But new questions appeared in Annan's mind.
At first, Professor Gray planned to sell [Fearless Bone] to Vladimir. The alternatives were Captain in the Stone, Maria, Annan, etc... But in the end, except for Vladimir and Annan,
Everyone else declined Professor Gray's invitation.
So, to whom did the Gray Professor give Alfonso’s holy bones?