After hanging up the one-way video call, Annan frowned and huddled in his chair, thinking.
No matter how I think about it, I feel like something is not quite right.
——If their goal is just to obtain a lot of gold-level transcendent beings, then they don't need to go to such trouble at all.
There is a high probability that they have already started to break into the curse cellar.
So this also means that they have obtained the magic power.
It only needs to be mass-produced first, and then kill some Bronze-level extraordinary beings to obtain the "foundation" used to create nightmares.
Directly use the spell to multiply the level-clearing rewards by dozens or hundreds of times. After clearing the level once, you will be full of bronze. The second time, you will successfully advance to silver. Once again, you will be full of silver, and then prepare to advance to gold——
It just provides the power of the curse. Curse power can definitely do this easily... This can at least escort a large number of loyal subordinates to the peak of Silver.
There won't even be any danger.
Isn't this delicious?
As for the Far North Brotherhood, it seems that their original purpose was to obtain something purifying "beyond pure gold"...
Is this reasonable?
Their fundamental purpose should be to "prevent the shrinking Great Barrier from destroying their luxurious life." They assassinated Annan, contacted the Icebreaker Army, raised private soldiers, and even built curse cellars, extracted curse energy, and communicated with the fallen
, is just a "means" rather than an "end".
Those stupid nobles who are eager to keep and consolidate their power are indeed not smart people, and they are definitely willing to try any taboo - after all, they will soon burp if they don't get started.
So it seems unreasonable to judge them based on ordinary people's taboos and IQ.
But this circle is too big, and it's not quick at all.
It is neither safe, controllable, nor labor-saving and fast enough.
How could those timid, short-sighted, and confused fools give priority to taking such a path?
"If you eliminate all impossibilities, only possibilities remain..."
Annan murmured.
Then there is only one result left.
——At least one traitor has infiltrated the power level of the Far North Brotherhood. He at least has the absolute right to speak to overpower other noble staff.
No, it doesn't seem accurate to call him a traitor... because he doesn't care what happens to the Winter Principality at all. So he is not on Annan's side.
You know, even if those nobles are idiots, the "domestic brains" who give them ideas are definitely smart people.
Longjing Cha could immediately realize that something was wrong just by relying on the few words he got from Saltpeter Ranch... Those aides must also be able to see that something was not right with this plan.
But it is still being implemented steadily.
That means that the identity of the person who proposed this plan may be more than one level higher than others. Only then will other people know that something is wrong and cannot object openly.
Even just through the line of Saltpeter Ranch, which provides demon blood, we can know the outline of this plan. This means that the completion of this plan has reached the level that "it doesn't matter if it is leaked to partners."
——This is even more wrong.
It is even more impossible for Annan to be assassinated by just two or three miscellaneous fish and fallen people.
If they had already obtained the "Satisfactory Gold", then it wouldn't be as simple as sending a few silver-level degenerates to assassinate Annan - it must be a twenty-five-man group composed of gold-level extraordinary beings who directly overthrow Frost Whisper Province.
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The difference in strength between a gold-level transcendent and a gold-level fallen person is that they are not at the same level at all.
Kafni once said to Annan that the essence of the power of the extraordinary is to use curses to transform the soul, while the essence of the power of the fallen is to use curses to transform the human body.
Not to mention the damage caused by the unstable mind of the fallen.
The real shortcoming of the Fallen Way is that they are still the "gaseous souls" of Bronze-level extraordinary beings.
One sign of the fallen is that their souls are "like black smoke", while the souls of gold-level transcendents are "as bright as diamonds and as bright as rainbows". This means that the demonized fallen cannot obtain much elemental power at all.
It is even more impossible for them to sublimate into gods - because in the sublimation ceremony, only the soul can ride on the sky carriage and enter the light world.
——All this is because the quality of their souls is not enough.
And Annan knows more than Kaifuni.
For example... Annan learned that the "power of elements" is not the original essential ability of this world. It only filled the world after Sui Fu burned the Philosopher's Stone.
The Philosopher's Stone is the blood of the world in the "virtual world", and its status is equivalent to solid curse energy.
——In other words, the real Philosopher's Stone was most likely stolen by Sui's father from the virtual world.
Until then, the soul that has reached the [Dyeing] position will only be "noble".
If no one can use the power of elements, then the path to sublimation should be inferior to the path to fall in the same period until the sublimation ceremony is completed.
This reminds Annan of the battle between immortals and demons...
Because the path of depravity is the "beast path" of transforming human beings with curses - for a world full of curses, this may be the right path.
Only the Fallen Path is more effective and powerful than the Extraordinary Path, then the Fallen Path will have the value to be passed down.
Otherwise, it would have been eliminated long ago in the thousands or even tens of thousands of years of civilization history.
"On Destiny and Half of the Mysteries of Dice" mentions, "Up is a jump, downward is a step." This is a subtle mention of the difference between the "road of sublimation" and the "road of degradation"
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——That’s why the sublimation ceremony is called “sublimation ceremony”.
Because this is the "difference" that is unique to the road to sublimation.
It is precisely because people who learned about the sublimation ceremony too easily associate it with the road to sublimation. Therefore, high-ranking extraordinary beings changed the ancient name "Road to Sublimation" to "Road to Extraordinary" for the purpose of preserving
This secret.
No matter how Sui Father obtained the Philosopher's Stone, the world is now full of elemental power. Only the path of sublimation can fully utilize this ability... This is an epic version of the "dyeing" bit of the path of sublimation.
strengthen.
Annan immediately realized at that time that the righteous gods hoped to increase the number of "gods" through this "version strengthening" method.
He is very familiar with this kind of operation... Changing the player's behavioral tendencies through "enhancement" and "weakening" is the basic skill of numerical planning.
Because gods can only be born through the "Road of Sublimation". And when you reach the Dyeing Stage, you can only wait for the birth of the Book of Truth... Before reaching the Truth Stage, the sublimated one must always be deflated. And the birth of the Book of Truth has no rules.
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Is this reasonable?
In this mint.
The addition of the concept of "power of elements" allows "powerful, pure soul" to truly become a power within reach.
Even if there are more than a dozen demons, only two or three gold-level extraordinary beings with sufficient souls can easily kill them without leaving any trace behind.
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If those two brothers at Saltpeter Ranch hadn't had the secret of creation, they would have been killed by the Saint with two swords and one sword at a time... Of course, the Saint was actually at the level of truth.
However, it can also be seen that the Far North Brotherhood definitely does not have multiple gold-level extraordinary beings.
Because there are no wild gold-level extraordinary beings in the entire Principality of Winter - the Hand of Winter is bound to the silver level, and illegal silver-level extraordinary beings who try to continue to advance in the Principality of Winter will be captured and monitored by the Hand of Winter.
Detain, expel.
The current Howling White Tower has not elected a new tower owner.
So except for Maria, the daughter of the storm, and Vasika, the "unbalanced beauty" who can resist the golden level under special circumstances, the only remaining golden level in winter are the pope of the old grandmother and the Melvin family.
"The God of the World". The latter two are not powers that directly belong to the Winter Family.
This is the weakest period of the Winter Principality—if you don’t count the ancestor-inviting ceremony that is unknown to outsiders.
The Far North Brotherhood has not been able to kill them yet, probably because they are noobs.
Even if they have two gold-level people, they can come over to fight and re-divide their territory. If there are more than three, they can basically rush into Frost Whisper Province to put Annan and Ivan under house arrest, "holding the emperor hostage to order the princes".
Therefore, they have definitely not completed the "fulfilling gold" experiment now.
It would be better to say that it was the person who proposed this experiment who restricted them... Otherwise, they would have already started mass-producing the silver army after building the curse cellar.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly.
——He remembered another thing.
As the lords of the "northernmost part of the map", the Far North Brotherhood really doesn't have much money.
So, how did they convince the fallen forces in Saltpeter Ranch and Nata County to be loyal to them? According to the character of these fallen people, they should go back and sell these partners and come to the Grand Duke for reward.
Unless they want something else from their hands.
Consider this...
"...Could it be that a shadow ruler has already appeared in the world of the fallen?"
Annan whispered worriedly.
Able to cross borders and control all fallen people.
The Far North Brotherhood is just a chess piece at their disposal - a chess piece used to produce "full gold".
And their ultimate goal of obtaining [Satisfaction Gold]... is obviously to break free from the road of corruption.
Someone who could transcend national borders and control the fallen from Noah, the underground, and the cold winter - who could he be?