The Righteous Player(s) - Chapter 1137

[Chapter 171 Ingrid’s Ritual]

“Soronic, and Celicia – from the very beginning, two people.”

Annan turned to look at Celicia: “Do you remember? About Nicholas II.

“He was just a nightmare. Just an afterimage.

But he thought he was the legendary alchemist Nicholas.

“You also just keep the memory of Thoronic – both personality and personal abilities are completely different from him. Do you think this is because you are too inferior, so you changed your appearance after getting this body?”

The corner of Annan’s mouth rose slightly: “So, have you considered…this is your character originally?”

“…Could it be that I am Ingrid?”

Celicia’s pupils vibrated violently.

Hearing Annan’s analysis, she now began to seriously doubt whether she was Ingrid who had forgotten her memory.

Annan shook his head: “No, you are indeed yourself.

“Because this body is indeed a ‘created doll’.

Ingrid can’t be turned into a puppet.

“But the question is… Who made you?” The

so-called… country is easy to change, but your nature is hard to change.

Think carefully, who made Thoronic’s current identity “Celecia” for him?

——It is “Professor Wolf” Frederick Wolfheart.

His “shell” comes from the Melvin family, and inside is a part of the golden-level idol wizard “Professor Gray” – “Bone Healer” plus “Professor Wolf” can be combined into “Professor Gray”.

At that time, “Ingrid” and Frederick were both studying with Professor Gray.

They are classmates, and they had an ambiguous teenage relationship.

And in the opposite sex that “Ingrid” once took a fancy to and intended to use as a ritual material, this name once appeared: Frederick Melvin.

From this, it can actually be deduced that Professor Gray knew Ingrid from the beginning.

It wasn’t the girl with the dark blue long hair when she was studying with Professor Gray.

But as “the tower master of the Thousand-faced Pagoda”, “the Pope of Miss Luck”, the real Ingrid!

However, when Ingrid, who had sealed her memories, came to “study”, Professor Gray said nothing.

It is impossible for him not to understand this matter… Back then, the God of Understanding and Resonance, “The Feaster”, had also banned his memory from traveling in the world.

Looking back, Professor Gray still reads poetry in front of Ingrid every day.

It was “Praise for the Name of the Heavenly Chariot”.

It’s like wanting the other person to remember something.

In other words…Professor Gray stood with Ingrid from the very beginning!

And the body of Celicia was made by “Professor Wolf” himself.

“…So, whose appearance is this?”

Annan replied affirmatively: “There is no doubt that this appearance is from ‘Ingrid’!”

Hearing this, Arthur’s pupils shrank: ” Speaking of which… I once knew a son of the tower. She looks very similar to the captain…”

“It’s your childhood sweetheart, right.”

Annan asked calmly.

Arthur paused and nodded: “It can be considered as well.”

“That means…”

Ofishi’s expression was a little complicated.

It seems to be a bit of pity, but also like a blessing.

There seems to be some sadness between the eyebrows.

And Celicia clasped herself with both hands, shrank as if afraid of the cold, and lowered her head.

The pink-purple-haired girl trembled slightly.

——She herself realized the problem.

But the truth must also be told.

So Annan told the truth:

“Celecia, you’re not actually Thoronic. You were a girl from the very beginning… Or, you made ‘Soronic’ as a sacrifice. The ‘Idol of Ingrid’.”

This is the most primitive definition of the “Idol School”.

The so-called… mud statues.

Some symbols are artificially given a specific meaning, hoping that it can play a special role through the “law of similarity” and “law of contamination”.

The most typical is the “idol” used to pray for rain.

The most popular spell in ancient China was the spell of praying for rain.

Usually, they will first use mud or wood to shape the statue of the Dragon King and hold a complex rain prayer ceremony.

But if there are too many failures in praying for rain, they will whip, scold, put chains in angrily, and even overthrow and demolish the “idol” of the Dragon King.

If it doesn’t work, replace it again.

In Japan, there are similar emergency measures.

If the rain spell fails too many times, angry villagers will drag out the local gods enshrined in the shrine and throw them into the rice fields.

Italians in Europe have also tried to use the “Idols” of saints to pray for rain, and failed to throw the icons into pools or expelled from the parishes they guarded.

Congregations in Puerto Licata have also stripped saints of their clothing, put on fetters and chains, and even slapped them in the face of a drought to threaten “it must rain immediately”.

This approach is found all over the world—everywhere in the transition where stone sculpting technology has emerged, but remains ignorant, there are similar traditions.

Of course, these “idols” do not have the power to pray for rain.

But people enforced the concept of them – and treated them as living beings to worship, control or threaten.

It is because they are living creatures that they are fearful, greedy,… fearful of people.

Grant the concept of nothingness and lifeless clay idols to “identity”.

Make it “feel human”.

This is the foundation of the “idol spell”.

“I understand!”

Euphemia, who also belongs to the idol school family, was the first to fully understand Annan’s meaning: “Although the captain thinks he is ‘Soronic’, the characters we all see are Exactly the same ‘Celicia’ as that Ingrid. Then the captain actually exists as an idol of ‘Ingrid’.

“She thinks of herself as ‘Soronic,’ like hiding in ice Poison in the block.

As the ice melts, the poison is released into the cup…and as she denies her ‘Soronic’ past, she gets closer and closer to Ingrid.

“Actually, at the moment of Celicia’s birth, Thoronic was actually killed by Professor Wolf. What was left were all the memories of Thoronic, who mistakenly thought he was a body replaced. Lycia’!

“If Celesia was simply given a personality, she would still think she was just a ‘doll’.

She must be made to think that she is a living creature – a living human being in order to form a ‘strong idol relationship’ with Ingrid!

That is to

say.

Before Celicia denies her life as “Soronic”, then she is “Soronic”. Even if the gods come in person, they can only find out “Soronic” from the depths of her soul. Ronik”.

But when she denied her past. She

completely rejected her greatest desire to pursue Vladimir the Winterbreaker. She

believed that “Soronik’s existence has no meaning”, and that she “had never been better.” The moment Soronic”…

the ice outside the poisonous melted.

She truly became Celicia – Ingrid’s stand-in!

“That is to say,” Annan said calmly, “after Celestia saw the Winter Defender and was abandoned by him… or a period of time before that.” The Winter Defender was Thoronic

‘s teacher after all.

Unlike what Annan initially thought, “his arrogant self-confidence knew Thoronic”.

He did know Thoronic.

Because of this, he was the first to notice that something was wrong.

He realized that Annan was caught in Ingrid’s conspiracy – a conspiracy that Annan could not crack.

Because Annan is a “good guy”.

Because of the death of the Winter Defender, Annan is even less likely to kill Celicia—and it is impossible to kill the people Celicia values.

Because even Annan himself did not think of Celicia as “Soronic”.

“—I refuse to help you anyway.

“—I am a wicked man.

But nothing bad.

I gladly accept the consequences, but I will never repent.

“—The wicked must go to the end as if they belonged to the wicked.” What

did he mean by “help”?

It has nothing to do with the Book of the Sky Train.

Because in any case, as long as he dies, Annan can get the fragments of his body.

The help he was talking about at the time was “Ingrid’s conspiracy”.

“—When I realized that he had become Celicia. I gave up killing her and left.”

Of course this couldn’t be “mercy”.

Whether it was Thoronic or Celicia, it had nothing to do with him.

The reason why he gave up killing Celicia was precisely because if left alone – she was enough to take away everything from Annan!

Because he is wicked.

The first and only Vladimir to perceive this conspiracy.

Only deliberately left enough to make everything Annan into nothingness, the last trap.

“From the time when the Winter Rebels believed that ‘the real Thoronic is dead’.

“—Any one of you, just use the element of ‘love’ to ascend to the golden stage.

It means that Ingrid has completed her ritual.

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