The Righteous Player(s) - Chapter 278

[Chapter 276 The Great Hunting Banquet]

“I’m Ken Carter.” The

old man’s voice was low and even trembling: “I’m a…a ritualist from Nata County.”

Nata County…

Annan frowned slightly.

He had indeed heard the name of the place…it wasn’t a good place.

Nattashire is a Viscounty near the western border of Noah.

The terrain itself is similar to Roseburg, but the difference is… it has nothing further west.

Yes, the westernmost side is the border of Noah’s kingdom.

In the past few decades, Natta County has even been completely eaten by the gray fog gradually eroding inwards. The plain west of the city – and a third of the urban area.

After five years, the erosion rate has halved.

At this distance, it is impossible for the barrier to completely block the penetration of the gray fog.

A curse of dust, visible to the naked eye, flies through the city—the entire city is gray during the day, and the sky turns blood red as night approaches.

Ordinary people who live in such places are prone to developing chronic diseases within a few years – after all, the water source is very likely to be polluted by the curse.

Living for a long time, unclean air and water sources will greatly weaken the physique of ordinary people.

And those food exposed to the air will even grow mold within two or three days, and the rate of decay of fresh meat, vegetables and fruits is more than three times that of the mainland.

If you accidentally eat food contaminated by the curse, you are likely to die in a short time due to an acute infection.

This led directly to the decision of the lord of Nattashire to evacuate inland and completely abandon the city.

In the absence of wages, the city guards and the police station also quickly evacuated… In the absence of the maintainers of order, many vicious robberies and murders soon occurred.

This directly led to the caravan no longer going to Nattashire – so the Church of the Silver Sir also evacuated.

They put up signs warning passersby not to go forward.

And persuade people in the city to leave as soon as possible.

But it’s clear… a brand can’t stop those illegal superhumans who crave power, ordinary people who fanatical pursuit of supernatural powers, and criminals who commit serious crimes and are forced to flee.

Even the brand itself was stolen in the first month after it was erected.

In the end, Natta County directly became a total lawless zone.

The indescribable monsters in the gray fog will even go directly into the city to prey; some superhumans who are desperate for power will enter Nata County and live near the gray fog inside the enchantment, sucking the vicious curse in the gray fog—— This will cause their erosion degree to rise sharply, and their temperament will gradually become violent and dark, but it will also make their strength increase rapidly.

At least to the top of bronze, there is no difficulty.

And these illegal superhumans have no supervision, naturally they do not need to obey the law honestly, and naturally it is impossible to keep a low profile – they fight, it will lead to a lot of nightmares.

With a lot of uncontrollable nightmares and the erosion of the gray fog, a demon may be born somewhere at any time.

As you can imagine.

There are no “ordinary people” here at all.

Even giving up his identity and becoming a refugee in an inland city… is far better than living in Nata County.

In fact, in some cities in Noah’s interior, “Nata County people” can completely refer to “refugees”.

This is a group of homeless people.

A lot of people have a bad impression of them…because these Nattashire people grew up in that bad environment, and many of them will become gang members such as thieves, liars, traffickers, etc.

This is their specialty.

But in contrast

, “supernatural” abilities, which are generally kept secret elsewhere

, are almost public in Natta County.

They unconsciously sucked a lot of vicious curses, and they could easily become wild superhumans in a nightmare—the kind of dangerous superhumans whose erosion rate exceeded 50% at the beginning of their birth.

In order to fight against the extraordinary, the taboo knowledge of becoming a ritualist will also be circulated in Nata County.

The dangers of this technology make no sense to the people of Natashire.

Once living in a precarious city, the taboos and dangers of ritualist knowledge are all the more ridiculous – the same goes for knowledge about blasting, poison, etc.

Yes, the explosion –

Annan thought of this, and asked:

“You are from Natta County?”

“Yes, I have been in Natta County for forty years.”

“Then why did you leave Natta County?”

” Of course… to serve my master.” The

old man whispered, “I won’t say his name. He was the one who took me and my child from Nattashire, and let my child be able to There is school, there is a normal job. I owe him a life…”

Then you are still telling me so much?

The corner of Annan’s mouth rose slightly, but he didn’t say much.

His Excellency Ken Carter should have realized that.

Annan will use the magic of the Silver Sir – there are only two possibilities.

Silver Sir has seen through Roof’s plan and intends to intervene;

or, he is in the nightmare of someone, and the person in front of him is the Silver Hand of the Church of Silver Lord.

No matter which possibility, his concealment is actually meaningless.

Because if the clergy of the Silver Sir had doubts, they could launch an investigation.

And these secrets are impossible to hide from the church.

As long as Yin Jue personally checks the accounts, basically any secrets will be discovered by him.

Yinjue can see everyone and all types of “transactions” in this world.

And trace back to the time of the transaction, the content of the transaction and the object of the transaction.

This is why, although He has no authority over the “truth” or “secret”…but almost nothing can be hidden from Him.

“—So, either way. Your concealment is meaningless.”

Annan smiled and said calmly: “Tell me the truth, you don’t have to show me your loyal and master appearance.”

Ken heard the words and smiled silently.

He sighed and said in a low voice,

“Okay… I’m in a showdown. I’ll say anything.

”

It is the domain of the ‘tragic writer’, the god of murder and conspiracy… The general content of the ceremony is to use six people carrying lead stones to form a ‘stage’ in a certain banquet, frame a range, and set everyone in it. designated as ‘Actor’.

And with a ‘grand enough opening’, sacrifice a person, trigger a large-scale chaos to open the ceremony, and curse the fate of every ‘actor’ during the period.

“The order of killing is completely random, hand-picked by the ‘tragedy writer’. Each chosen person, known as the ‘speaker’, can only temporarily save himself from bad luck by killing another person, and will’ The line ‘Leave it to the next person; or encounter a catastrophe… This catastrophe may lead to death.

“And for each person who dies, the next person’s bad luck will be more terrible, or even doubled.

Until the ‘closing ceremony’ sends the ‘tragic writer’ away.

And if the ‘closing’ cannot be completed, the ceremony is considered a failure.

After the last actor dies, all the ‘curtain weavers’ die in agony.

”

That’s… us.

Ken pointed to himself with a wry smile: “And… everyone who participated in this plan.”

“As for the price of the ceremony and the reward after its completion, I think you shouldn’t care…because the process of the ceremony itself is their purpose. First, start a grand fire and burn one person as the opening… …the ceremony has been completed.”

“…they?”

Annan keenly caught a key word.

Ken nodded slowly, his voice very complicated: “But please don’t ask, I can’t say or write his name. I also don’t want to participate in this plan… but I I have no choice. Because I don’t think they will organize us to start a second fire to ‘close’. The greater possibility is to let us all die as a silence.”

“‘He’…”

Annan murmured Said: “Then I know who it is.”

Bacheng is the third prince Philip.

Besides him, who else could let the heir of the crow family take risks?

It was Ferdinand…

Did he know that he was placed in the position of a “possible victim”?

Now Annan finally knows… The heirs died one after another in a short period of time, but the murderer could never be found. How did they do it!

Their fate had been cursed a few years ago – but they didn’t notice it!

In order to successfully curse and kill them, many people would have died before that.

Annan suddenly felt a chill in his heart –

that is to say, what he wants to prevent is not just explosions and fires…?

This is the first time Annan came into contact with the power of “destiny”.

Of course… if it insists on saying it, it is not actually destiny.

Judging from the clergy of this false god—or the evil god, he does not possess the fields of “accidents” and “lucky” like Miss Luck.

The god of murder and conspiracy… This one is afraid to “manually” create bad luck.

“…Tell me, how to stop this ceremony.”

Annan asked slowly as he thought about it.