Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1012 - 70 Light of Many Lights

Chapter 1012: Chapter 70 Light of Many Lights

Merely mentioning its name could make one perceived.

There was no physical entity of the monster.

"You guessed right."

Isaac noticed Annan’s gaze, nodded, and subconsciously lowered his voice, "It is... the Non-Snake."

An intangible entity, a beast of increasing entropy, the serpent that ends the world.

Its mere existence would fill the world with chaos, an enemy of the world.

The divine nature of the Mist Realm was the living pillar of this world, and the first quality it should possess was order. In a sense, these deities combined might barely compare to the Worm.

Or perhaps it was because the world’s power of order was so formidable that it gave birth to the Worm from the corpse of the Charioteer as the counterbalance to order.

...But hadn’t the Worm been sealed into the future by the power of the Sixth Phase’s Book of Oblivion when the Great Barrier collapsed? Even if the seal leaked, it shouldn’t have affected the era of the "Unified War" where the Worm "no longer existed."

Could it be that the Worm’s power could transcend timelines?

Or was it...

Annan pondered for a moment.

He suddenly asked, "Does Hugo know about this? I mean the peculiar parts during the Fool’s War."

"It’s part of the Tower Master’s heritage."

"I see..."

Annan suddenly had some uncertain conjectures.

If it wasn’t that every high-ranking member within each Wizard’s Tower had Worm Cultists hidden amongst them.

The only conclusion was that there was something wrong with the Wizard’s Tower itself.

The Wizard’s Tower was initially created by the Lady of Mysteries, and at the time, it was certainly fine.

But when the Elves arrived on the Aesirland continent and established the empire... after they evenly distributed the Wizard’s Tower across different regions, curse energy became the main power source of the Wizard’s Tower.

After the Third Era ended, curse energy was abandoned.

Only two Wizard’s Tower still possessed infinite energy sources.

— Those were the Tower of the Storms and the Thousand-Faced Phantom Tower.

The former was due to the infinite storm power residue of the Lady of the Storm, while the latter was because... the Thousand-Faced Phantom Tower itself was the temple of Madam Haoyun.

However, there was a problem here.

That is, the Wizard’s Tower definitely existed before curse energy—back then, the Wizard’s Towers had floated over.

And building a Curse Cellar required drilling deep wells from the ground.

Then, what was powering the Wizard’s Tower before they started using curse energy?

"I have a thought..."

Annan said slowly, "Did the ’Croupier’ of the Thousand-Faced Phantom Tower participate in the Unified War?

"No. Indeed, some people had considered whether it was related to ’Madam Haoyun’s Dice’... but the mainstream view at the time was that it should be unrelated to Madam Haoyun."

Isaac asserted confidently, "Because actually not all Wizard’s Towers went mad. Apart from the Thousand-Faced Phantom Tower, even the Tower of the Storms in your Winter Duchy was initially aloof and kept a rather clear mind. It was only in the late stages of the war, after constant attacks, that it finally caught fire and decided to strike back."

— So there was also the Tower of the Storms.

Annan finally confirmed something.

He had specifically only asked half of his question to prevent making leading statements and causing misinformation.

And Isaac just saw Annan becoming silent for a moment.

He immediately guessed what Annan meant.

"Are you suggesting... it’s related to curse energy?"

Isaac frowned deeply, "This possibility was actually proposed by scholars back then. Because the clearest ones were the Tower of the Storms and the Thousand-Faced Phantom Tower, next were those like the White Jade Tower, which didn’t have Gold ranks. Their commonality is that they never used curse energy from the start.

"But at that time, curse energy had already been discontinued for several hundred years. The older generation that used curse energy had already died out by then. Also, this couldn’t explain why the rationality of the White Jade Tower was relatively more abundant... they were the largest consumers of curse energy at that time."

"Was it finally determined that that bastard creature was responsible?"

"We don’t have evidence. But from the abnormal nature of the events, we deduce it was the Non-Snake causing mischief."

Isaac said from a more objective perspective.

He saw that Annan was still somewhat puzzled, so he straightforwardly spoke to Thirteen Spices and Husky, "You folks go rest for now. His Majesty has just ascended to the Stigmatized position, Lord Hugo certainly still has things to discuss."

"Wait a moment!"

Annan suddenly stopped Thirteen Spices and Husky, "I choose you as my confidants."

"...Can we do that?"

Thirteen Spices hesitated.

However, Husky promptly patted her chest, "Confide in me without worry, my mouth is famously tight—I won’t tell anyone!"

Isaac calmly asked, "Do I need to leave for a bit?"

"No need. Actually, it’s alright even if it gets out."

Annan smiled, "I even plan to make this Curse Binding public.

"My newly obtained Curse Binding is called ’Light of Many Lights’—my power temporarily declines each night, but as long as one person becomes good because of me, or a good person ascends to the Light Realm because of me, I can immediately recover all my temporarily declined power, and it won’t fade again for a short period."

"... A mitigating type of Curse Binding."

Isaac nodded slightly, "That’s manageable. The method to mitigate this Curse Binding, how do you plan to achieve it?"

"I am the Duke, the ruler of the Winter Duchy."

Annan revealed a confident smile, "Becoming good because of my policies—that’s not a given, right? Rather, it’s natural for life to keep getting better and for people to become optimistic and cheerful.

"Goodness requires space. If people can’t survive, how can we loftily demand they be righteous? If there is no fairness or justice, and walking on the street could mean death at any moment, how could there be a place where good people can walk proudly and live peacefully?

"If my citizens have no little opportunity to become upright and good; if each day not even one good person is born, then that is my mistake—and a significant one at that. My power waning as a result would be a punishment for me... it would immediately remind me that I’ve taken the wrong path.

"Thus, it’s not a punishment, but an admonition. I have an adviser who can remind me in real-time, one who can’t be bought and won’t fear me—how is this a constraint? This is an advantage.

"I don’t seek supreme power or control over the whole world; power means nothing to me. I just hope that people can live better and better... that they don’t have to turn to corruption, and can also live a happy and peaceful life."

Hearing this,

Whether it was Thirteen Spices, Isaac, or even Husky... they all paused for a moment.

Annan himself hadn’t noticed that as he spoke, he was glowing.

And it wasn’t the radiance of a Healing Aura... but another kind of brilliance.

A brilliance that made one genuinely feel his earnest sincerity.

— That indeed was the Light of Many Lights.