Super Righteous Player
Chapter 783 - 123 Cowards and Despicable People_1

Chapter 783: Chapter 123 Cowards and Despicable People_1

[Falling into a nightmare, instance generating...]

[Instance difficulty: Hard, with up to ten entries]

[Current cleanse rate: 0/10]

[The team’s total erosion rate is 12%, instance difficulty increases by 12%, nightmare aberration probability increases by 12%]

[This instance has two save points, each death increases erosion rate by 3%, and forces exit from the instance after a single death]

[This instance provides an introduction to the story and has a decryption reward]

[Instance clearance reward: Wizard class below the bronze rank promote 1-3 levels; Silver rank wizard class promotes 1 level]

[Instance decryption reward: Curse Binding "Immortal"]

[Instance loading complete]

As Thirteen Fragrance’s consciousness was submerged in the dizziness of falling into the nightmare.

A childish voice that couldn’t be identified as male or female softly emerged in front of Thirteen Fragrance, seemingly coming from a higher point of view:

"—Cowards tend to want to apologize before betrayal, while the despicable do it afterwards."

Thirteen Fragrance was startled for a moment.

There was a slight difference, but he could still very simply identify it. It was the voice belonging to His Majesty Annan.

...Was this nightmare’s prologue personally spoken by Annan?

Thirteen Fragrance struggled, trying hard to open his eyes and prop himself up, his hands clenching and regaining strength quickly. But it was more because his eyes seemed to have been closed for too long, initially failing to adapt to the strong light... which made it hard for him to open them.

He stood up staggeringly from the table.

Even though he was somewhat accustomed to the dizziness when entering a nightmare... When Thirteen Fragrance stood up, he suddenly felt a bit unwell.

It was not because of a wound or disease.

Rather, it was a very clear feeling of depression.

If one were to describe it... it was like preparing for a year for the graduate entrance exam, only to come down with a sudden fever on the eve of the exam, pushing through the test with a weak body, and just when you wanted to vent to your lover, you’d find out that they sent a "Let’s break up" text and had even blocked you.

Feeling somewhat like crying, but unable to shed tears. A strong and clear sense of exhaustion came from deep within. It was probably because Thirteen Fragrance possessed the authentic succession of the Soul Reaping wizard that he could immediately separate out this emotion and store it away.

However, it was precisely because of this unpleasant sensation flooding his heart all at once that Thirteen Fragrance could be undeniably certain that this wasn’t his own mood, but rather the intense emotion persistently lingering in this body.

...Strange indeed.

"Whose body is this, and how can it still affect me?"

Thirteen Fragrance murmured quietly.

He stood up and walked around the cramped room without a mirror. He quickly realized that he should still be in Frost Speech Province.

Because when he looked out the window, he saw the tall clock tower of Frost Speech Province not far from his location... They were currently exactly halfway between the Grand Duke’s residence and Dragon Language Church.

"...I seem to have some recollection, this appears to be an abandoned underground tavern."

Thirteen Fragrance murmured.

But then, a knock suddenly came from outside the door.

And this sound also conveniently answered the question of "who am I":

"Prince Dmitry, everything is set up at the ritual site!"

...So I am Dmitry?

Thirteen Fragrance was stunned for a moment.

He immediately responded, "All right, wait a moment."

He didn’t ask the Winter’s Hand to leave directly because he didn’t have that memory at all and didn’t know where the ritual site was.

If he left immediately, Thirteen Fragrances always felt that he would miss something.

The more tightly packed the arrangement of the nightmare... The more it called to him to move on to the next scene right after he woke up, the more Thirteen Fragrances wanted to stay in the current scene for a while.

There might be something useful to find.

In the scenes to come, it could be used, or it might simply be the essential item needed to reveal hidden settings or enter a secret ending. Most likely, there wouldn’t be time to come back for it later... a critical "plot item".

In the nightmares Thirteen Fragrances personally experienced, this type of scenario wasn’t common.

——But he was quite adept at it.

His life these days could be described as very busy.

Unlike Husky, who wandered around and made friends, Thirteen Fragrances stayed at home, diligently working. He barely stepped outside.

Apart from soloing nightmares and grinding through instances, he was either studying spells, catching up on various knowledge of this world... or watching recordings of others cleansing nightmares.

Soon, Thirteen Fragrances roughly categorized several types of nightmares and had corresponding strategies in mind——just lacking practice and evidence for now.

The puzzle-solving difficulty of nightmares, strictly speaking, wasn’t actually high... At least below Twisted difficulty, and when the nightmares had not undergone any aberration, it was indeed not high. The decryption logic was very clear, basically revolving around the main line of "what you need to do".

Its main difficulty lay in the lack of highlighted hints.

In other words, one couldn’t just randomly click or try; conclusions had to be reached through clear logic.

However, for Thirteen Fragrances, this wouldn’t be too difficult. If he really touched upon something useful, he should be able to directly sense that "it might be useful".

And in this brief time, Thirteen Fragrances indeed found something "that might be useful".

——That was a bracelet laying on the table.

It was a bracelet made of amber beads, and at first glance, Thirteen Fragrances mistook it for sandalwood prayer beads.

He touched it with his hand; there was no warmth left on it. But if he looked at an angle, he could see a very thin layer of dust on the table, and after taking the bracelet, the clean contact point was fairly visible.

Upon closer observation, he noticed a mark on his left hand that seemed to come from wearing the bracelet for a long time.

It must be that Dmitry removed it for fear that he might accidentally break the string of the bracelet or scratch the amber while sleeping.

This undoubtedly proved that Dmitry treasured the bracelet greatly.

If he were called away, he would surely wear it to prevent loss.

As he put on the bracelet, Thirteen Fragrances indeed felt a significant reduction in the heaviness and irritability in his heart.

Could this be a bracelet with a calming function?

Then it was indeed valuable...

Thirteen Fragrances thought to himself.

He had delayed for quite some time, so without searching the house further, Thirteen Fragrances just pushed the door and left.

"Let’s go together."

Thirteen Fragrances said succinctly.

What he meant was — hurry up and lead the way.

But his cautious thinking seemed to be an overestimation.

Because at the next moment.

Thirteen Fragrances suddenly felt his body moving involuntarily, propelling him towards a certain place.

This was a cutscene CG.

And it was at this moment that the introductory plot of this instance finally appeared before his eyes.