Chapter 176 Save Point

The latest website: Annan did not send the four back to the frozen water port, but left them in Roseburg after treating them to a sumptuous dinner.

In order to prevent the players from doing anything, Annan specifically instructed them - let them not move in the city for the past two days, it is best not to let other people know that they are here.

They also obviously realized that there might be a big plot coming up next. So they responded obediently.

In Annan, he returned to the frozen water port alone.

He pulled out John's broken sword from the City Lord's Mansion and entered the nightmare again.

But this time, the prompt when entering the nightmare is obviously different——

It no longer has rank and occupation requirements:

[Bound nightmare fragments detected]

[Falling into a nightmare after ten seconds, ten, nine...]

...bound?

Annan was startled.

Speaking of which, it seems that the "Betrayer" nightmare is indeed the only nightmare that needs to be bound. After that, whether it was "Gallery", "White Tower" or "Witch Hunt", there was no mention of "need to bind".

Is it because the carrier of this nightmare is special?

Annan recalled.

The key to the gallery is the word "Bone Lord" and the city of Frozen Water Harbor.

The key to the White Tower requires Gerald's bones.

The key to the witch hunt is Carney's "scarred skin fragments".

Only the nightmare of "Betrayer" requires multiple purifications, but there is only one key.

It turns out that the upper limit of the number of people entering the nightmare depends on how many "keys" can be divided.

- In other words, a "key" that has been used by others cannot be used by others.

Not surprisingly,

This copy also has a prompt to read the archive:

[Falling into a nightmare, the copy is being generated...]

[Dungeon difficulty is easy, you can enter at most three times]

[Current purification rate is 1/3]

[The total erosion of the squad is 8%, the difficulty of the copy increases by 8%, and the probability of nightmare distortion increases by 8%]

[This dungeon has a total of 1 save point, each death increases by 1% erosion, and the dungeon is forced to exit after three deaths]

[This copy provides the introduction of the plot, and there are decryption rewards]

[Dungeon Clearance Reward: Occupation (Swordsman) increased by 1 level]

[Dungeon decryption reward: Occupation (Wizard) rises by 1 level]

[Saved Point: Tongue in the Mirror]

[Please select the nightmare entrance——]

[Don Juan Geraint's room]

【Abandoned utility room】

...I choose, [abandoned utility room].

Annan silently selected the second option.

It seems that because of his choice, the vertigo Annan experienced was not too strong. Or... he also had less "reading" time when he entered the nightmare.

When Annan opened his eyes again, he only smelled a little pungent fishy smell.

And his gaze suddenly rose a bit - he obviously returned to the body of the stupid big guard "John".

At this moment, Annan was in an empty room.

The room was extremely empty, and in the center was a mirror with a broken screen, lying on the ground securely.

Annan paused, walked over and picked up the mirror.

In front of him, a light curtain that gave him some sense of sight appeared again:

【Mirror without tongue】

【Type: Material / Sundries (Blue)】

[Description: The destroyed curse has lost its original function]

[Effect: The holder will suffer from the curse "No more words"]

[No more words: If the holder is attacked before the words are finished, the attack ignores the defense]

"...So the save point is here?"

Annan suddenly realized.

In that case, if I was killed by Captain Klaus after exploring this room for the first time... I might be resurrected here.

Annan immediately checked his equipment.

fine.

Don Juan's silver pocket watch is on him...

Annan raised his head and looked at the door.

The memory of half a month ago quickly floated in his mind.

After a while, Klaus, who felt that the ceremony was cut off, would arrive here.

The point is not to let him see that the ritual in the room has been destroyed by himself - but to let him think that he has rewritten the goal of the ritual.

It's not difficult. Just change the symbols on the tongue a little... and then engrave the corresponding symbols on your tongue. Or just replace it with your own prepared beef tongue.

Setting up a ceremony is a technical activity.

It is much simpler to destroy or rewrite the ritual.

It's like, although I can't understand what the data in the character file in the stand-alone game is and why it is written like this. But looking up and modifying the numbers after words like "money", "attributes" or "quantity of items" can still be done by the average player.

So Annan threw the mirror away—no need to hide it, because Klaus couldn't get in the door in the first place. Otherwise, as long as he sees that the ritual is destroyed rather than rewritten, he will attack Annan as well.

If he has to get in...

Then only "Zhengming things" can serve.

In order to make up for the loophole, Annan used a knife to lightly cut his tongue this time. He sucked the blood out a little, making his tongue as blurry as possible.

In this way, even if Klaus had doubts in his heart, after he saw the blood on his tongue, he would dispel his luck. And it also prevents him from seeing Annan's clean tongue.

- Anyway, this is John's body, not Don Juan's.

If it wasn't for worrying about the inconvenience of speaking for a while, Annan chopped off his tongue, sliced ​​it, added onion, ginger, garlic, chili, soy sauce, cooking wine, salt, sugar, pepper, and fried noodles without any psychological pressure...

So Annan walked out of the room, turned around and closed the door.

This time Klaus was coming later—or rather, Annan came out earlier because he didn't need to hide the mirror.

When Klaus hurriedly passed the last corner, he saw the strong and tall guard John, leaning in front of the door of the ceremony hall, looking at him maliciously.

Klaus moved in his heart.

He made a cold and chilling look, and drew his weapon with murderous intent.

But John just put his right hand in front of his mouth and made a silent gesture with a smile. On the simple and honest face that belonged to John, a proud and bright smile gradually appeared.

Neither of them moved, neither spoke a word.

For a moment there was a terrible silence in the narrow corridor.

"do not come."

John said with a smile: "The tongue in the mirror, right?"

Hearing this word, Klaus's expression finally moved.

There was a strong unwillingness on his face, and finally he sighed deeply and put down the right hand on the long sword around his waist.

"You win, John."

Klaus sighed, no longer pretending to remain silent.

Annan nodded and opened his mouth slightly with a smile.

Gives Claus a general look at his blood-soaked tongue. Before he could see clearly, it quickly closed again.

Seeing this familiar scar, Klaus let go of the last fluke in his heart.

"……what do you want?"

Klaus asked in a low voice.

Annan just showed a simple and honest expression: "I know that you belong to His Royal Highness the Third Prince... Guess who I am?"

"...Are you from the eldest princess?"

Klaus asked back.

Annan smiled slightly.

"No, you guessed wrong."

he said in a low voice.

Annan looked directly at Claus who was a little nervous, and showed a gentle and harmless smile: "I am actually...

"The man of the skeleton."