Chapter 209 The King of the Fallen
After hanging up the one-way video call, Annan frowned and shrank in his chair thinking.
No matter how you think about it, something doesn't feel right.
——If their purpose is just to get a lot of gold-rank superhumans, then they don't need to be so troublesome at all.
There is a high probability that they have already started to fight the curse cellar.
Then this also means that they have obtained the magic energy.
You just need to mass-produce and kill some Bronze-rank superhumans to get the "foundation" used to create nightmares.
Using the spell directly can multiply the customs clearance reward by dozens and hundreds of times. Once the customs clearance is completed, the bronze is full, the second time is successfully advanced to silver, the silver is fully filled again, and then the advanced gold is prepared——
Just provide the power of the curse. Curse Neng can definitely do this kind of thing easily... This can at least guide a large number of loyal men to the peak of silver.
There won't even be any danger.
Doesn't it taste good?
As for the Ultra North Brotherhood, it seems that its original purpose was to obtain something purified "beyond pure gold"...
Is this reasonable?
Their fundamental purpose should be "to prevent the shrinking Great Barrier from destroying their splendid life". Assassinating Annan, contacting the icebreaker, raising private soldiers, and even building a curse cellar, extracting curse energy, and communicating with the fallen are just "means" rather than "ends".
Those stupid nobles who are eager to keep and consolidate their power are indeed not smart people, and they are definitely willing to try any taboos - after all, if they don't move, they will burp.
Then it seems unreasonable to judge them with the taboos and IQ of ordinary people.
But this circle is too big, and it's not easy at all.
It is neither safe and controllable, nor labor-saving and fast enough.
How could those timid, short-sighted, and dazed idiots take such a path first?
"Exclude all the impossibility, then only the possibility remains..."
Annan muttered.
Then there is only one result left.
——At least one traitor was mixed into the power hierarchy of the Far North Brotherhood. He at least has the absolute right to speak to other aristocratic aides.
No, it doesn't seem accurate to call him a traitor...because he doesn't care what happens to the Duchy of Winter. So he is not on Annan's side either.
You know, even if those nobles are idiots, the "domestic brains" who give them ideas are definitely smart people.
Longjing Tea could immediately realize that something was wrong just by relying on a few words from the saltpeter ranch... Those aides must also see that the plan was not right.
But it is still running steadily.
That means that the identity of the person who proposed this plan may be more than one level higher than others. This will let others know that something is wrong and can't expressly object to it.
Even just the line of saltpeter ranch, which provides the blood of the devil, can know the outline of this plan. This means that the completion of this plan has reached the level of "it doesn't matter if it is leaked to partners".
- This is even more wrong.
On Annan's side, it is even more impossible to be assassinated by only two or three corrupted fish.
If they have already received "full gold",
Then it's not as simple as sending a few silver-level fallen people to assassinate Annan - it must be a group of twenty-five people composed of gold-level extraordinary people to directly push Shuangyu save...
The strength of the gold-rank superhuman and the golden-rank fallen person is not the same level at all.
Kaphne once said to Annan that the essence of the power of the superhuman is to transform the soul with a curse, while the essence of the power of the fallen is to transform the body with a curse.
Not to mention the damage caused by the unstable nature of the Fallen.
The real shortcoming of the Fallen Way is that they are still the "gaseous souls" of the Bronze Rank Transcendents.
One of the hallmarks of the fallen is that their souls are "like black smoke", while the souls of the gold-level superhumans are "resplendent as diamonds and bright as rainbows." This means that the demonized Fallen can't get much elemental power at all.
It is even less possible for them to sublime into gods - because in the sublimation ceremony, only souls can enter the light realm on the sky train.
- All this is because the quality of their souls is not enough.
And Annan knows more than Kafney.
For example... Annan learned that "elemental power" is not the original essential ability of this world. It only filled the world after the sage's stone was burnt by the Fuifu.
The sage's stone is the blood of the world of the "void", and its status is equivalent to the solid spell energy.
——That is to say, the true sage's stone is likely to be stolen by Suifu from the virtual world.
Before that, the soul that reached the position of "coloring" was only "noble".
If everyone can't use the power of elements, then the Ascension Road should always be inferior to the Fallen Road of the same period until the Ascension Ceremony is completed.
This made Annan think of the battle between the fairy and the devil...
Because the road of depravity is the "beast way" that transforms the body with curses - for a world full of curses, this may be the right path.
Only the Fallen Way is more effective and powerful than the Transcendent Way, so that the Fallen Way will have handed down value.
Otherwise, in these thousands or even tens of thousands of years of civilization history, it would have been eliminated long ago.
It is mentioned in "On the Half Mystery of Fate and Dice", "Up is a jump, and down is a step." This is the cryptic mention of the difference between the "Road of Ascension" and the "Road of Fall".
——That's why the sublimation ceremony is called "sublimation ceremony".
Because this is originally the "difference" that is exclusive to the path of sublimation.
It is precisely because people who know the sublimation ceremony are too easy to associate it with the sublimation road. That's why the high-ranking supernatural beings changed the ancient name "Road to Sublimation" to "Road to Supernatural", the purpose of which is to keep this secret.
No matter how Suifu got the Sage's Stone, the world is now full of elemental power. Only Path of Ascension can take full advantage of this ability... This is an epic version enhancement to Path of Ascension's "Dye" bit.
Annan immediately realized at that time that the righteous gods hoped to increase the number of "gods" through this "version enhancement" method.
He is too familiar with this kind of operation... By "enhancing" and "weakening" the player's behavioral tendencies, but the basic skills of numerical planning.
Because gods can only be born through the "Road of Ascension". When it comes to the dyeing stage, one can only wait for the birth of the book of truth... Before reaching the truth stage, the sublimator must be deflated all the time. And the birth of the book of truth is not regular.
Is this reasonable?
It's in the mint.
And the addition of the concept of "elemental power" enables the "powerful and pure soul" to truly become a power within reach.
Even if it is a dozen demons, it only takes two or three gold-level superhumans with sufficient souls to kill them without leaving behind.
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If the two brothers in the saltpeter ranch had not had the secret of creation, they would have been beaten by the saints for a second when they met... Of course, the saints were actually at the truth level.
However, it can also be seen that the Extreme North Brotherhood absolutely does not have a plurality of gold-level extraordinary people.
Because in the entire Principality of Winter, there are no wild gold-rank superhumans at all - the hand of winter is bound to the silver rank, and illegal silver-rank superhumans who try to continue to advance in the Principality of Winter will be captured, monitored, and controlled by the hand of winter. Detention, deportation.
The current Howling White Pagoda has not yet elected a new tower owner.
Then in addition to the storm's daughter Maria and the "unbalanced beauty" Vasika who can resist the golden order under special circumstances, only the old grandmother's Pope and the Melvin family are left in the golden order of winter. "God among men". The latter two are not the power directly belonging to the Winter family.
This was the weakest period for the Principality of Winter—if it wasn’t for the unknown ritual of inviting ancestors.
The Far North Brotherhood hasn't been killed yet, and it's only possible that it's because they are rookies.
Even if they have two golden ranks, they can come over to fight and re-divide their territory. If there are more than three, they will basically be able to enter the Shuangyu Province and put Annan and Ivan under house arrest, "relying on the emperor to make the princes".
Therefore, they have definitely not completed the "sufficient gold" experiment.
Rather, it was the person who proposed this experiment that restricted them... Otherwise, they would have already started mass-producing the silver army, who had already built the curse cellar.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly.
- He remembered another thing.
As the lord of the "northmost edge of the map", the Far North Brotherhood really doesn't have much money.
So how did they persuade the Fallen forces in Saltpeter Ranch and Nattashire to be loyal to them? According to the characters of these fallen people, they should come back and sell this group of partners and come to the Grand Duke for rewards.
Unless they want something else from them.
Considering this...
"...Could it be that in the world of the Fallen, there has already been a ruler of shadows?"
Annan whispered worriedly.
Able to cross borders and control all the Fallen.
The Far North Brotherhood is just a chess piece controlled by them - a chess piece used to produce "sufficient gold".
And their ultimate goal of getting [Sufficient Gold]... is obviously to break free from the road of depravity.
A person who can cross the border and control the fallen from Noah, the underground, and the cold winter from afar - who will it be?
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