Chapter 105 The Admirer of Annan Winter

"……Um?!"

Nefertari was shocked when he heard the words.

The first two secrets were completely unexpected to her.

But this is nothing compared to the shock that the third secret brought her.

——Annan Winter?

As a student of Seti the Bone Healer, she certainly knew the name.

And she knows more than ordinary people...

Annan is Archduke Ivan's favorite youngest son, the future Archduke Winter, and the real inventor of the internal combustion engine.

At the same time, he also has a close relationship with many righteous gods. "The Beloved in the Cup", "The Blessed One of the Red War", "The One Sheltered by Dice", "The Silencer", "The Monster That Leaves No Trace", and a candidate for saint recognized by the [Eye of Patience] , the "young dragon" that my grandmother loved most.

He is known as the most talented ritualist in history. Before the soul is purified, it has reached the highest realm of the ritualist.

This is absolutely impossible in theory.

Ritualists are a group of people who only rely on "wisdom", "persistence" and "luck" to obtain extraordinary power.

The ritual road is far more dangerous than the transcendent road...because the power they control is far higher than the level they are in. Any failure of the ceremony will bring irreparable costs. This leaves the ritualist without the cost of failure.

Generally speaking, the strength of ritualists depends on the highest level of ritual they can handle.

Even the highest-level ritualists-that is, ritualists who can repeat the "miracle of creation", do not mean that they will not fail when performing low-level rituals.

Whether it is being cursed to inflict bad luck, or shaking hands due to injury, or being influenced by someone's thinking...even the final arrival of the ritualist.

——The soul of a mortal cannot be burdened with an overburdened mystery.

The ritual road itself is not entirely a "mortal art". At least at the beginning of the development of this road, the soul of its practitioners was not so weak. It was later that the Arthurians discovered that this path could allow people without extraordinary talent to use extraordinary power... That's why ritualists appeared on a large scale.

During the Arthurian Empire, "ceremony" was even a compulsory test for official superhumans. Just like being good at using guns doesn't mean you don't need to practice fighting.

It was only later that the empire was destroyed. With the "Great Library of the Sky" falling into the deep sea and the demise of the elves, the ritualist lost the most orthodox inheritance. This directly led to the majority of ritualists, the inheritance became broken and full of loopholes.

As the son of the Grand Duke, Annan Lindong's education will of course be more complete than the knowledge of folk rituals.

But generally speaking, such a big man would rather take the path of transcendence than the path of ritual. They will only know some rituals that they use on a daily basis, and then some rituals that may be used against themselves...

Because ritual is the power without "failure" at all.

But Annan is different.

Before he became an extraordinary person, he had used the "creation" level grand ceremony several times.

Ritualists are not as distinct as superhumans—because they only have high-level mysterious knowledge, but "amateur ritualists" who lack knowledge of low-level common sense are not uncommon.

But the ceremony itself, there is a hierarchy.

Generally speaking, the level of occult rituals is divided according to the weight of occult knowledge as "key".

The heaviest knowledge is the very secret at the beginning of the world, as long as it is spoken, it will change the world. It is said that the reason why "mysterious knowledge" is "knowledge that is spoken and forgotten" and "knowledge that has power" is hidden in the secret of creation.

Below that is the "core knowledge" about the other world, which can also be called "other world level" knowledge. Whether it is the world beyond the dream world, the virtual world, or other worlds that are not directly connected to the "mist world", as long as the knowledge of the nature of the world is involved, its power is enough to destroy the reason of mortals.

For example, about the magic energy, the real sage's stone, the essence of dreams... and so on these secrets about the nature of the world,

It's not something that mortals can afford. Nefertari only knew the names of these things. Dare to learn more, not even to think about it.

Just knowing a few words about another world can make people keep falling into nightmares. You may even summon otherworldly objects in your dreams.

Further down is the knowledge before the Second Age. That is, knowledge about "history".

The mystical knowledge of those ancient gods is at this level, the highest level a mortal can bear. For example, the real names of the twelve true gods, and what they had done before the second era.

This level of knowledge is powerful just by reciting it. Can be used in rituals as a substitute for precious materials, and can also have higher-order effects. If mortals carry too much, the soul will be destroyed by the weight of knowledge.

For example, if mortals knew the real name of the old grandmother. He would often dream of winter blizzards, and when he woke up, the house was covered in ice and snow. He will hear more and more wolf howls that only he can hear, and once he leaves, he will not come back.

And if mortals know the secret about Suifu, they may burn the quilt themselves while they sleep, and their creativity will gradually increase. Occasionally, there will be scorch marks on the skin as if struck by a hot hammer... It may even burst into flames without warning, turning the whole person into ashes.

Only extraordinary people above the silver rank can hold this mystery for a long time.

After that, after the Second Age, it involves the knowledge of "truth". For example, the real names of new gods such as Zhi Ji, the real name of the Book of Truth, and the secrets of the ancient gods after the Second Age.

Knowledge of this level will at most only produce hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and hallucinations.

Even ordinary people, as long as they are mentally tough enough, can carry a considerable amount without worrying about whether their reason will be destroyed.

After the Second Age, the information below the truth is no longer "mysterious".

The last knowledge is the above-mentioned knowledge, which is a "pseudo-code" derived from the second understanding of mortals as a "custom". For example, secrets about funerals, secrets about blacksmiths, secrets about locksmiths, it sounds like a made-up story, or a strange custom somewhere.

Generally speaking, some of the "truth-level" knowledge has been modified intentionally or unintentionally. It is indeed practiced as a folk custom in many places... Occasionally strange phenomena occur.

Except for a few coincidences that "just meet the conditions of the ritual", most cases are just visual or auditory hallucinations.

——And Annan is obviously an ordinary person.

At most, he can only recognize the real name of the old grandmother...

But according to the rumors, he actually performed a "creation" level ceremony—

Since even Seti, the Bone Healer, once sighed to his students about Annan Rindong's ritual talent... presumably that should be a true story.

Nefertari had already graduated by then.

She just went back to see...

But even Seti's understanding and recognition of Nefertari, she is not even qualified to know the name of the ceremony.

Because as long as the name of this ritual is known, it is possible to deduce part of the mystery of creation from it. As a mortal soul, she will be severely damaged from it.

——But as a mortal Annan, how did he perform that ritual?

At that time, Nefertari wanted to ask such a rhetorical question.

But she was still cowardly and didn't dare to talk back.

However, since it is Annan Winter.

Not surprising then.

As a saint candidate who had been noticed by [Eye of Patience] two years ago.

It is normal for him to be able to purify the sporozoite mill;

He was able to remove the erosion of his subordinates and revive them, and it did not exceed Nefertari's cognition;

It is only natural for him to be the leader of the ancient organization "Hidden Eye".

It is reasonable that he can create a fake body and a fake name for himself;

Now that he has embarked on the path of transcendence... the spells that can deflect the silver level are not unexpected by Nefertari.

- That's right, it's all right.

He's that Annan Rindong...you know what?

Nefertari felt no fear in his heart.

With his knowledge of rituals, Annan Rinwon would have no trouble in any nightmare. I am afraid that anything he gets can be used to set up rituals... With a casual sentence of creation-level mysterious knowledge, he can directly kill a powerful enemy in a nightmare.

I see.

Then there is nothing to be afraid of.