The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 6: Broken Mirror
"Huh..."
Seeing that he had silently killed three people with three consecutive attacks, Annan relaxed and let out a long sigh of relief.
Just now, Annan suddenly had a strong intuition in his heart - if he slashed with the fourth knife, he might die.
Although he knew that theoretically he would not die from frost damage, the strong palpitations in his heart still made Annan retract the idea of making a few more blows.
For the first time, he felt that the breath he exhaled was so cold, like the wind blowing from a cold storage. His chest was also cold, and the right hand holding the sword was so cold that he almost lost consciousness. The strong chill continued to spread from his wrist to his arm.
At this time, I felt a cold soreness in my shoulders and wrists.
Immediately, a strong itching sensation mixed with numbness surged in my chest.
"Cough...cough..."
Annan's body stiffened, he coughed twice, and felt a sharp pain in his chest.
But the pain, soreness, and itchiness mixed together seemed to have caused him to undergo a masochistic exercise. Annan couldn't help but feel the pain of being unable to move, but instead felt a strong sense of pleasure in his heart.
That is, his own rationality restrained him and told him "you have to take a rest", so that he could resist his desire to jump up and have fun and vomit blood all over the floor...
Annan immediately stopped where he was, began to take deep breaths to adjust, and tried to exhale all the cold air immersed in his lungs. After repeating it six or seven times, he felt some warmth return to his chest and his limbs gradually warmed up.
I always feel that this kind of pain is unusual.
To be on the safe side, he opened his own panel.
In the dungeon, attributes, professions and other things seem to be invisible. All Annan can see is his own health and erosion:
Health: 70%
Erosion degree: 4%
"This frost swordsmanship is a bit harmful to the body..."
Annan frowned slightly and suddenly gained a memory.
He himself is very confident. The body he is using now is not Annan's body, but John's.
John had not suffered any injuries before, but after he used Frost Sword Technique three times in a row, 30% of his health was suddenly deducted.
When he used Frost Sword Technique before, he obviously didn't pay any price...
He suddenly recalled the memory fragments he had seen before, belonging to the original body of "Annan"——
Obviously Xiao Annan only struck out one or two swords at a time, but he looked very tired. It's not like he lacks strength due to his young age, but it's a bit like what he looks like now...
It seems that Frost Sword Technique should have a built-in CD, which can only be used twice in a row at most, otherwise it will put a burden on the body.
"It is indeed the secret swordsmanship of the Duke family..."
Annan sighed with satisfaction.
According to general rules, the more burdensome a skill is, the more powerful it should be.
Don’t you see, Hatake’s lifelong enemy, the legendary Matt exchanged one for one, almost succeeded in exchange for one by relying on his unique skill of killing both of them.
"Annan"'s identity should probably be a direct descendant of Duke Winter.
This is the son of the Grand Duke!
Although I don’t know how many children the Duke has, I can be regarded as one of the heirs of the duchy. From now on, we can still look forward to the leisurely days of prosperity, wealth and wealth...
Annan exhaled a big breath of cold air again and then straightened up. One by one, he dragged the bodies of the three people he silently assassinated into the house.
It was just like the stealth assassination game he had played.
After killing someone, be sure to hide the body. Otherwise, killing people would basically be in vain.
It’s a pity that there are no convenient things like trash cans or wardrobes that can store many corpses...
So Annan thought for a moment and stuffed the three corpses under the quilt. Only the back of the head and two faces, which are close together, are exposed.
He specially selected the side that was not frozen and looked relatively intact and put it outside.
As long as no weirdos come into this room, it should be fine. The corpses of these three people should be hidden until the end of the instance.
...If you really meet the kind of pervert who dares to enter the room to take a closer look after seeing such a frightening scene, and even excitedly lifts the quilt to take a closer look, then Annan can't do anything.
After all, psychology is knowledge that is only useful to humans...
Annan waited for a while and found that even though he no longer breathed out air-conditioning and his pain was relieved, the health value that had dropped did not recover naturally.
He smashed his mouth in disappointment.
Can’t you breathe and regain blood...
Obviously his injuries seem to have recovered, but his health has not increased accordingly.
...Or is this internal injury because he was able to recover so quickly just in a "nightmare"?
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly and said nothing.
He wasted no more time. Seeing that his health had not recovered, he walked out directly, planning to carry out the next hunt.
Annan repeated this rhythm of hiding first and then backstabbing when they met, killing all the guards below the deck who were patrolling or resting.
Counting the three at the beginning, there are eleven people in total.
It sounds like a very arduous project, but under the premise that no one received any warning, and it seemed that all the guards had not entered the rank, it only delayed Annan for less than half an hour.
Although he is not sure that everyone killed by him is a traitor...
But in the final analysis, it is just a copy, just an illusory dream, a story that happened one day ago. In real history, perhaps the betrayers had successfully killed their master and fled with the wealth and secret treasures belonging to Don Juan.
If you can't tell which people are betrayers, you might as well kill them all.
By this time, Annan had realized that something was obviously wrong——
He noticed a detail that he had not noticed the previous week.
Why didn't he see a single servant or even a female worker on this ship?
This is obviously unreasonable. Don Juan is only thirteen or fourteen years old this year. Even if he is sent to a remote town to be a lord, it is impossible not to give him a single servant.
This is not decent at all...and they are bringing an old wizard with them. Who will take care of his daily life?
To say that it cannot carry so many servants, or that the servants are on other ships, is obviously nonsense. Annan saw many empty rooms, which were obviously servants' rooms - several people were crowded into a small space, and there were obvious traces of life, some coats, and even half a glass of unfinished fresh water.
Similarly, there is no one inside.
Are they all on deck? Are they all in the captain's cabin?
This is unlikely...
So after clearing away all the patrolling guards, Annan began to search each house carefully.
Finally, Annan found them in a room that was probably used to store domestic garbage and the stench could be smelled from outside the room.
——In the form of a corpse.
"...What is this?"
Annan frowned, a little surprised at his calm mood without any nausea or fear.
He shook his head and looked at them carefully.
These ordinary people dressed as servants were **** with ropes, hung upside down, and bled to death. It can be roughly judged from the traces that they were arrested first and then killed.
The blood on the ground has cooled down, but it has not completely dried up. It should have happened not long ago. The reason why you can't smell the smell of blood from the outside is just because there is fresh dirt on the crack of the door and the door handle outside, blocking it with a stronger smell.
But in the room, it seemed that it had been cleaned beforehand and there was no trace of dirt.
There were only half-dried blood stains and footprints deliberately stepping on the blood. The footprints were so densely packed that they seemed to have circled the middle of the room several times.
Annan looked carefully and finally found a detail in the center of the circle of footprints:
In the middle of the room, where the blood was the thickest, there was a tongue. Judging from the length and thickness, it seems, probably, maybe...beef tongue?
Annan carefully avoided the blood stains and walked closer to take a look.
He didn't dare to touch anything, he could only look at it from a distance. After looking at it for a long time, he discovered that there was a strange symbol embroidered on the cow tongue with black thread or something. Under the beef tongue, there is a very small mirror.
"...Huh?"
Suddenly, Annan was startled.
He recalled what happened last week when he was hacked to death by Klaus——
After he saw Klaus, he decisively launched an all-out sneak attack on him. But Klaus just looked at him with his mouth closed, and Annan was suddenly hit by his own attack.
It's like the damage was transferred...it's not like a rebound. Because "John" and Klaus were not of the same height, the blow he hit on Klaus's chest would have hit his own abdomen if it bounced back.
That's more like some kind of mapping...
At that time, because Captain Klaus did not know that Annan would not be killed by freezing damage, and seeing that he did not die immediately like the others, he began to mock his half-hearted frost sword skills.
At that moment, Annan vaguely saw another black rune that was symmetrical to this rune in Klaus's mouth.
——In other words, the same rune as the reflection in the mirror. ~IndoMTL.com~ The mirror does not reflect the runes on the cow tongue.
Because the runes on the cow's tongue are facing upwards, but the mirror is below the cow's tongue... This means that the mirror image of the runes on the cow's tongue is hidden on the "other side" that cannot be seen or exists in the mirror. .
If the mirror exists, then the mirror rune should be exactly the same as the rune in Klaus's mouth!
Annan suddenly felt his scalp numb.
He realized where Klaus’ strange abilities came from...
...Perhaps, this is the source of Klaus's ability to feed back his attacks!
Annan raised his long sword. But after thinking about it, he cautiously put the sword back.
He only has such a handy weapon...
He took out the long, exquisite dagger that belonged to Don Juan from his arms.
"I have never practiced throwing knives..."
Annan muttered, still standing outside the bloodstain.
He didn't know how to destroy this ritual, but it was best not to involve himself - he didn't dare to step on those footprints. Anyway, either smash the cow tongue out, smash the mirror, or string the cow tongue and the mirror together... Let’s try each one.
If that doesn't work, go out and search the bodies again. Search out the weapons of those traitors and smash them one by one.
With a distance of less than three meters, even a trap has to hit one.
Annan gestured with the dagger for a long time before throwing it out.
Very lucky... In other words, the dagger was also very good and did not let Annan do any extra work - Annan's first blow connected the cow tongue and the mirror.
While cutting the rune on the cow tongue in half, it also successfully shattered the weird mirror!