The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 264: Nightmare: The Great Hunt

Looking at the countless data streams flowing rapidly downward in front of him, Annan clearly felt the familiar feeling of weightless falling gradually returning.

It was as if the stagnant air around him was gradually melting.

Annan, who was hanging in the void, also began to gradually fall...

"...Dear, I hope you know: some cursed people really don't deserve this suffering, but some people deserve to be cursed."

Annan heard a somewhat familiar voice ringing in his ears.

He was a little surprised.

Because of that voice...

It seems to belong to His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince Albert?

The next moment, Annan's consciousness completely fell into darkness.

"...Your Highness? His Highness Annan?"

He heard a cautious voice ringing in his ear.

At that moment, Annan even thought that he had not successfully entered the nightmare...

But he reacted quickly.

He noticed that he seemed to be sitting on a chair - and the world in front of him became much larger.

No, that's not the case.

——He became smaller.

"...Sorry, I just fell asleep."

Annan subconsciously showed a tired expression and made a childish voice.

He noticed that he seemed to be staying in an extremely luxurious palace.

He was wearing fur shaped like a mink coat. This strange fur presents an extremely pure white color and is embroidered with complex silver patterns.

But the strange thing is that even though he is wearing such heavy clothes... Annan doesn't feel hot.

Annan could clearly feel that the room temperature was about 27 or 8 degrees Celsius. Seeing the thin clothes of the maids walking around the palace, Annan could immediately tell that it was summer.

It seems that he noticed the movement on Annan's side.

The two people chatting not far away looked over.

One of them is a woman with long black hair and dark red pupils. She couldn't tell the specific age, but it would make sense to say he was in his twenties, thirties, or forties. She is wearing a dark yellow gauze dress with black spots that is reminiscent of moth wings. She has a calm expression, bright eyes, and a natural demeanor.

The person chatting with her was a young man who looked to be in his twenties.

He is nearly 1.8 meters tall, with deep blue pupils, a slim and well-proportioned figure, and a straight back. The long, pure black hair hangs down to her waist, and is styled extremely smooth and smooth, without even a single strand of hair sticking up.

The young man's skin is as cold and bloodless as pure white as jade. He was wearing clothes with the same style as Annan, but what was different from Annan was that not even the wolf hair on his collar was messy, his body was clean, and there wasn't even a trace of dirt between his fingernails.

But what didn’t match that handsome and flawless appearance was that he kept frowning and looking very serious. Maybe because I often frown, I can vaguely see shallow wrinkles on my forehead.

"What's the matter, Annan?"

He frowned, walked over and asked flatly: "Are you tired?"

It was clearly a word of concern.

But there was no trace of twists and turns in his tone, and he was calm to the point of being almost indifferent.

"Your Highness Dmitry."

The attendant behind Annan leaned forward slightly with his upper body, put his hand on his chest, and respectfully saluted the young man in front of Annan.

...Is this Dmitry Winter?

So what he is using now...is the body of Annan Coldong when he was a child?

Annan immediately realized the historical background of this copy.

Based on Annan's height at fourteen years old... this body is currently about nine or ten years old.

Then the timeline should be four or five years ago...

Could it be what happened when Prince Albert and Kafni met Annan?

Then this one...

Annan's eyes moved towards the lady who gave off a calm and reliable impression.

This should be Elizabeth Noah, the eldest princess of the Kingdom of Noah.

...It's really hard to tell that she is over fifty years old.

"Yes, I'm a little tired."

But when Annan's mind was spinning, he just stood up and lowered his head apologetically: "Sorry..."

"Go and rest when you are tired."

Dmitri replied calmly.

There was no emotion in his pupils or words. It was as if the whole person was made of ice.

He turned back and asked Elizabeth calmly: "Your Royal Highness, is there a place where Annan can take a break? There are too many people here, and Annan's health has never been good."

"Yes."

The eldest princess chuckled and nodded gently to Annan.

Her voice was calm and generous, giving people a strong sense of comfort, which was in sharp contrast to Dmitry: "You can let little Annan go to the garden from the side hall to have a rest. That was done by the Pope himself through Yinjue The blessed flower fields have a very nourishing effect on the body and spirit."

After she finished speaking, she turned back to look at a young maid wearing a white short-sleeved maid uniform, with her hands crossed in front of her.

"Marian, you're in trouble."

She said gently.

But the maid bowed solemnly and responded: "Yes, Your Highness."

At this moment, an old man not far away stood up silently.

He has a skinny figure... sunken cheeks and deep eye sockets. Even the hair is a little thinning. He wore pure black clothes like mourning clothes, without any color.

He stood silently behind Annan, bowed slowly and respectfully, and silently bowed to the eldest princess.

Annan immediately recognized his identity.

——It was the Merlin Manning he had been talking about last night.

The maid glanced at the silent old man with some fear, walked up to Annan, and couldn't help but smile when she looked at his young face.

She bowed and stretched out her hand to Annan, coaxing softly: "Please come with me, okay? Your Highness Annan..."

Annan did not hesitate and handed his hand to the maid. He followed her towards the side door where there were fewer people, while the old man followed quietly.

At this moment, the task of introducing this copy finally appeared in front of Annan’s eyes:

"August 8, 1498.

“As the youngest son of Grand Duke Winter, Annan Winter, you follow your brother Dmitri to replace Grand Duke Ivan Winter and go to the Kingdom of Noah to attend the old king’s eightieth birthday.

“This is the first friendly diplomatic action between the two countries since the Principality of Winter and the Kingdom of Noah entered a period of peace. It marks that the two countries will re-open formal business exchanges...

"—If all goes well. ~IndoMTL.com~ It is very unfortunate, and justifiably so, that someone wants to destroy this hard-won peace.

"And it's very simple.

"Whether it is Annan, Dmitry, Elizabeth... or anyone else, as long as one person dies, this birthday banquet will become a grand funeral.

"And, the trigger for the next war.

"What's more, they didn't want to kill just one person.

"This will be a great hunting ceremony——

"Perhaps it is too difficult for you who are only nine years old to stop all this. But only you can do it...because at this birthday party, only the young you can move freely.

"Live. Destroy the conspiracy. Let more people live——"

[In this nightmare, you are blessed by "Mr. Yao", and you will continue to recover your health and mana pool after leaving the battle]

[In this nightmare, you are blessed by the "Silver Sir", and all magical judgments in the "Silver Sir" field are +1]

[In this nightmare, you are blessed by the "mysterious lady", which invalidates the effects of all rituals on you]

[In this nightmare, you are blessed by "grandmother" and gain your own disabled wizard level]

[Main Mission: The Brilliant Man]

Immediately, below this line of words, three side tasks appeared again:

[Guarantee the survival of "Annan Winter", "Dmitry Winter", "Elizabeth Noah", and "Kafni Noah"].

【Find and destroy the key ritual】

【Do not reveal identity】