Super Righteous Player-Chapter 1150 - 201 Sevenfold Echo

"So, that’s why I didn’t receive the main quest immediately after entering this nightmare..."

A flash of realization crossed Annan’s eyes.

It is impossible for a completely sealed nightmare to exist, one that allows entry but no exit. Its very principle does not support such a structure.

Every nightmare must have its exit.

And this exit is the "main quest" of the nightmare.

Every nightmare must have its main quest, and theoretically, it is possible to complete it. By completing the main quest and decrypting it 100%, the nightmare can be completely purified. At that point, one is bound to leave the nightmare... because the nightmare itself has already been disintegrated.

Just like a stacking game—a tower built by overlapping three blocks per layer; if one keeps removing blocks, there will eventually be a moment when the entire tower collapses.

Once the nightmare is completely purified, regardless of how many people or how much power remains in it, everything will be released. Those trapped in the nightmare will be freed, and the one who purifies the nightmare will gain all the power that constituted it.

If Annan’s guess is correct.

The main quest of this Otherworld-level nightmare probably requires that all the other seven nightmares first reach the pitch-black "Domain of Despair," then Annan’s part will truly begin.

In other words, everything he is experiencing now is just the "introduction phase" of the nightmare.

However, based on some coincidence or malice, this nightmare happens to be the type with "extremely long preparation time." It’s like a game claiming that players can use the ESC key to skip narrative dialogues in cutscenes, but can’t use ESC to skip animation scenes.

But its CGI is extremely long; by the time it ends and progresses to the dialogue phase, there are hardly a few lines left...

Annan is now stuck in the "CGI" phase.

That’s right.

The tormenting of the other seven people to absolute despair is just the prelude to Annan’s side of the quest.

By the time the nightmare truly begins, the other people might have already left, died in the nightmare, or still be tormented by despair... only then will the door of Annan’s room open, letting him out.

To let Annan permanently end this nightmare.

And by that time, Annan, tormented by prolonged "compassion," will inevitably become a tragic and merciless "Heavenly God."

This process is like...

Upon this thought, Annan’s pupils suddenly contracted: "The Seven Mirrors of the Celestial Chariot...?"

—The Celestial Chariot is the Seventh Daylight of light, and Light Born from the Mirror.

That means, to mold the Celestial Chariot, one must prepare mirrors that can give birth to it. Including Ingrid, these are the seven mirrors that allow the genuine Celestial Chariot to descend.

It is through the reflection from these mirrors that the new Celestial Chariot can be anchored in the present world—only then can Annan know what he must absolutely not do, what he must absolutely not touch.

Using another as a mirror, one can see one’s gains and losses.

And this nightmare, infected by the influence of the Worm, is like the inverted practice of this technique.

That deepest, darkest despair is definitely not a mirror, nor can it be considered light.

It’s a wail from the deepest depths of the abyss, the final cry of those in despair.

Amidst the endless wails, Annan, having lost the protection of the Heart of Winter, will inevitably one day... forget the warmth of that radiant glow, and his pure and sacred soul, possessing colorless white light, will also be stained with the tragic rainbow hue of despair.

Just like when Annan advanced to Gold, the arising turbulences of desire—

Annan can entirely become the new Creator God. Erasing all that exists and rebuilding everything. Molding everything unsatisfactory into the shape he desires...

But Annan is not satisfied with that level of "salvation."

He is determined to save the existing world in a "human" way. Maintaining the operation of the Path of Light through "Justice," not "Compassion."

It is not through the creation of an entirely new world, but the sudden destruction of the old world.

Now the purpose of this Otherworld-level nightmare is to push Annan back across that boundary line!

With seven layers of despair echoing together, they mold a cold and merciless "God of Pity". Equally ferrying all beings towards the realm of light—thus achieving ultimate salvation.

After everyone becomes a god, many will instantly collapse and die, but a few will certainly withstand that power and survive. Among those who survive, many gods will lose their divinity and die due to changes in their way of life.

In the end, when the world stabilizes—no mundane being will exist any longer. The world will become vast and eternal, and all its inhabitants will possess immortal bodies... They will then create a new world.

A "Realm of Gods" that only has gods.

—If Annan is not mistaken.

This must be some corrupted form of the Celestial Chariot.

"Isn’t this just like Madoka’s Witch of Salvation?"

Annan frowned: "I don’t want to become that..."

But Annan also knew.

It was because he harbored this "possibility" in his heart, that for a moment he considered "equally saving all people", and indeed he had the talent for it.

That’s why he was in this house.

Like seven mirrors gathering the purest light.

The sevenfold echo will transmit the deepest despair onto Annan.

The despair each person encountered will be conveyed to Annan through that image, turning into the despair of "pity".

If it were merely "sevenfold despair", it would achieve nothing.

But the key is, the person sitting in this room is Annan—he is the beneficiary of the "Mirror of the Celestial Chariot" ritual, and his final mirror, which also happens to be a non-existent mirror, is right in this nightmare!

Although Ingrid is not essential for Annan’s ritual, she is indeed related to Annan. Their relationship... the relationship of light and mirrors, is enough to make her a transfer station.

Able to forcefully transmit the despair and curses accumulated in this ritual onto Annan!

And Annan can do nothing.

Because they really come from seven different nightmares! This is a trap composed of eight nightmares—

—Annan finally understood everything.

Ingrid indeed obtained some forbidden knowledge from The Worm.

She thought that by entering this nightmare, she could take absolute initiative. But she clearly did not anticipate that the nightmare would turn out this way...

Because Ingrid never thought that The Worm she worshiped had also deceived her!

Because The Worm knew that once Ingrid entered the nightmare, Annan would definitely find a way to follow her in, and it must be him in person.

So it used Ingrid, making her a trap—as if feeding her lethal poison and then feeding her to Annan.

When Ingrid herself, along with the influence of "The Worm", exists in this nightmare simultaneously. This Otherworld-level nightmare is twisted into a corrupt ritual... specifically targeting Annan, who uses the "Seven Mirrors" to awaken power, a pollution ritual specifically for the Celestial Chariot!

Even from the beginning, It had planned it all—

From the time of the Second Era, that elf who wrote "Odes to the Celestial Chariot", returned safely from this Otherworld-level nightmare... The Worm was already plotting!

It was because someone returned safely from that nightmare, that Annan and Ingrid were not so cautious...

"The Worm" doesn’t even need to act personally.

—This scheme spanning past and future is enough to corrupt and debauch Annan, who has just acquired the Power of the Chariot, yet is still unascended!