Super Righteous Player-Chapter 1155 - 204: Light within Shadows, Shadows within Light (Two in One)_3
Chapter 1155: Chapter 204: Light within Shadows, Shadows within Light (Two in One)_3
Once their target enters the safe house, they will try to return to their original positions. Any enemies blocking their path will be killed, but if approached from behind (if not burned to death by the lava), they will be ignored.
Once the mechanism is understood, it becomes quite simple to manipulate.
By having one person pick up food or water and then purposefully wait in place, they could actively lure a Lava Creature to kill.
Even if the players were divided into several smaller teams, each team exceeding eight people, they basically could, with one round of concentrated fire, instantly kill the less powerful Lava Creatures; for the slightly more powerful ones, they would shake them off while running away, and once twenty-five players gathered, it would only take two or three rounds of concentrated fire to defeat the enemy.
Before long, the players had killed over eighty Lava Creatures—in less than half a day.
By that time, the behavioral logic of the Lava Creatures suddenly reversed—any players carrying food and water within a certain distance would continuously cause nearby Lava Creatures to flee from them. This continued until the players used up their food and water, then they would immediately stop in place.
The rest of the mechanisms remained the same—they would attack all enemies blocking their path, except other Lava Creatures.
Thus, the "running game" became the much harder "hunting game", with the difficulty level more than tripled.
But it was just another half-night... The players easily defeated the remaining nineteen Lava Creatures and called forth a Lava Demon.
Unlike its huge size would suggest—the BOSS was surprisingly weak, with only two mechanics. One was that entering the lava allowed it to rapidly regenerate health, and the other was that attacking caused a collapse of the terrain within a range.
If challenging it single-handedly, it would certainly be a desperate battle.
...However, with twenty-five players, a few rounds of concentrated fire quickly defeated it. They weren’t even sure if there were any more mechanics.
After clearing the level, they were directly transported out of the instance.
The only thing that made Annan somewhat curious was Kafney.
As someone who had completely transformed into a shadow demon, she should have been in extreme pain in the "White World" where sunlight was intense, just like a Flame Demon active in water, or a water fairy in Lava World.
She indeed could re-enter this world once again.
But it seemed nothing was different...
However, Annan soon realized—
If there was something different about Kafney.
That must be... her complex love for Annan.
A complicated emotion between lovers, between siblings, between father and daughter, between mother and son, between a deity and a follower, between a teacher and a student.
If one must describe this emotion...
Then it must be, [Light].
—Annan was Kafney’s light.
The light that illuminated her dark world, the light that could fill her entire world... something she absolutely could not lose at any cost.
Then Annan remembered the content in that book, "Odes to the Celestial Chariot."
[I gaze at the sun, yet tears are all I shed]
[My soul is firewood, this love is the fire; My soul is scorched by the fire, rising like smoke; Embracing the sun, like a moth drawn to the light]
[That is the endlessly burning love, the third echo resonating from the depths of the sun]
"...No need for the Heart of Benevolence, the Key of Truth. Love can also guide mortals upwards..."
Annan muttered softly.
He finally understood.
Why it was Kafney who entered this world.
Although Kafney is female, she was not playing the role of "Eternal Maiden." Instead, she was the "madwoman with a lover"—
Annan in "another world" was that lover!
It were because "Annan left her world," and she the "mortal who sheds tears when gazing at the sun and can never ascend," now had the possibility of ascension because of "love"—since as a fallen one, she indeed could not ascend by herself!
This ascension wasn’t the Sublime Ritual of the Mist Realm. It was probably just akin to clearing a "nightmare" instance.
But for Kafney, clearing the White World process.
Was the ritual that transformed Annan into the "Eternal Maiden!"
—Yes!
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The power originally belonging to "Celestial Chariot" turned into The Worm, the reflection of light in the mirror had also become the echo of despair from the depths of the abyss.
If this is a reversed world—
—Then the Madman and the Eternal Maiden should also be mirror images.
That means, here... Annan is the "Eternal Maiden"!
Black, gray, yellow—
Indeed, three worlds have fallen into despair...
But...
Blue, red, green—
Three worlds still harbor hope.
Plus, the final neutral ritual used to anchor Annan as the "Eternal Maiden."
It does not lean towards hope, nor towards despair.
The final choice, then, was given to Annan by Kafney.
—Click.
At that moment.
Annan clearly heard, the "prison door" confining him, finally made the sound of opening.
