Super Righteous Player-Chapter 1205 - 246 Divine Arts: Forgetting Old Wounds

Hearing Annan’s words, the fake smile on Professor Hui’s face finally disappeared completely.

The words Annan spoke truly hit Professor Hui’s most vulnerable spot deep inside—

As a "Grey" created by the Huijiang Church, all of Professor Hui’s powers came from the Huijiang Church. Whether it was his Elemental Power, his sublime false body... or the idol spellcraft he used when building the Grey Tower, and the many secrets he mastered.

"You can never bypass the mountain that is the Huijiang Church, everything you do is just wandering at the foothill."

Annan’s lips slightly curved up: "You think what you do is incredible, but everything is within the realm of the Huijiang Church, and as easy as flipping a hand for him; all the achievements and status you have gained today also come from the ’initial capability’ given by Huijiang Church, and you still don’t own anything that truly belongs to yourself; the path you walk, naturally, is also within the expectations and control of the Huijiang Church..."

"You are like a child who makes a fuss about running away from home... The furthest place you can think of, is just Little White’s doghouse."

"Even the absolute ’immortality’ that you pride yourself upon, also stems from your identity as a ’Grey’ which you are most ashamed and despise.

"Although you can transcend past and future, calculate the future from the past, just a step away from becoming a deity, and even play saints as if they’re in the palm of your hand..."

"But at your core, you are nothing more than a petulant child who can’t achieve anything."

"—A giant baby."

Annan said with a light smile.

Each word struck like a chisel and hammer, ruthlessly nailing into Professor Hui’s heart.

However, before Professor Hui could react.

Annan unfolded his own domain.

Dazzling and resplendent radiance burst forth from underneath his feet—the sacred light rewriting, permeating every object around.

Everyone except Annan was once again adorned with the three-piece Radiance Weapon, Radiance Wings, and Radiance Shield.

And almost simultaneously, Professor Hui snapped his second finger.

With the crisp echo, the "boy" composed of many geometric blocks reappeared behind him.

The "goddess" behind Annan also simultaneously emerged.

The splendid radiance and the Silent Grey—two starkly different domains brutally collided, the overlapping area sparking violently like electric welding.

Both their Elemental Awakening depths were at one hundred percent, and there were no restraining relationships between the elements.

Thus, they could only burn their own souls to exchange real power—

Annan’s pupils, from the depths, burst forth an intense light.

He stepped forward, raising his right hand high as if he clutched some lethal blade.

The goddess behind him also raised her right hand in complete unison.

Across from him, Professor Hui also didn’t hesitate to begin burning his soul. An increasingly silent and desperate atmosphere overflowed from him, with his feet appearing to melt dry ice, endlessly steaming with pure grey smoke.

And when he snapped his fingers, the right hand he raised; matched the action of the "boy" behind him holding a pocket watch.

But immediately after, the "boy" did more than just hold the pocket watch.

The "boy" and the Professor Hui in front of him raised their left hands synchronously, gestured the shape of a gun, and their mouths moved slightly, as if mimicking the sound of a gunshot.

"—Bang."

The sound didn’t come from his mouth but erupted beside Annan’s ear.

Rather than hearing it, it was more like "suddenly remembering" such a sound.

The next moment, Annan’s body violently suffered an invisible, unseen attack.

His heart instantly shattered, and a vortex-like grey blood hole appeared at the front and back of his chest. The wound wasn’t fresh with flowing blood, but seemed many years old, turned into a scar that was hard to heal.

Enhanced by the sacred domain, Annan immediately "understood"—this was the highest-level curse Divine Arts of the Huijiang Church, "Forgotten Old Wounds".

Under the most proper conditions for performing the spell, not only a complex ritual is required, the caster must be older than the recipient, must master the silver-level idol spellcraft, and acquire an "already yellowed old photograph" of the other person.

Afterward, this Divine Arts would curse the contents of the old photo, inflicting a "non-fatal" injury. Following that, the old photo would appear as if it was photoshopped, really showing this damage—and synchronously, the owner of the photo, regardless of the distance, would also sustain such an old wound.

In terms of causality, it is deemed "the caster inflicted such an injury on the recipient back then." It’s just that he finally "remembered it" now."

The timing of the old injuries is consistent with when the photo was taken that year. And since it’s an "old injury that was obtained a long time ago"; therefore, till today, all the "personal abilities" one has acquired are unable to restore it.

If the Pope of the Huijiang Church used this Divine Art, he could even cripple a Gold-rank Transcendent directly. Severing an arm, a leg, or even an eye—and the opponent would not be able to heal on their own power.

However, to interfere with a Gold-rank Transcendent, one must use an ability of the same rank. This means that a Gold-rank Transcendent cursed by this ritual must find a Gold-rank healer to remove the curse.

Of course... the moment the curse is cast, it also means that a close connection is established between the two. With the perceptual abilities of a Gold-rank, the caster can be pursued to the ends of the earth.

But Professor Grey did not perform any ritual at all.

He simply gestured with his hands like a gun, and directly inflicted severe damage on Annan—causing Annan’s heart to crack instantaneously, as if struck by a bullet.

This is because, fundamentally, he is on the same level as the Huijiang Church!

Although he is only Gold-rank, this power belongs to "the divine"!

"You cheated. But so what?"

Annan sneered, "Do you think this can—kill me?"

With the deployment of his sublime false body, such an attack could not endanger his life at all.

The damaged parts of Annan’s body were immediately filled with omnipresent radiance.

And Annan simultaneously swung his right arm.

This was the well-hidden [Brilliant Sword]!

During its charging phase, it can absorb nearly eighty percent of damage—it was thanks to this reduction that Annan was not killed by Professor Grey’s sneak attack.

Professor Grey once again opened the Wall of Ash.

He stood in his memories... This defense was originally impenetrable, because one cannot sever their own memories.

But this time, the thin curtain was ripped apart by a brilliant sword light in one strike!

As Annan’s domain further expanded, the sparks between the two grew even more intense.

"Are you surprised?"

Annan manipulated his sublime false body, raising the sword of light and slashing at Professor Grey again.

He sneered, "Can’t you understand... why I can hit you?"

Professor Grey’s self-reflecting spell was instantly torn apart under the Elemental Sword, and the spell he used to dodge was intercepted and automatically countered by the Radiance domain which transmuted into the [Understanding] form for the first time.

Behind Professor Grey, the "young man" could only, in desperation, lift his pocket watch to block Annan’s sword light.

The blade heavily struck the pocket watch, leaving a deep mark.

And Professor Grey covered his chest, emitting a piercing scream.

With his scream, the Ashen domain was instantly broken.

"Why—"

Professor Grey had just started to shout when he saw Annan raise his left hand.

Simultaneously, the radiant goddess behind Annan also lifted a shield with a notch, shielding Annan behind the shield.

Seeing the glimmering light from the notch in the shield, Professor Grey immediately shut his mouth.

With the sound of teeth clacking from biting hard, he once again unfolded the Ashen domain.

As expected, a flow of light surged from that hole.

But this time, Professor Grey’s Wall of Ash easily blocked it, halving it and reflecting it back.

However, it was purely elemental light, devoid of any other Elemental Power. This allowed the goddess behind Annan to easily block it.

And in the moment Professor Grey relaxed.

He heard a distinctly clear voice from behind that shining shield.

"Edict..."

"—[Dissolve]."