The Righteous Player(s)

Nicholas slowly opened his eyes from the chair.

In the green pupils of his calm lake, there is neither malice nor kindness, as gentle and compassionate as a god.

He moved his head to the left and right, slightly soothing the cervical spine that had been stiff from sitting still for a long time.

Nicholas breathed out gently, stretched his hand back across his long white hair, tied it into a ponytail, and took out a piece of rope from the table to tie it up. He stretched out his hand to push the instrument on the table aside, picked up a bottle of sky blue potion the size of a little finger from the reagent rack, and drank it in one go.

At this moment, a calm and depressed middle-aged male voice came from behind Nicholas:

"Where did you go?"

"Go out a little bit."

Nicholas reached out and wiped the corners of his mouth, then turned around and replied softly.

And behind him, there is no living person.

Only one plaster statue of the same height sits on the ground. The distressed expression on its face is reminiscent of a philosopher, with his eyes slightly closed thinking about something.

But the stone statue raised its head and glanced at Nicholas.

The dull middle-aged voice came from its mouth: "You drank the'soul healing elixir'. Is your soul hurt?"

"Well, I was hurt by Zhiji's ‘red’ and ‘yellow’. It’s not a big problem. Although he also took out the ‘blue’ pen, he didn’t use it to attack me."

Nicholas replied calmly: "My soul is orange. It is not a big problem to have a'red' attack."

"Why did you mess with Zhiji?"

The stone statue made a dull voice: "She still has a good temper."

"I saw Annan."

Nicholas smiled slightly, took out another tube of pale yellow oily reagent, and drank it before whispering, "Go and say hello to him."

"...Annan Winter?"

The stone statue paused for a while before continuing: "Has he come to Noah?"

"Well, just came. But unlike Master Shifu you told me before, his soul is not snow-colored... but rainbow-colored."

"That means his ceremony was successful."

Shifu said calmly: "But this has nothing to do with your work.

"Work with peace of mind and stop contacting Annan."

"But my job is to make poisonous dust, and Annan is the most famous alien species, right? I need some of his blood and soul fragments to make sure that poisonous dust is also effective against alien species."

"Don't think too much, your job is just to make poisonous dust, nothing more. Regardless of Annan's special nature, even if poisonous dust is effective on alien species, it is not an excuse for you to attack other alien species. Knives can't use people to try. Knife... you are close to taboo."

Shifu said flatly: "And, if you get his blood and soul, will it really only be used for experiments? Don't forget how your creator died. Don't forget how the inheritance of Hermes was cut off. .Don't underestimate the memory of the gods.

"--Don't try to touch Taboo."

"Okay, I see... I won't make the mistakes my father made."

Nicholas sighed helplessly: "So let's showdown, Master Shi. So what are you going to do with the poisonous dust? You let me make this thing, constantly changing the formula, and never telling me about yours. Purpose... This is to increase my workload for no reason.

"I need to know its purpose and purpose. This is a very reasonable need... You don't know the alchemy of the Hermetic School, but I do."

Hearing this, the stone statue behind him was silent for a long time.

Then the stone statue stood up and walked behind Nicholas.

"...Speaking of which, it's time."

Father Shi said in a deep voice, "Do you know how the elves perish?"

"Is it because of the curse?"

Nicholas fluently replied: "Using the curse as a transmission medium, extracting the power of the world itself as energy. It is an incomplete creative power... a limited degree of ‘the ability to do what you want.’

"What the curse can extract is the blood of the world. The energy of the curse can be restored naturally, but with the expansion of the elves and the scale of the use of the energy, it gradually weakens the barriers of the world and makes the world harmonious The other worlds gradually overlapped...so cursed by the world."

"Is that what you learned."

Shifu nodded, and said gently, "It's generally good. There is only one point that I need to correct.

"This world was originally colliding and overlapping with other worlds. Nightmares are not something unique to these epochs, and our world has many books of truth as the spine of the world, and Suifu has let us get it. The power of the element is the victim... Other worlds are even more difficult to fight against us.

"It doesn't matter whether the imaginary world, the dream world, or other worlds at the end of the dream world are the same...Only after the curse can weaken the barriers of our world, the accident of the'world collapse' will occasionally appear. , To permanently exile a creature in our world to another world. That is to say—"

"...In other words, without using the spell energy, creatures from other worlds will be exiled to us?"

Nicholas quickly realized what the stone father meant.

It's like a collision of two ships.

If it will inevitably cause damage to one party... then after the spell can be used completely, the misty world will gradually recover its vitality. Then, the creatures in the virtual world or the dream world may be exiled to this side by the broken world—just as the creatures here are exiled to other worlds.

For the world, this is undoubtedly a victory.

But for the tiny creatures living in the world, compared with "losing a few strangers forever", "terrorist creatures that descend from another world" is a terrifying disaster that is more related to their vital interests.

"It would be better if you could understand."

Father Shi glanced at Nicholas, stretched out his stone-like hand and patted him on the shoulder: "The dream world is relatively stable...but the virtual world has gradually begun to break in recent years. The scale of the current invasion is still relatively small, so The Red Knight and Ms. Silent could still stop them, but as the virtual world shattered, more and more virtual world creatures would fall into the dream world and the present world.

"But this may also be an opportunity for us... You know, the'True Sage's Stone' is the blood of the Void Realm."

"...That's why you wake me up?"

Nicholas looked complicated and whispered: "Because I inherited the memory and ability of my father?"

"Because he is the'second Hermes~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and you are the'second Nicholas'."

The stone father replied flatly, his tone remained unchanged, like a real stone statue: "Hermes was able to gather the power of the elements and artificially create the sage stone... You may also be able to take the invasion from the imaginary world The sage becomes the new sage stone. What we need is not the Hermes poison dust that can effectively kill all alien creatures, but a kind that can extract and refine the power of the corpses of the imaginary creatures. Portable consumables'.

"Since the imaginary creatures will inevitably fall into our place, what we have to do is not to think about how to reduce the impact and reduce the disaster... but whether this matter can be turned into a beneficial effect. In the end, the answer we give is- -can.

"If the wreckage of the imaginary creature can be made into something similar to the sage’s stone and fed back to the world through the magic cellar of the elves, the power of the elements flowing in the world can be further improved...maybe not just the golden rank in the future. As long as silver can ignite the elemental fire.

"Even, maybe... one day, we can completely disperse these **** mists. Let the earth bathe in the sun again."