Super Righteous Player-Chapter 1158 - 207: About Isaac’s Story

...Ingrid, actually got eaten directly?

Annand was shocked.

He suddenly had an unhealthy thought—He somewhat wanted to go back to the previous level of the nightmare and watch how Ingrid was eaten with a video camera...

Isn’t it, just eaten raw?

Or not, aren’t you using utensils?

... Wait, that seems not quite right.

"Is this fate..."

Annan muttered softly.

It felt like he directly manipulated Ingrid’s fate. However, based on the actual experience, it seemed like he didn’t change anything?

Manipulated, but not completely.

Or perhaps not at all.

Because the final dice roll was the real decider of Ingrid’s fate. And that was simply Annan having good luck... or Ingrid having bad luck, to roll such good numbers.

Because in the previous dice roll, Annan exhausted all the "absolute values" he could use.

After all, he couldn’t just let Ingrid escape.

Anyway, in that event, Annan must stop Ingrid.

And the cost was, in the subsequent event cycles, Annan lost the possibility to control Ingrid’s fate.

...Actually, Annan hoped that an event would come up that would let the demon lord kill Ingrid directly. That would have been the best scenario, and once it appeared Annan would go all in.

Annan didn’t expect that before this event came up, he would get counter-killed by Ingrid...

Looking back now, should he have prevented a big success in the first event cycle? Would the demon lord have done this if there had only been one child?

That also sounds reasonable.

If he intended to train the child as a successor, then he would have to prevent Ingrid from bewitching his child’s mind. And the bloodline connection itself is a very deep connection. After his child grew up, it would be very easy for Ingrid to guide him over.

Of course, there’s another possibility.

That is, if Ingrid had a daughter, then he indeed would no longer need Ingrid...

However, according to Annan’s understanding of idol wizard spells, Ingrid shouldn’t die so easily.

That demon lord’s successor, as a mortal dared to devour Ingrid—not only that, but he even dared to touch Ingrid’s remaining limbs. This can be said to be courting death.

The components of "Ingrid" that he consumed would progress along the transplanted limbs he took over and proliferate. Like a conscious tumor, ultimately completely absorbing his original body.

A Gold-tier idol wizard can indeed achieve this extent.

But even if Ingrid is reborn from his body...she can’t return to the real world anymore.

Because by that time, her identity would no longer be "the Purifier entering the nightmare," but "the native who got the memory of the Purifier."

In such a case, Ingrid would be permanently exiled in this nightmare—a nightmare she can’t escape from the real world no matter how hard she tries, a gloomy world with barbarians who understand neither law nor morals, in perpetual darkness.

...This ending for her, Annan could accept.

Although he came to chase and kill Ingrid, exiling her to another world might be more effective than killing her. At least in this way, he wouldn’t have to worry about her resurrecting in some bizarre way.

Annan never doubted the strange resurrection capabilities of idol wizards.

Professor Gray could split into Professor Wolf, and the Mirror Men could even ascend to godhood through resurrection rituals. It wouldn’t be surprising if Ingrid had laid some groundwork in this aspect.

...However, he needs to learn from Ingrid’s experiences.

—Unless necessary, try not to alter the course of fate. Otherwise, in the final story, Annan would become helpless. freewebnoveℓ.com

"...Can I open the second story now?"

Annan raised his head and asked the silent green-robed Saint.

The person did not respond, instead stretching out an invisible hand to raise the second card. This angle was even better suited for Annan to see.

The main line emerged with words:

"...thus, Isaac finally realized the truth of the world. He felt sickened by what he had done.

"But he changed, yet the world did not. As the only lucid person in the whole world, the more aware he became, the more pain he suffered. The reason for his pain was that he was a good person.

"He had to make a choice — either abandon his conscience and begin hunting those young people; or forsake his reason and forget these memories. Or... give up life.

"...Of course, perhaps it is you who is making the choice for him."

[Roll a dice, if the dice shows an odd number, he will choose to maintain the status quo; if it’s an even number, he will try to forget everything; if the dice shows 1 or 20, he will commit suicide due to depression or get killed due to a mental daze]

[Based on your fated connection with Isaac, you will have a total of sixteen ’absolute points’ in this story, which can be used to move your dice value up or down by any unit]

...Why only sixteen points?

Annan shivered instantly.

Is my fate not as closely linked with Isaac as it is with Ingrid?

...Oh, it seems it is indeed so.

Annan quickly connected it to Ofelia’s situation:

"So to say, these three stories have fewer absolute points one after another? Simple, Difficult, Very Difficult?"

This logic sounds like standard-size, large-size, and super-size in a meow-like manner...

But it’s different from the situation on Ingrid’s side.

Actually, Annan didn’t know whether it was better to face Isaac’s situation or to evade it. Perhaps because Annan’s kindness was not that strong, he would tend to confront—but he didn’t know what Isaac thought.

Nevertheless, as long as it wasn’t 1 and 20.

Annan made up his mind, as long as it wasn’t 1 and 20, he wouldn’t alter this issue.

Saving as many fate points as possible for myself, waiting for "the final choice" or to save the situation, is more critical.

And the dice began to roll...and finally stopped at 17.

"Isaac, after all, chose to face reality. Because he thought escaping was foolish.

"---After all, this is just a nightmare. He thought so, but couldn’t convince himself.

"He began to introspectively examine the fears within himself... why exactly did he fear killing these enemies in the nightmare?

"He soon got the answer: because these people looked and felt like real humans, the sensation of killing them was exactly the same. It would have been fine if there had been legitimate reasons to kill enemies, but they had not done anything wrong; they were all innocents—if he continued to kill them, it would give Isaac delusions, corroding his rationale.

"Isaac realized his own despicableness: it was not because he was kind that he did not want to kill those young people in the nightmare. He was worried that if his personality became twisted from prolonged slaughter, then he might not be able to blend back into human society after leaving this nightmare.

"Because everything was too real. He could only rely on his rationale in this eternal twilight world without day and night.

"—Counting of the dead.

"If no one could be saved, then at least he would mark down those he killed; if he could not remember their faces and names, then at least he would count the number of ’enemies’ he killed.

"He began to etch numbers in his room after each slaughter, using four horizontal lines and one vertical line for every five people. But soon, these carvings filled every wall in his room.

"Every day he woke up, when he looked at these marks, his despair grew heavier.

"He felt the sin crawling up his spine.

"’Can I really wake from here one day?’ Isaac occasionally thought at dusk when he woke up, looking at the yet unsetting sun.

"He woke up at dusk every time.

"’Does this day really have an end? Or perhaps, am I already dead, and this is my personal hell?’ he occasionally thought as well."

"Even the Jade Record would feel despaired by this."

[So, will Isaac commit suicide to seek relief?]