[Nightmare has been purified.]
[Purify the nightmare with the specified identity. Evaluation ratings increased.]
[You have defeated “Dream Eater”. Evaluation ratings increased.]
[You have purified the nightmare upon your first entry. The evaluation ratings increased significantly.]
[Tragedy Writer acknowledges your accomplishment. The evaluation ratings increased significantly.]
[You have completed a powerful purification. The evaluation ratings increased significantly.]
[Comprehensive Evaluation — S]
[As the substitute walker, you’re given Shared Experience 18000 points, Perception+1.]
[The ritual executor (you) gets half of the experience reward.]
[The substitute walker gets dungeon instance clearance reward: Element (understanding) adaptability 5%]
[Hidden plot you have decrypted: 100%]
[You may receive the first stage reward (obtained when completion reaches 90%).]
[You may receive the second stage reward (obtained when completion reaches 100%).]
[Dungeon instance decryption rewards: Element (wisdom) awakening depth increased by 20%, element (understanding) awakening depth increased by 20%.]
[The substitute walker has not yet become a transcender, so the rewards of “element (wisdom) awakening depth increased by 20%” and “element (understanding) awakening depth increased by 20%” are transferred to the ritual executor (you).]
[The nightmare is terminated.]
[Due to the unique circumstances of the nightmare, you have acquired the holy light engravings of Tragedy Writer.]
[The Man in the Mirror is satisfied with your performance. You’re given 20 holy light engravings from the Man in the Mirror.]
[Current total engravings: 120 (Tragedy Writer) / 34 (Silver Sire) / 20 (the Man in the Mirror) / 8 (Mysterious Lady) / 6 (Silent Lady) / 4 (the Elegant Elder) /1 ( Bell Ringer Oik)]
The increase in holy light engravings was because the players had purified nightmares in various places before, including the underground world.
After the nightmares were purified, the holy light engravings would be rewarded.
Annan suddenly had a premonition.
As the number of players continued to increase, he might have an endless supply of holy light engravings in the future.
…I wonder if Silver Sire or Old Grandmother will get mad at me.
After all, the essence of holy light engraving was “equity certificate” — referring to those curses that flowed into the realm of deities after purifying nightmares. The fundamental owners of those curses were still the priests, who purified these nightmares. The leases of the curses were held until their death.
The deities would help them hold these curses, providing free services of altering the curses into the power the transcenders could use and making it seamless as if the transcenders possessed the cursed themselves.
They were classified as the priest’s [divine art ability], [permanent Ability], and [extra ability].
They could possess transcended strength, but they didn’t have to worry about the accumulated curses on their bodies.
In other words, those holding the holy light engravings could be regarded as a priest of a deity at any time.
However, not everyone could communicate with deities.
In fact…
The “prayers” of most people were not heard by the deities at all. That was because their will was too weak and disordered, the voice could not be conveyed to the deities without the blessings from the ritual.
Unless the nightmare was purified in a church or the like, people, who had not become priests, would not get holy light engravings after purifying the nightmare.
That was why Bishop Daryl was so polite to Annan at the very beginning.
That was because Annan, who held Silver Sireholy light engravings, could become the priest of Silver Sire at any time.
The ability to become a priest was much rarer than the ability to become a transcender.
The transcenders before the Third Age studied priesthood and ritualism simultaneously. It was just that human beings couldn’t easily become transcenders like elves, and it took a certain amount of energy to study the way of transcendence.
Later on, the three paths gradually diverged to enable the newcomers to focus on one path only without being distracted.
Thoroughly purifying nightmares would increase the deity’s power, while prayer and faith would not. Delineating the “territory where nightmares appear” was also the essence of the existence of the upright deities’ diocese. However, in the boundaries of the diocese, the nightmares that false deities personally participated in were transcended power that could be secretly taken away.
The difference was that upright deities had a systematic procedure, while the false deities were more hands-on. However, the holy light engravings issued by the false deities did not take a strict entry barrier like the upright deities’ churches. Generally speaking, if someone was pleasing to the eye, the false deities would give out holy light engravings casually. Perhaps, if they wanted to boost a person quickly, they could increase the person’s strength by investing in a large number of holy light engravings.
For example, the twenty engravings given to Annan by the Man in the Mirror.
Some transcenders didn’t have the talent of the priest and couldn’t communicate with the deities… After they purify the nightmare, those strong curses that couldn’t be absorbed were all taken away by the nearest upright deities.
Players certainly didn’t all have priest’s talent.
Those, who could take office as priests, were still a minority so far.
However, in terms of rules, players, who were summoned by the”Book of Divine Transporter” were treated as Annan’s summons from another world. In this case, even with Annan’s thick face, Twelve Upright deities would want to give goodies out for nothing. Instead, they would much prefer “paying wages” according to the standard.
Since the players were treated as summons, they would only be granted holy light engravings when Annan had given them out.
Otherwise, the holy light engravings would flow into Annan’s account by default. It was just like two companies were trading. All the money was directly transferred to the company, instead of being sent to the employees of this company one by one by another company.
The merit distribution was a bit rude and seemingly presumptuous.
From this point of view, Annan also realized that he seemed to have been regarded as an “equal” existence by the deities.
Of course, Annan was most surprised.
There were 120 Tragedy Writer’s holy light engravings…
In fact, He could take back the holy light engravings directly.
The flow of curses was default and automatic, while holy light engravings, being such significant items, had always been distributed manually.
Whether it was the upright deity distributing the engravings to churches or nightmare purifiers; or the false deity winning over cronies and gaining believers. The engravings were an important resource. Its essence was the power of the deity itself.
The power that could be exchanged with a holy light engraving was roughly equivalent to its actual value. After all, mortal beings had limited lifespans, so the engravings were not as valuable. During the novice period of priests, the spells and abilities that could be exchanged with holy light engravings were even slightly higher than the engraving’s value, serving as a means to ensure the priests’ survival.
Judging from this fact, it would be a shock for Tragedy Writer to see his pope being hammered to death.
The Tragedy Writer even gave Annan all the power used to create this nightmare!
Annan also realized that this kind of nightmare with more than a 100 purification count was most likely crafted by the deities. All the curses from the two mortals were not enough to support the “rewards”.
Holy light engravings were of course more valuable than experience.
Annan still remembered that when Old Bread Daryl’s holy light engravings materialized, even he could feel the unusual sacredness. Just by looking at it would feel a strong sense of dizziness.
That was the sign of an overflowing curse.
At that time, the holy light engravings on the Old Bread Daryl were more than 200.
Old Bread Daryl was most likely Silver Sire’s pope. He had saved up the engravings to reach that amount.
Seeing the densely accumulated holy light engravings on Annan, which came from “Tragedy Writer”, people who did not know would probably think that Annan was the cardinal-bishop or pope of Tragedy Writer.
Suddenly, a glimmering panel flashed before Annan’s eyes for no reason.
[The Venerated Skeleton is satisfied with your performance. You’re given 10 holy light engravings from the Venerated Skeleton.]
“What’s the matter with you?!”
Annan subconsciously blurted out.
Your tip doesn’t make sense!
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