[You have acquired the secret (complete) about the “grail”. Speaking in any forgotten language will reshape the physical body (you can revive any mortal below the Gold Rank, including yourself).]
[You have previously encountered this secret, and you possess Transcended Perception. Thus, you have gained additional information (by incorporating it into a ritual with the influence of any Dark Realm, you can transform it into a secret about “the night”; by incorporating it with the influence of any Mystery Realm, you can transform it into a secret about “mystery”).]
[You have obtained a complete secret of creation. Your mind can no longer carry any more weight. Your soul is overwhelmed (you can no longer obtain occult knowledge of “historical level” and above before you advance to Gold Rank or release this secret knowledge).]
Annan couldn’t help but exclaim, “What the hell!”
It never occurred to Annan that he would obtain a piece of “creation” level knowledge just by spectating the event.
The knowledge was even more complete than what Annan got from the Old Grandmother.
“The Man Against Himself” had a much lesser understanding of this secret than the Old Grandmother. Therefore, the power this knowledge possessed wasn’t as potent as the mere fragments of information about “winter” from the Old Grandmother.
Last time, when Annan summoned the Old Grandmother, he had passed out because he could barely bear the secret of “Austere-Winter”.
He had even triggered Winter Heart’s effect at that time.
After all, no matter how “the Man Against Himself” got the secret, it was conveyed through relay and dissemination.
On the other hand, the Old Grandmother was the ancient deity who personally experienced the beginning of the world’s creation.
She must have acquired the Austere-Winter’s clergy at that time.
The Old Grandmother’s firsthand “experience” was naturally at an entirely different level from the Man Against Himself’s understanding gained through secondhand “accounts.”
Accepting the knowledge given by the Old Grandmother was already too much for Annan’s soul to bear.
However, this allowed Annan to use the “Frostwhisper’s” language power to kill [Spider] Grover in Sporeggar Mill.
Although Annan couldn’t recall the knowledge, he could still vaguely see the faint remnants upon focusing his mind on it.
It was a desolate wilderness devoid of light and fire. The deep, ashen sky remained silent, while the earth impartially buried everything. Annan couldn’t gaze at the sky, nor could he look at the ground; even his lungs and heart seemed on the verge of freezing. Breathing became difficult, and there was a sense of tightness in his chest.
During that night, Annan had a strange nightmare.
He couldn’t remember the dream’s content, but his back, palms, and forehead were covered with a layer of frost when he woke up.
That was the trace of his sweat being frozen.
It was a feeling Annan had never experienced before.
Even the most ancient secrets, dating back to the Second Age and beyond, would be completely eradicated from one’s mind if consumed during the ritual.
The lips were the mouth of the bottle, and the words were the smoke that drifted out. What was consumed was the content in the bottle—the knowledge in the brain.
Annan looked deeply at the Sacrifice Saint through Lin Yiyi’s eyes.
“The Man Against Himself” seemed to sense Annan’s gaze.
He froze momentarily, looked around for a while, and then fixed his gaze on Lin Yiyi.
The young man smiled and nodded slightly.
He even looked polite.
Lin Yiyi suddenly panicked. Why did the saint suddenly nod to me?
Did he hear my thoughts? That doesn’t seem like the case…
Annan was also taken aback.
Can he see me directly through Lin Yiyi’s eyes?
Could there be any unusual reaction in the players’ eyes when I borrow their vision?
Or perhaps…
“Did Henry Worden sense that I have just acquired this occult knowledge?”
Speaking of which, Henry approached the Bloodhand Brothers because they held “false knowledge” and decided to come to recover it.
So when he nodded in a friendly manner towards Annan just now, it meant that he wouldn’t interfere further if Annan possessed the correct knowledge.
Did the saint come here to eliminate false knowledge?
“However, the power of upright deities is really outrageous…”
The upright deities didn’t need to be present.
Just the legends about them and the distorted rumors possessed transcended power at the elemental level — capable of instantly annihilating the living blood sea created by the sacred bone. That was at least the power in the magnitude of the “perfected elemental power”.
However, there was another problem.
How did Saint Henry know that the occult knowledge held by the Bloodhand Brothers was wrong and taken out of context?
Logically speaking, after forcing the Bloodhand Brothers to use this occult knowledge, they should have forgotten it.
Then, there should be no need for Henry to come back to life and kill them.
Looking at the proficiency of the Bloodhand Brothers in executing it, they seemed to have used this knowledge a long time ago. However, they still hadn’t forgotten it and used it normally a moment ago.
—Is there a way that allows the users to exert the secret of creation repeatedly?
Annan was interested.
However, since the Bloodhand Brothers didn’t unleash this secret immediately in the battle, this method should have limitations even if it existed.
“…But wait, how is it possible that a Silver Rank soul can hold an entire secret of creation? Wouldn’t there be insufficient storage?”
Annan complained, “How did I become a great ritualist previously? Well, it seems that if you can’t reach Gold Rank, you can’t even get to the end of the path of the ritualist.”
Sure enough, I must have some special ritualist equipment in my first playthrough…
Suppose we follow this logic.
“Henry might have…” Annan murmured.
Annan found the answer to his questions when he acquired this occult knowledge.
Mysterious Lady turned out to be the daughter of Grail-holding Lady… No wonder Mysterious Lady was also known as “the Soon-to-be Daughter”. Annan originally thought it was a description that the Mysterious Lady “was ubiquitous even she wasn’t around”.
However, it turned out that Mysterious Lady was “existent yet not existent” from the beginning. The “Night” gave her physical form, turning her from a baby into a maiden.
From this perspective, the power of the Silent Lady (also known as the Silence Lady, the Silent One, or the Muted and Eyeless Woman) should be far greater than that of the Mysterious Lady and the Grail-holding Lady because the power of both the Mysterious Lady and the Grail-holding Lady derived from her!
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