Seeing the countless streams of data flowing downward in front of him, Annan clearly felt the familiar feeling of weightless falling gradually return.
It seemed that the stagnant air around him gradually melted.
Annan, who was suspended in the void, also began to fall gradually...
"...my dear, I want you to know: Some damned people really don't deserve this, but some people deserve to be damned."
Annan heard a somewhat familiar voice ringing in his ears.
He was a little surprised.
Because of that voice...
It seems to belong to His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince Albert
The next moment, Annan's consciousness completely fell into darkness.
"... Your Highness? Your Highness Annan?"
He heard a cautious voice ringing in his ear.
At that moment, Annan even thought that he did not enter the nightmare smoothly...
But he reacted quickly.
He realized that he seemed to be sitting on a chair—and the world in front of him became much larger.
No, not really.
—It is he who has become smaller.
"...Sorry, just fell asleep."
Annan subconsciously showed a tired expression and made a childish voice.
He noticed that he seemed to be staying in an extremely luxurious palace.
He wears fur that resembles a mink coat. This exotic fur presents an extremely pure white color and is embroidered with intricate silver patterns.
But the strange thing is that even though he was wearing such a thick coat... Annan didn't feel the heat.
Annan could clearly feel that the room temperature was around 278 degrees. Seeing the thin clothes of the maids walking around in the palace, Annan could immediately judge that it should be summer now.
It seemed that he had noticed the movement on Annan's side.
The two who were chatting not far away looked over.
One of them was a woman with long black hair and dark red pupils. She couldn't tell the exact age, and it would make sense to say that she was in her twenties, thirties, or forties. She was wearing a dark yellow gauze dress with black spots reminiscent of moth wings, with a calm expression, bright eyes, and a natural expression.
The person chatting with her was a young man who looked to be in his twenties.
He is nearly 1.8 meters tall, with deep blue pupils, a thin and well-proportioned figure, and a straight back. The long pure black hair hangs down to the waist, and it is extremely smooth and smooth, without any curled hair.
The young man's skin was as cold as jade and bloodless pure white. He was wearing clothes with the same style as Annan, but unlike Annan's side, he didn't even have a messy wolf fur on the neckline, and his body was clean, and there wasn't even a speck of dirt between his nails.
But what didn't match that handsome and flawless appearance was that he was frowning all the time, looking very serious. Probably because of frowning often, shallow wrinkles can be vaguely seen on the forehead.
"What's the matter, Annan?"
He frowned, walked over and asked plainly, "Are you tired?"
It's clearly a word of concern.
But in his tone, there was no twists and turns, calm to the point of almost indifference.
"His Royal Highness Dmitri."
The attendants behind Annan leaned their upper body slightly forward, put their hands on their chests, and respectfully saluted the young man in front of Annan.
… This is Dmitry Winter
So what he is using now... is the body of Annan Lindong when he was a child
Annan immediately realized the era background of this copy.
Based on Annan's fourteen-year-old height... This body is currently about nine or ten years old.
So the timeline should be four or five years ago...
Could it be what happened when Prince Albert and Cafney met Annan
So this...
Annan's eyes shifted to the lady who gave a calm and reliable impression.
This should be the eldest princess of the Noah Kingdom, Elizabeth Noah.
... It is really hard to see that she is already in her fifties.
"Yes, I'm a little tired."
But while Annan was thinking, he just stood up and bowed his head apologetically: "I'm sorry..."
"Go to rest when you are tired."
Dmitry replied calmly.
There was no emotion in his pupils or words. As if the whole person is made of ice.
He turned his head and asked Elizabeth plainly, "His Royal Highness, is there somewhere I can give Annan a rest. There are too many people here, and Annan's health has never been very good."
"some."
The eldest princess smiled lightly, and nodded gently to Annan.
Her voice was calm and generous, giving people a strong sense of comfort, which was in stark contrast to Dmitry: "You can let little Annan go to the garden from the side hall to rest. It was personally blessed by the Pope of the Silver Jue The flower fields have a good nourishing effect on the body and spirit."
After she finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at a young maid who was wearing a white short-sleeved maid outfit, with her fingers crossed in front of her.
"Marian, I'm sorry."
she said gently.
But the maid bowed solemnly and said, "Yes, Your Highness."
At this moment, an old man not far away stood up silently.
He had a skinny, bony build...with sunken cheeks and deep-set eyes. Even the hair is a little thinning. He was wearing pure black clothes like mourning clothes, without any variegated colors.
He stood silently behind Annan, bowed down respectfully and politely, and saluted the eldest princess silently.
Annan immediately recognized his identity.
—the very Merlin Manning he had been talking about last night.
The maid looked at the silent old man with some fear, walked up to Annan, looked at his immature face and couldn't help but smile.
She bowed and stretched out her hand to Annan, coaxing softly: "Please come with me, okay? His Highness Annan..."
Annan handed his hand to the maid without hesitation. Follow her to the side door where there are few people, and the old man follows quietly.
At this moment, the introduction task of this dungeon finally appeared in front of Annan's eyes:
"August 8, 1498.
"As the youngest son of the Duke of Winter, Annan Rinwinter, you followed your elder brother Dmitry to replace Ivan Rinwinter, the Grand Duke of Rinwinter, and went to the Kingdom of Noah to attend the old king's 80th birthday.
"This is the first friendly diplomatic action between the two countries since the Dukedom of Winter and the Kingdom of Noah entered into a period of peace. It marks that Winter and Noah will reopen formal business exchanges...
"-if everything goes well.
"It's unfortunate, and rightly so—someone wants to disrupt this hard-won peace.
"And it's very simple.
"Whether it's Annan, Dmitry, Elizabeth... or anyone else, as long as one person dies, this birthday party will become a grand funeral.
"And, the fuse of the next war.
"What's more, they didn't want to kill just one person.
"It's going to be a great hunting ritual—
"Perhaps it is too difficult for you who are only nine years old to stop all this. But only you can do it... because at this birthday banquet, only you who are young can move freely.
"Live. Destroy the plot. Keep more people alive—"
[In this nightmare, you are blessed by "Mr. Yao", and you will continue to recover your health and mana pool after leaving the battle]
[In this nightmare, you are blessed by the "Silver Jazz", and all magic judgments in the "Silver Jazz" field are +1]
[In this nightmare, you are blessed by the "Mysterious Lady", which will nullify the effects of all rituals on you]
[In this nightmare, you are blessed by the "grandmother" and get the disabled wizard level of your body]
[Main task: Shining Man]
Immediately, under this line of words, three sub-quests reappeared:
[Guarantee the survival of "Annan Cold Winter", "Dmitry Cold Winter", "Elizabeth Noah", "Caffney Noah"]
[Find and destroy key rituals]
[Do not reveal your identity]