The Righteous Player(s)

f strength and broke his right index finger.

Then, an extraordinarily blazing and devastating heat rose from his right arm, covering his surroundings completely.

The scene faded into darkness afterward.

This should be the memory of the female wizard named “Netti” when she died.

Annan made an inference.

At the next moment, another scene appeared in front of Annan’s eyes.

His perspective rose and became a bird’s-eye view similar to that of God.

A 26 years old female wizard with brown curly hair stood alone in the wilderness.

Her hair was tied up and draped over her chest from the left; her expression a little nervous.

In front of her was an altar with three platforms and three boxes on the altar.
Annan’s perspective was above the altar.

She reached out to one of the boxes.
On that box, there was an image of a woman with a peaceful and calm face.

In the next moment, as if she had understood something, she whispered,

“From now on, I will bear [Pain Loss].”

Annan followed her, chanting simultaneously.

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The next moment, the scene in front of him shattered.

When Annan recovered his senses, it was just in time to see the ring in his hand cracking.
A red radiance rose.
After coiling a few times in the air, it flew out to the southwest.

Annan vaguely heard a grateful voice.

“Thank you.”

After hearing that voice, Annan was stunned.

What’s this?

Soul?

Seeing this scene, Annan suddenly recalled-

Previously, after Salvatore absorbed the curse and the remaining curse transformed into a nightmare, changes took place on Gerald’s dead body.

So, what happens to the corpse when the curse bearer is taken away from them?

Doesn’t it mean that those Transcended killed by hunters will never rest in peace? They didn’t die but were imprisoned in the ring.
Their souls were used as hunter’s “fingerprint” in utilizing the curse.

This thought suddenly popped into Annan’s mind.

Before his eyes, the belated system prompts gradually appeared.

But Annan did not get the new curse prompt.

It was a line of blood-red, scribbled characters:

[The curse has been severed—The Hunter’s Prisoner]

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The next moment, the remaining two rings also burst.

But perhaps it was because the curse hadn’t been sucked up; what was vacated from the ring was not red light but black smoke similar to Gerald’s.

They also circled the room and then left.

Strange hearing invaded Annan’s ears as if they were creepy auditory hallucinations.
But they did not thank Annan but seemed to have a particular obsession,

“I’m going to kill him, Justin.
I’m going to kill him.”

“Mr.
Nottdamm, I’m sorry.”

Then, Annan finally got the new curse prompt:

[Curse: Pain Loss (Persistent Type).
Pain is weakened by 95%.]

The one-line description was straightforward and clean.

The cost and function were combined.
For Annan, this cost was almost non-existent.

Ordinary humans needed pain as an alert to danger.
For example, they felt pain when they were close to a fire or when a knife cut them.
That was to remind the body’s owner to “keep away from danger.”

But Annan was different.

He had lost negative emotions, but he could still live, fight, and study normally, relying on his “common sense.”

He was more like a machine driven by common sense and experience.

There was no need for the pain medium to alert Annan.
He believed that his understanding and judgment as a human being were keener and better than that.

He, of course, still could be regarded as a human being.