Not praying for ten strings

The Night Has Come, and kermesinus moon ascends in the sky.
Hoarse whispers flow at the street corners, and brass steam machines spew out bloody mist.
Your brain is singing a hymn, eyes are chanting a melody.
Skin cracks, and flesh buds swell.
Amidst the Mist, the wall of flesh that has devoured thousands of corpses wails endlessly—
"Weep not, our players don't bite, they just want to play with you."
Annan, the lone strategist, the top player, the savior of the mist-covered continent, the leader of the Thirteen Saints, the friend of the Twelve True Gods, the king of pioneers, "the Just", the Gatekeeper of the Fourth Calamity, the uncrowned deity, advised kindly.

Super Righteous Player

The young apprentices surrounding Bernadino clearly held no respect for him.


"After all, mere bad background or desperation in joining the Tower of Black Radiance as a teaching assistant should have been enough. Eventually, they would either become his peers or just strangers passing by.


Indeed, being an 'unnamed apprentice' was itself considered a job.


If being a teaching assistant could be considered a formal job, then an 'unnamed apprentice' could be seen as a 'temporary teaching assistant.' Although they had to undertake some relatively dangerous 'teaching missions,' they still got paid.


Moreover, because the teaching missions they undertook were dangerous, there were some additional allowances. Eventually, their income would even slightly surpass that of the teaching assistants.


The Tower of Black Radiance did indeed have some apprentices who were truly penniless, yet possessed a strong 'desire to ascend.'


Chapter 40 "Old Man" Bernadino