Super Righteous Player-Chapter 1260 - 291: The Inevitable Has Arrived (5100)_2

Both options are extremely dangerous.

The Winter Principality is actually a unique case—because only the Winter family has been divinely ordained as bloodline inheritors by the True God. Through this arrangement, the True God bypasses the Chrono-Law rituals and directly intervenes in the governance of mortal society.

Even if Annan now initiated a massive purge, executing all Winter nobles and their interest groups wholesale, there wouldn’t be any resistance. But doing so would only result in greater chaos.

Currently, the triad oversight system of the Church, the Winter’s Hand, and the Old Grandmother is still functioning properly. During this period when the Winter Principality’s economy is just starting to recover, the primary contradiction that needs addressing is solving the problem of residents’ hunger and resource shortages.

What Annan has done is to replace the senior officials and key personnel of the Winter’s Hand with people loyal to himself, thereby ensuring it cannot be bribed—after all, Annan can share any intelligence that players uncover.

As for other aspects, since he lacks understanding, he won’t intervene. Just as he delegated authority to Dmitry, now he also entrusts power to the nobles and ministers.

Even though Annan has now regained the memories of Black Annan, he still lacks an understanding of the Winter Principality’s lower-class populace—he has never had formal and comprehensive contact with them. He also doesn’t fully grasp the various rules, traditions, and customs of the Winter Principality... After all, as the youngest child of the Winter family, he is still not of age.

In every situation, Annan has been the one who is "deferred to" and "protected."

Consider this: in the Winter Principality where drinking is a way of life, Annan has never even touched real alcohol!

Regardless of gender, whether human or werewolf, and regardless of social status—be it farmers, military families, young noble heirs, or even his sister Maria—all of them were accustomed to drinking at Annan’s age.

Perhaps it’s because Annan carries a destiny that is unbearably heavy.

From the very beginning, he has been far removed from the term "ordinary." And after Annan’s ascension, he will drift even further away... freёweɓnovel.com

Since that’s the case... the only thing Annan can do is refrain from making hasty decisions for others or meddling with their lives.

The current Annan, as the Grand Duke under the augmentation of the Old Grandmother, need only say a word or raise a hand, and he could end the lives of almost anyone without paying any price.

But after Annan’s ascension, the "authority" he wields will further expand. The power of a mortal Grand Duke cannot possibly compare to the might of a god.

If he gets accustomed to oppressing others with force now, casually robbing them of things like life, faith, desire, or anything else, then after becoming a god, he would turn into the kind of existence Annan once despised the most.

—He would become one of his "mirrors."

Indeed.

Although Annan, up until now, has never explicitly declared "what kind of existence I want to become," his desires are innately sparse, and his goals in life are unclear... But what he does know is, "I absolutely will not become that kind of person."

When he ascends with the Heart of Justice in the future, Annan’s authority will encompass "Justice," and his domain of governance will extend to the entire world. When the celestial chariot officially launches, enabling swift travel between worlds, he might even influence other realms.

This power is not meant to make Annan more noble than others, nor is it for him to kill or control at will, or to recklessly enact his dominance and rage across an era—

Unlike Annan’s mirrors.

His strength, his authority, his Angel Envoys... all of them, always and forever, exist solely to "make others happier."

Annan is confident this is a path his past self would never deny, and one his future self would never regret—

Although sacred relics cannot constrain Annan, as his identity shifts, Annan now begins to restrain himself. He begins to meticulously monitor his every move... reflecting on whether his recent actions were based on fairness, logic, or merely prompted by emotion or personal preferences.

Like a "tyrant," like a "madman" who remains clear-headed while shackling himself with numerous chains and manacles. He restricts his own actions with reason and morality, just as he did before his transmigration.

—Yet unlike the often melancholic and uncertain Annan of the past.

The current Annan does not view this self-restraint as an error—

Unlike the path of most gods, Annan does not intend to abandon his humanity and focus solely on matters within his domain.

He will firmly hold onto his humanity.

To have humanity means he can get angry, feel sorrow, and empathize. He can make the wrong judgments, and he can act on momentary whims.

He will be someone prone to mistakes, rather than a god who is forever flawless.

And yet this flexible, changeable path... might be better suited for "Justice" and "Hope."

But meanwhile, Annan will also oversee this freedom of humanity from another perspective to ensure it does not lead to misguided choices or unnecessary harm to others.

—In order to prevent the brilliance of the celestial chariot from falling to ruin, Annan has already resolved to give his utmost for this cause.

Humanity and divinity, freedom and correctness... he wants them all.

After clarifying his path.

It felt as though Annan had broken through some invisible barrier—

He very clearly sensed the celestial chariot’s call.

If Annan held the ascension ceremony now, he could immediately complete his apotheosis.