Skeleton King

When Alt saw Ace, the corners of Ace's mouth were forced to twitch, and he didn't know if it was hurt or he was smiling at him.

The knight of the Royal Guards took Arter to the dungeon door and gave him another push.Alter's injury was not serious in the first place, and now he couldn't stand still, and he sat down on the ground directly.

The knights of the Royal Knights sent Art to him, closed the door of the dungeon and left.

The dungeon of the Finger Palace is not big, the floor is covered with clean straw, and there is a toilet in the corner.The four sides of the dungeon are surrounded by stone walls, and there is a small movable window on the door, which can be opened from the outside, and is usually used to deliver bread and water.

There is a small hole above the stone wall on the right.Light golden sunlight appeared in the dungeon through the small hole, illuminating an area as large as a copper coin, but telling the three people in the dungeon that it was already dawn.

Bill picked the cleanest straw from the dungeon and made a straw pillow.

Ace draped straw pillows against the wall and leaned against them.Ace wasn't surprised to see Alter appear in the dungeon, but asked with concern: "Alter, are you injured?"

Alter was so rare that he ignored Ace. He sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes and meditated.

Ace was not annoyed, he counted the number of straws in the dungeon to himself, pretending it was counting the stars.

Art didn't open his eyes again until the small window on the door was opened and lunch was delivered.

Seeing that Alter had absorbed the experience of this battle, Ace asked with a cheerful expression: "Alter, what do you think about fighting against the Juggernaut?"

Alter looked at Ace helplessly. He really couldn't do anything about Ace's mentality of being able to entertain himself as a prisoner, and said, "The Golden Lion Sword Master is very strong."

Ace sighed, and said: "Sikes told me that the Golden Lion Juggernaut may be the most powerful Juggernaut on the mainland. He has been to the Magic Island before and fought against almost all the Juggernauts on the Magic Island at that time. Humans can defeat him. But later Heinrich Richter broke through to the Juggernaut and achieved a complete victory. We have no way of knowing which of the two is stronger."

"Really?" Arthur murmured.

Alter subconsciously wanted to stroke his epee, and then remembered that his epee had been taken away by the Golden Lion Sword Master before the strap was brought to the dungeon.

Alter looked at Ace and said, "My lord, you are careless." If Ace hadn't been caught by Princess Muse in the tower, none of them would have appeared here.

Ace twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Let's not say it's me, even if all the mages on the magic island are here, they can't escape the forbidden magic circle."

All these things have to start from last night. After the blood moon came, the words of Princess Muse made Ace feel bad.Although Ace can escape the tower by himself without relying on other people, it takes a longer stalemate, and Ace has no way to stop Princess Muse's mouth.

Ace has never been one to show off.

Because Bill is Ace's contract lich, unless he is making star potions in Evernight City, he will always be by Ace's side.

When Princess Muse was running up the tower, Ace asked Bill to stop Princess Muse, and it was best to capture her.At that time, with Princess Muse in hand, not to mention leaving the Finger Empire, it is not impossible to stop the war between the two empires.

There is not even a member of the Finger family in the Finger Empire, who are those lords and knights fighting for?

The crisis is gone.

It's a pity that until Ace realized something was wrong and opened the gate of the dead world without any cover, he didn't stop the opening of the forbidden magic circle.

Forbidden magic circle, as the name suggests, no one or any monster can use magic in the magic circle.

Without magic, Ace is only a third-level swordsman, and Bill is an ordinary person, so he is naturally no match for Princess Muse.Even because of the existence of the forbidden magic circle, the contract between Ace and Bill has been weakened a lot.If it weren't for the contract signed by Ace with the soul of the little necromancer sea conceived and raised Bill, it would not be impossible for this contract to disappear completely.

Thinking of this, Ace looked at Bill suspiciously, "Have you tried your best to stop Princess Muse?"

"Naturally." Bill said lightly: "No one will know that there is a forbidden magic circle on the top of the tower." Bill showed a thoughtful expression again, "Such a large-scale forbidden magic circle covers the entire Finger Palace, and it seems that it has not yet arrived. The limit cannot be achieved by the Finger Empire itself."

Ace deduced: "It was jointly set up by Magic Island and Skeleton King. The full activation of the Forbidden Magic Array should be able to radiate more than half of the Finger Empire."

Bill and Alt looked at Ace in surprise.

Ace explained to them, "Before the forbidden magic circle was opened, my bone staff had a reaction with the tower." Ace's voice was a bit bitter, "That is not an ordinary tower at all, and the roof is not an altar. It should have been there Skeleton King's magic tower."

"Damn it." Ace thought bitterly. In addition to the dragon egg and the bone staff, the legacy left by the Skeleton King to Ace a long time ago also included the Skeleton King's magic tower, the palace in the center of the Necromancer Sea, and the Necromancer. Skeletron's Necropolis in Teland Shores.

The Magic Tower is the place where the Skeleton King meditated on magic in his early years; the palace in the center of the Necromancer Sea must be at least close to the wizard to go; the Skeleton King cemetery on the coast of the Netherlands, where Ace can only guard and is not eligible to change.

When Ace first got the Skeleton King's inheritance, he wanted to go to the Skeleton King's magic tower, and practicing there would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.According to the map left by the Skeleton King, Ke Ace deduced that the magic tower was in the Finger Empire, so he had no choice but to give up.

By the time Ace has the strength to come to the Finger Empire, he already has several big cities in the dead world, and the Skeleton King's magic tower is no longer worth his trouble to find.How could Ace have imagined that a mere magic tower could hide such a big secret.

Even the Skeleton King would never have imagined that the inheritance he left to his heir would one day ruin his heir.

If Ace reaches the top of the magic tower ahead of time and takes full control of the magic tower, then it is hard to say who will open and close the forbidden magic circle.

"So that's how it is." Bill has been in the world of the dead for several years, and Ace is the heir of the Skeleton King. He also has a little understanding of the Skeleton King's deeds.What's more, the cemetery of the Skeleton King is on the coast of the Netherlands, so close to the magic island, it is impossible for the magic island to be unaware. "I guess, the Skeleton King has long been connected with the magic island, but why did they jointly build the Forbidden Magic Array for the Finger Empire?"

Ace shook his head and said, "You're wrong. The Magic Tower first existed before the Finger Empire. The Finger Empire has only been established for more than 800 years, and the Magic Tower has a much longer history than them." Ace pointed his finger He knocked on the straw-covered ground, frowned, and said, "The question now is why Magic Island helped the Finger Empire hide this secret, and let the Finger royal family control the forbidden magic circle."

The three people in the dungeon were silent.

They all thought about Princess Muse declaring war on the Pansy Empire. Did the Finger Empire get the support of Magic Island?

This guess is really astonishing, no one dares to think deeply.

No one can imagine how many high-level mages, high-level swordsmen, and even holy ranks there are on Magic Island.Magic Island is even called the third country on this continent.If the magic island helps the Finger Empire, how much chips will be added to the Finger Empire, and the balance of victory in this war will lean towards the Finger Empire.

No matter what Ace's experience is, in the eyes of the world, they all came from the Pansy Empire. Thinking of that prosperous country, one day they will be trampled by cavalry and burned by fire, they are naturally in a bad mood.

At this moment, there was an unusual noise outside the dungeon, and a knight of the Golden Lion Knights opened the door of the dungeon—because the dungeon where Ace and the others were held was in a special location, there were no other jailers here, and they were all knights of the Golden Lion Knights Part-time caretaker's.

The knight in golden armor looked at Ace and said, "His Royal Highness wants to see you."

It's just that they haven't seen each other for most of the day, but the identities of Ace and Princess Muse have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Before dawn, Ace was still a distinguished guest of Princess Muse, the most rumored guest of Princess Muse, and the Duke who was most likely to marry Princess Muse.

It will be dawn, and the dream will wake up.Ace became the prisoner of Princess Muse, although people outside the palace felt that Ace had a wonderful night.

The place where Princess Muse meets Ace is in the meeting hall of the Finger Palace.

At this moment, the courtiers have not left the meeting hall for a long time, and the chairs are still scattered around the long table. Princess Muse is sitting at the front. Sleeveless, with a large area of ​​snow-white skin exposed on the back, the skirt is very large, and a roaring lion king is embroidered with golden thread on it. This dress is beautiful and wild.

Ace saluted Princess Muse as a knight of the Pansy Empire, and then sat behind the long table, which happened to be the farthest from Princess Muse.

Princess Muse didn't care about it, she was looking at the parchment, which was covered with black quill handwriting, she raised her head and looked at Ace, "You are a scholar in the Millais library, you can actually be rude. "

Ace didn't speak.

Ace and Princess Muse sat at opposite ends of the long table, neither of them spoke again, and Princess Muse also started to make annotations on the parchment with red ink.

Ace who insists on meditating every day is not comparable to Princess Muse compared to Qi cultivation skills.

Indeed, Princess Muse spoke first.

But this is not because Princess Muse is inferior to Ace in raising energy, but because unlike the idler Ace Neumann, Princess Muse has so many things to do every day that she really has no time to play wooden games with Ace.

Princess Muse said: "Scholar Ace, in fact, I invited you to the Palace of Finger, and I do have something to ask you."

"This is not the way for a friendly host to invite guests." Ace rubbed his hands and rested on the straw for a long time. There were many red marks on his hands. "And isn't Her Royal Highness because of that inexplicable prophecy?"

"I don't care about prophecies." Princess Muse smiled and said, "I believe in the words of Ace scholars and neither do I believe in the words of astrologers."

Ace said coldly: "The Millais Library believes in science. We believe that all things have their own laws of operation, such as magic elements and vindictiveness, which are the essence of this world. But this does not include the predictions of astrologers. All Everything is man-made, we are not astrologers' pawns."

Princess Muse said: "Scholar Ace is right. Then what Scholar Ace thinks, how should the Finger Empire change its destiny?"

Ace clasped his fingers slightly, and tapped the armrest of the chair with the back of his fingers. People from the Pansy Empire believed that doing this action could prevent bad luck from happening. "I thought the Finger Empire and the Magic Island joined forces."

Princess Muse didn't deny that she needed Ace's help, and something had to be told to him, "It can be said to some extent."

Ace said: "Relying on the magic island to become the overlord of the mainland is just a puppet."

Princess Muse said: "Scholar Ace, you should be aware of the situation of the Finger Empire and the Pansy Empire. You are a nobleman, you have been trained in the training camp of the Pansy Empire Knights, and you came to the Finger Empire with the mission. At that time, I saw many missions of the Finger Empire. Tell me, how long can the Finger Empire survive without the intervention of the Magic Island?"

Ace didn't speak.

Regardless of finances, or military alone, the two Finger Empires may not be able to defeat the Pansy Empire.Had it not been for the Magic Island hanging high above the sky like the sword of Damocles, the Pansy Empire would have pierced the Finger Empire a hundred years ago.

However, the attitude of Magic Island has always been ambiguous. Why did it decide to intervene in the dispute between the two empires at this time.

Princess Muse asked again: "Does the Ace scholar remember the story of Queen Catherine in the history of the Pansy Empire?"

Ace naturally remembered Queen Catherine——Catherine Keouser, later Catherine Murphy, the only queen in the history of the Pansy Empire.Catherine Coother later married Gabriel Murphy, and her eldest son with Gabriel Murphy took the surname Murphy and ruled the Pansy Empire for another 220 years.

Ace looked at Princess Muse and said, "You want to be the queen? The Finger Empire is different from the Pansy Empire. You have no right to inherit."

But soon Ace realized that he even stood up from the chair in surprise, "No, it's not that you want to be the queen, it's that the Finger family has no other male heirs!"

Only then did Ace recall that the Finger family had always had few children. The old king of the Finger Empire had only two children, Prince Bartholomew and Princess Muse, and the old king didn't even have any other brothers.

Originally, Prince Bartholomew came to the Pansy Empire, and Ace also lamented to Nou that the Finger Empire was too courageous, and just put the only heir of the empire under the nose of the enemy empire.

On the king's birthday, Fenfur's assassination of the old king happened suddenly, and then Princess Muse declared war on the Pansy Empire, which was ignored by everyone.

In other words, before the old king died, no one was aware of this problem.

"But." Standing at the other end of the long table, Ace looked straight into the dark eyes of Princess Muse, the current ruler of the Finger Empire, and asked, "What do you need from me?"