Skeleton King

Ace took the black mage directly to Evernight City.Coincidentally, Bill had just finished making the star potion, and felt Ace's arrival in the laboratory.When Bill walked out of the laboratory, he saw the black mage tied to Ace and the runes on him.

Bill asked with great interest, "Is this a gift from His Highness?"

Ace sneered, "Why should I prepare a gift for you?"

"Even the thugs in the Gambling Hall of the Lord of Chaos have wine and gold coins, so they are motivated to work." Bill said, "I am at least a good magic pharmacist."

Clearly, all kinds of precious materials from the dead world were allowed to be used by Bill.Ace said speechlessly: "Have you been reduced to being compared with thugs?" Having said that, Ace still gave Bill the black magician, "Don't kill him."

Bill grabbed the black mage's shoulder in satisfaction, sniffed it lightly, and sighed: "Eternal Night City has not smelled of a living person for a long time. I really miss it."

The black mage, who was captured alive by Ace before and found that he couldn't even die, and who was still barely calm, finally couldn't help but change his face.Bill also added happily: "I hope His Highness's request for him is not an ordinary death, that request is too high."

Bill ran his fingers across the rune-tattooed skin of the Black Mage, and returned to his laboratory contentedly.

Ace withdrew his warning eyes, and at this moment, General Arnold also appeared at the door of Bill's laboratory courtyard, "Your Highness."

Ace asked, "Where's Angela?"

It may be that Ace's tone is not very good, General Arnold is a little worried, "Your Highness, Angela is in the laboratory. Recently we exchanged mithril with a few liches with star potion, and Angela wants to integrate them into the Knights of Eternal Night In her armor, she has a heavy task, and maybe she doesn't care about other things."

Ace looked General Arnold up and down, and said without thinking, "Angela is beautiful, isn't she?" At that time, Ace wanted to put Angela in the residence of the Knights of Eternal Night, but who was unwilling? It has been maintained.

If it wasn't for General Arnold's whole body covered in armor, and the mask covering his face tightly, Ace could have seen the fire of General Arnold's soul turn red.

Ace did not embarrass General Arnold, he said softly: "Call her here, I will not embarrass her, it may be a good thing."

Ace watched General Arnold directly condense a piece of paper with magic elements, folded it up, and let it fly to the other end of Evernight City, presumably to inform Angela.Ace said suddenly again: "General Arnold. You should know that Angela was left to me by my mother. I think you should understand what it means."

General Arnold was silent for a few seconds, and said calmly, "I have never had any unreasonable thoughts."

……

Ace was sitting in the council hall of the Santo's Mansion, and he didn't have to wait long before Angela walked in from the door.Angela is the same age as Angelica, but unlike Angelica who exudes the charm of a mature woman, Angela is still like a little girl who doesn't know the world.

"Master, are you looking for me?" Angela's body is covered with strong dark magic elements. Over the years, countless treasures from Eternal Night City have been piled on her. She is already a sixth-level necromancer.

At her age, this is already a remarkable achievement.

Ace said lightly: "It's nothing, do you visit your sister regularly?"

"Yes, I go to see my sister every week." Under Ace's calm and almost icy gaze, Angela became a bit weaker, "Sometimes Evernight City is too busy, and I can't take care of it. Moreover, the aura of the dead world on my body is too strong now, and I often go to see my sister, which is not good for my sister's health."

Ace asked, "Do you know about your sister and Prince Nishimoto?"

"I know." Angela said briskly, "I met Prince Xiben in Rose Castle pretending to be a maid. He is so handsome. He is also very ordinary to me." Angela was born beautiful, and as a necromancer, The experience of Eternal Night City added another three points of mystery to her. Even nobles who are used to seeing beauties rarely lose their spirits when they see Angela.

"But he is so kind to my sister. Originally, my sister lived in Rose Castle, and she would be looked down upon. Prince Xiben often invited my sister to dinner. Later, everyone complimented my sister." Angela said: "I heard Prince Xiben greeted my sister with my own ears. Marriage proposal. He wants his sister to be the princess. Master, if my sister can marry Prince Nishimoto, she will become the most powerful woman in the pansy empire in the future. This is a dream that no woman can refuse. My sister can help Here you go." Angela was full of joy.

Ace said again: "Didn't you ask before that Angelica has a sweetheart?"

Angela was innocent, and she said happily: "Maybe it's Prince Xiben. Master, what happened? You suddenly asked so many things about my sister."

Ace finally understood why Angela didn't tell him about Angelica's stay at Rose Castle.She really thought it was a good thing.

Ace said: "It's nothing, I came to you to give you something."

Ace took out a magic wand from the space bracer. The top of the magic wand was white. His eyes gradually moved down along the top of the magic wand. The color of the magic wand also changed from milky white to light gray, then to dark gray, until the end of black.It's really a pretty wand, even if it's bare.

But Angela would not underestimate this magic wand. When Ace took it out, even the magic elements in the chamber became thicker.

Angela thought of a legend, and was shocked: "This is?"

Ace said lightly: "The sigh of the undead. I think you may have heard of its name."

The Sigh of the Undead, this is one of the most famous magic wands in the undead.In the eyes of necromancers, its status is no less than Hai Lan's staff to magicians majoring in water magic.

Ace found a treasure room in the palace of the Skeleton King of the Necromancer Sea. There are three things in it, namely the legendary staff Undead Sigh, the legendary armor Immortal Darkness, and a small box containing a dozen Lian Ace A pitch-black bead that I don't even know.The legendary armor of immortal darkness was given to General Arnold by Ace, and the dark beads were snatched by little Daniel to play as marbles. Ace saw that little Daniel liked it, so he had to let him keep it safe.

Instead, the sigh of the undead, the legendary staff, has been lying in Ace's space bracer these days.

Angela didn't expect Ace to take out the sigh of the undead.

Angela was puzzled and shocked, and even worried about gains and losses. If she understood correctly, Ace came to her today to give her something.

Is it...

Ace put the sigh of the undead on Angela's hand and said, "Treat it well."

Angela was very pleasantly surprised, "Master, are you going to give me the sigh of the undead? But..."

Because of the particularity of undead creatures, unless they enter the Jedi, most undead creatures are immortal.This means that they will not leave inheritance easily.It has always been more difficult for necromancers to obtain suitable magic items than real magicians, even for liches.

With Ace's current identity and strength, coupled with the sigh of the legendary staff undead, it is enough for Ace to gain the allegiance of a lich again.

Angela didn't understand why such a huge benefit fell to her.

Ace didn't seem to take this matter seriously. He walked towards the door and said as he walked, "With the sigh of the undead on the staff, your success rate in alchemy will be much higher." Ace thought of the magic island He mobilized many knights from the Finger Empire, and said: "The knights will play a greater role in the future. Your alchemy is very important to Eternal Night City."

When Angela sent Ace to leave the Santo's Mansion, Ace said again: "When you are free, you can go and see Angelica. No matter what happened to Angelica, record it and give it to General Arnold. Now that you have the sigh of the undead with the staff, you should be able to perfectly control the breath on your body, and you don't have to worry about the dark magic element on your body affecting her."

……

When Ace returned to the outskirts of the imperial capital, it was the time when the night was at its thickest.But this night was not peaceful. Although every household in the imperial capital was not lit up with magic lamps or candles, there were horses galloping on the streets from time to time. It was conceivable that this was a sleepless night for countless people.

No one has come here yet.

In addition to the death of a large number of crops, even the surrounding trees fell down due to the attacks of Ace and the black mage.Not only can you see far away, because the magic elements in this area are thin, even the stars in the sky become brighter than usual.

Ace looked up at the sky.Regardless of whether the land under his feet was soaked in blood, or became parched and uncultivable, or turned into a sea, the starry sky above his head would not change in any way.It has existed on the top of human beings since ancient times, and it will continue to exist tens of thousands to tens of thousands of years after human existence or non-existence.

It is said that astrologers can spy on the secrets of the stars.

Ace once captured the captives of the magic island in the dead world. According to them, the current owner of the magic island has been inherited by the astrologer, and the magic island exists in accordance with the destiny.

Even the rise and fall of the empire and the fate of mankind were predicted by the stars early on.

Ace didn't know there were living astrologers until then.

But compared to such a vast sea of ​​stars, the family, love, and friendship of human beings, the happiness, pain, and tribulation they have encountered are all so insignificant.But for human beings, they are all so important.

Ace thought in a trance of the young he and Nou who were captured by Bill for the first time, and he thought of the curse about the pansy recorded by General Arnold that he accidentally saw in the tomb at the original site of Eternal Night City. There is also the pitiful look in the eyes of the Millais University scholar when he looked at him, as if he saw his unfortunate fate in the future.

Ace thought of the star potion he and Bill made together, the stars that appeared in the dead world; every time he revealed the secret, Nou's attitude towards him was almost the same as before; They wield more and more power.

In Ace's sight, the buildings of the Pansy Empire's imperial capital became nothingness. He saw Noel leaving the palace with Princess Bernadette, and the guards of the Pansy Palace wanted to question the people in the Duke Green's mansion. Count their numbers.Nou pulled back the veil of the carriage, with a proud and distant attitude, "What do you want to find in the Green family's motorcade?"

Ace saw Noel send Princess Bernadette back to the room, and hugged her at the door, "Bernadette, you performed really well! Today's appearance is also perfect!"

Noel walked through the long aisle of the Duke's mansion again. The tenderness he had with Princess Bernadette had disappeared. He said to the old butler at the end of the road: "Go and check, the Pansy Palace tonight what happened?"

……

Ace's eyes turned to the other side of the imperial capital. In Rose Castle, Princess Mary was teasing her babbling little daughter, the second child of her and Jonah Flynn.All said Princess Mary just admired Jonah Flynn's talent.Jonah Flynn is indeed good-looking, and good at painting and music.Therefore, when Princess Mary let Jonah Flynn temporarily live in Rose Castle, all the noble ladies who often came to Rose Castle to have fun envied Princess Mary's good luck and got a perfect collection.

But everyone doesn't know that Princess Mary's unruly life is just her fear of her unreached destiny.She would never tell Jonah Flynn that she loved him so much that she would do anything for him—bring him children, and let him share in all her wealth and honor.Her love is so proud and humble. When Jonah Flynn came back to find her in desperation, she just smiled lazily, "Back again? Your studio is still reserved for you."

She deliberately didn't look at the anger flashing across Jonah Flynn's face.Why didn't she want Jonah Flynn's sincerity, but when she first married the gentle earl chosen by her father, Prince Andreas told her: "I'm sorry, Mary, you Never get the love of the person you really like. It's your destiny."

……

Ace's gaze finally turned to the Pansy Palace, where Prince Nishimoto was angrily reprimanding the knights of the Royal Guards, "When Sykes was still there, not even a bug could fly into the palace! If you can't, Then go to the Prin Mountains to fill the artillery!"

In His Majesty Ludwig IV's bedroom, there were more than a dozen knights guarding that night. Logically, they should all stay outside the bedroom. Archer was kneeling on one knee in front of His Majesty Ludwig IV's bed, "Your Majesty's guard is wrong, please punish me."

Ludwig IV didn't care, he said indifferently: "It's not your fault. Someone has already come out of the small plane. This is something that I didn't even think of. It just makes this matter a long memory for Xiben. How is he?" Although His Majesty Ludwig IV did not say it clearly, Hiram Archer knew that the "he" did not refer to Prince Xiben.

Hiram Archer said: "The guards of the palace thought that Scholar Ace and Duke Green's carriage had left. There was still a team that should have followed to check. But I sent people from my original team." That is to say , No one else will find out that Ace disappeared for no reason.

His Majesty Ludwig IV nodded.Hiram Archer hesitated a few times, but he still had the courage to say: "Does Your Majesty want to meet His Highness Ace?"

If Ace had the strength to kill the killer from the small plane and left the palace without a sound, with the help of Hiram Archer, it would not be difficult for His Majesty Ludwig IV to meet Ace.Even on the bright side, His Majesty Ludwig IV is still subject to Prince Xiben, but unless Prince Xiben changes the people in the Pansy Palace, it is still not as good as Ludwig IV for more than [-] years operate.

Time has piled up fine lines at the corners of Ludwig IV's eyes. After so many years, he finally admitted in front of people, "I loved Caroline. If I knew that there was Ace back then, even if the Myron University scholar Lorraine and Ben Neumann are married, and I will not let them leave the imperial capital. I pay attention to Ace, pave the way for him, and leave all good things to him, just because he is Caroline's child, which proves Caroline and my child from the past. His meaning lies in his existence."

……

Ace thought of the title he got in the Millai Library, the stars that lit up from time to time over the city of Evernight, and the stars all over the mountains and plains in the city that never sleeps.

Perhaps the Finger Empire, the Pansy Empire, and the Magic Island all emerged as the times require, but the love and dreams in the hearts of human beings are not inferior to the stars in the sky.

The pansy royal family bears the curse of losing their loved one forever, but for more than a thousand years, no matter what they meet is the sun or the moon in their lives, they have never stopped their persistent pursuit of true love.The Finger royal family suffered from the pain of soul-shattering, which never stopped day and night, which forged their steel-like will and their desire for supreme kingship that was integrated into their bones and blood.

The stars can only follow their natural laws, and only humans can create infinite possibilities.

Just for a moment, Ace felt that he had a good idea.

Ace seems to be placed in the vast starry sky, turning into stars, wandering among them, he observes the birth, growth and destruction of stars, the prosperity and decline of empires in the long river of time, the birth and origin of magic, and the behavior of ordinary people. Birth and death.

It turns out that the Dead Realm was once a vibrant plane.

It is only because of the unrestrained killing of human beings and the unremitting destruction of nature that it has become so desolate and decayed.

Returning to the dead world after death may also faintly indicate that the dead world is the future of this plane.

Ace felt endless dark magic elements appearing around him, and he himself was like a vortex, absorbing these magic elements frantically.

If Ace opens his eyes now, he will still see that the gate of the dead world in the outskirts of the imperial capital has been opened, and the dark magical elements are so strong that they have turned into water, directly surrounding Ace.The stars in the sky were shining brightly, and there was a golden beam of light that reached the sky and could not see the end, directly covering Ace.

Now, no matter whether General Arnold of Eternal Night City joins several liches to open the passage to the Great Dead Realm, or whether ordinary people see the bones from the Dead Realm falling on the ground, no one will ignore this suburb of the imperial capital.

Pansy Palace, Green Duke's Mansion... All the powerhouses above the eighth level in the Pansy Empire Imperial Capital felt it. Just on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, at this very moment, an extremely powerful mage was born.

Coupled with the dark magic elements appearing like a tsunami, no one will doubt the attributes of the magic elements practiced by this newly born mage.

This is a necromancer.Regardless of the mainland's ban, he just broke through on the edge of the Pansy Empire's imperial capital.