Skeleton King

Ace, Noel, and Princess Bernadette were sitting at the edge of the dining room having breakfast.Princess Bernadette was wearing a long black dress, and Ace and Noel were also wearing black gowns. This was to mourn the civilians who died in vain in the eastern plains of the Louisiana province.

Nou said to Ace yesterday: "You don't have to accompany me and Bernadette to wear mourning clothes."

Ace said he knew.When Ke Nuo saw him today, he was still wearing a black gown with no accessories at all.

After breakfast, Nuo put the knife and fork on the table and let the waiter take away the plate.

He told Ace and Bernadette, "Today, people from Magic Island will come to our neighborhood to look for people who have the potential to become magic apprentices. Those who are particularly talented may even have the opportunity to go to Magic Island. What if what happens? Don’t make any fuss about it.”

The last sentence was said by Nou to the old housekeeper.

Most of the maids and waiters in the Duke Green's Mansion came from the eastern plains of the Louisiana province. Communications are not well developed these days. They are worried that something has happened to their family members, but they have no news at all.In the past two days, the maids had broken down one after another. When the eyes of the entire imperial capital were focused on the residence of the Duke of Green and Count Richter, Nou especially did not want to show the pain of the people in the eastern plains of Louisiana province to others. .

The people of Pansy Empire have always been cold and unsympathetic, and the gaffes of others will only become the talk of their dinner parties.

The old butler naturally understood Nou's intentions.He has already planned to let the maids and waitresses in the mansion take turns to let them go shopping in the commercial district of the imperial capital.

The old butler retreated with the waiter.

Ace and Princess Bernadette sent Nou to the gate of the Duke Green's mansion.Today, Prince Nishiben summoned Nou and Claudia Love, who is about to go to the palace right now.

Noou took off the cloak from the hanger, and while putting on the cloak, he asked, "Is the crystal ball test okay?"

Princess Bernadette wondered: "What's the problem? It would be a happy event if someone with amazing magical talent really appeared in our duke's mansion. There have been too many unlucky facts recently, and I really want to hear something that will surprise you happy thing."

Ace knew that Noou was speaking to him.Ace has carefully concealed his magical talent for more than 10 years. Nou is worried that he has something to hide and wants to help him keep the secret.

Ace didn't want to involve Nou in this matter.If Magic Island and the two empires join forces to find him, Nuoou knows too many things and is not safe.

Ace said calmly, "No problem."

Princess Bernadette stood next to Ace and Noel, completely unaware of the strangeness.

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If there is any place in the imperial capital that is more silent and lifeless than the current Duke Green Mansion, it must be the Pansy Palace.

Since the change of Prince Xiben, the land in the garden of the palace has been refurbished several times.Sometimes, the knights of the Royal Guards want to find a piece of clean land to bury the corpse. They dig several pits in a row, and they will find that there is already an owner under the scorched earth without a tombstone. It is not scattered bones, but still There are no fully decomposed corpses.

If the faces of those corpses hadn't been completely rotted, they might even find out that the owner of the corpse was someone they knew.Maybe during the Pansy Moon, they danced at a small banquet, fought a field game on the grass, or drank in the alley outside the palace.

Everyone in the Pansy Palace, no matter how clever the maid, no matter how loyal the waiter, they will always close their eyes because they know some terrible secret.

No matter how optimistic people are by nature, they will gradually lose their vitality after being in such an environment for a long time.

But recently, there is good news quietly spreading among the knights of the Royal Guards, "Have you heard? In the morning, Prince Xiben received a letter from Magic Island. Captain Richter is going back to the empire. You said that Richter After the leader returns to the imperial capital, will he return to the Royal Guard Knights?"

Nobody knows the answer.

Because no one can guess what Prince Xiben is thinking.

When Prince Xiben saw Nuoou, his eyes were full of grief.He walked up quickly and gave Nuoou a hug, "Nuoou, I feel so sorry for you."

The indiscriminate disaster on the Green family's fief is rare in the thousand-year history of the Pansy Empire.

Prince Xiben patted Nuoou on the shoulder twice.

Noou took two steps back and said calmly, "The people in the eastern plains of Louisiana Province are very pitiful and innocent."

"Yes." Prince Xiben agreed with Nuoou's words.But the thousands of people who died on the eastern plains of Louisiana were too insignificant for the populous and vast pansy empire.

Prince Xiben came out to meet Nou on purpose. After comforting Nou, they walked towards the meeting hall.The sadness that Prince Xiben showed just now was only for Nuoou. He has too many people and facts to care about, and he has no time to care about the thousands of people in the east of the empire.

They met no one on the way, and the pansy palace became more and more deserted.

In the conference hall, Nou met Sir Claudia, the eldest daughter of the old Earl Richter and the head of the Knights of Richter

Noel was not surprised to see Mrs. Claudia in the palace. This time, not only the Green family but also the Richter family were affected by the disaster.

Nuo's eyes glanced over the long table inadvertently. There were two cups of tea that had already lost their temperature. It seemed that someone had a not-so-short conversation here.

Nou had never heard that Prince Xiben had contacts with the Richter family.Prince Nishimoto stayed in the imperial capital for a long time except for going to the port of Nice more than a year ago.The Richter family also retreated in the Louisiana province. Except for the few years when Claudia just participated in the social season, the nobles of the Pansy Empire almost forgot about this silver-haired and silver-eyed family.

Lady Claudia was unusually spared her lavish and extravagant gowns.She was wearing an ordinary black gown and trousers. Even though she had no accessories, it could be seen from every well-timed wave of her long silver hair that she had been well-groomed.

Mrs. Claudia smiled familiarly at Prince Xiben, which made Nuo Ou feel faintly strange.She looked at Nou again: "Duke Green."

After Nou and Mrs. Claudia blessed each other's commoners, Prince Xiben sat on the main seat, Nou took the first place on his right hand, and Claudia Love sat first on the left.

Prince Xiben said: "Noel, Mrs. Love, you are all the most important vassals of the Pansy Empire. The Empire deeply regrets the loss suffered by your family. I summoned you to the palace this time because we got I got some information about Necromancers and Skull Knights, the information comes from Magic Island, so it should be reliable."

Prince Xiben handed the two parchment scrolls to Nou and Mrs. Claudia respectively.

Noel and Sir Claudia took the sheepskin scroll in their hands. The sheepskin scroll was very long, and they both looked at it silently.Nuo Ou was the first to browse through the information on the parchment scroll, "So, the last time there were so many undead passages on our plane was last year, in the Palace of Finger?"

Prince Xiben nodded and said: "Yes. There are still a large number of dark magic elements remaining in the sky above the Palace of Finger."

Nuo's eyes were cold, and he said, "Is the incident on the eastern plain of Louisiana a conspiracy by the Finger Empire?"

"I have thought about it." Prince Xiben seemed to be planning a strategy and was extremely confident.

Prince Xiben said: "I discussed this possibility with the people on the Magic Island. But the people on the Magic Island have other opinions. They think that not long after the passage of the dead world appeared, the Palace of Finger opened the Forbidden Magic Circle. Sir Madam Claudia may not know." Prince Xiben nodded gentlemanly to Madam Claudia, then looked at Nou: "But Nou, you must know that the forbidden magic circle in Finger Palace is irreversible. Magic Shima speculates that necromancers appeared in the Finger Empire, but they may not be of the same camp."

In fact, when Nuo Ou read the information on the parchment, he felt something was wrong. He thought for a while and asked, "What does Princess Muse say?"

The old king of the Finger Empire was in a coma. Although Prince Phil appeared out of nowhere, Prince Xiben and Nuo Ou all had the ability to see the essence through phenomena.In their view, the Finger Empire is definitely ruled by Princess Muse.

When he was on a mission to the Finger Empire, Nuo Ou's seat was not far from Princess Muse.He once observed her, the strength in her gestures, the ambition in her eyes.Princess Muse is definitely not a woman willing to care for her husband and raise her children.

The cooperation between Prince Xiben and Princess Muse can be traced back to a long time ago, and he has a better understanding of Princess Muse's ambition.

Unfortunately, the news from the Finger Empire is not beneficial to their current situation.Prince Xiben said: "I heard that Princess Muse was very ill due to an occasional cold." There was no way to reply to them.

Noah sneered.

Prince Xiben said: "Magic Island has sent Master Bright to the Palace of Finger. I hope they can contribute to Princess Muse's recovery."

Prince Xiben's words are false. Although he and Princess Muse have a tacit understanding on many things, their cooperation degenerates infinitely when they are in charge of the two empires respectively.Prince Xiben is not a soft-hearted person. The Finger Empire and the Pansy Empire are now in wartime. Knowing that Princess Muse is seriously ill, it is kind of him not to beat the drums to celebrate.

"I hope there will be good news from Magic Island as soon as possible." After finishing speaking, Nou looked at Mrs. Claudia and asked, "What does the old Earl Richter think of the Louisiana province?" These days are in the imperial capital, although he wrote to the Richter family, but has not received a reply.

Sir Claudia chuckled and said, "I will handle this matter on behalf of my father."

Nou frowned slightly.

Not to mention that Mrs. Claudia is only the daughter of the old Earl Richter, even if she is married to Sir Love now, she should not be too involved in the affairs of the Richter family.After all, David Richter is the heir to the Richter family.

"By the way." Prince Xiben's sudden words drew back Nou's attention, "Nou, you may not know about this. Just a few days ago, the old Count Richter fell ill, and the old Count Richter's little His son, David Richter, returned home from the training camp of the Georgia Knights on leave. He was accidentally injured by several hunting nobles not far from the Demonic Beast Forest and died.

It's a pity that David Richter has broken through level 4, and the trial of the Georgia Knights will be sure in a few years.The old Earl Richter was very sad, and he has already sent me a letter, asking me to recognize Sir Claudia's wife as the heir of the Richter family.When the old Count Richter is gone, Mrs. Claudia will be the new Countess. "