Skeleton King

Many, many years ago, before the Pansy Empire and the Finger Empire were established, the kingdoms at that time liked to exile people who were not tolerated by the world to desert islands.

Exile is a harsher punishment than being put in prison for the most heinous people.

No return date, no hope.

At that time, the island where the magic island was located was farther and more desolate from the land than the North Sea Islands, and it became a place of exile.

A group of young men with different sexual orientations poisoned the soldiers escorting them with poisonous mushrooms, fled secretly to the coast of the Netherlands, and established the Millais Library.But more people, they survived famine, disease, and atrocities, and came to the magic island.

No one knows how they managed to survive on an island that was neither suitable for farming nor fresh water.Only legends full of myths are sung by bards and spread in the Pansy Empire and the Finger Empire.

A woman who was assigned when she was pregnant gave birth to a baby boy on the magic island. For that deserted island full of despair, the new life is of great significance.The poor woman has no milk, and the barren magical island has no food to provide the child. The first island owner fed the child with his own blood.It's a pity that the child hadn't grown up yet, and the first island owner died due to excessive blood loss.

Just when the people on the deserted island completely lost their humanity due to famine and wanted to cook the child, the place where the first island owner died turned into a pool of spring water.The sweet spring water allows people to eliminate hunger, strengthen their bodies, and give birth to magic fruits a few years later.At that time, the magical element of the plane was much stronger than now, and the magic fruit would ripen in a few years.

Princess Muse broke through the ninth level, and Prince Nishimoto became a sword master, relying on the magic fruit in the magic spring.

The same is true of desert islands back then.

People continue to break through the holy rank.That remote desert island is also called the Land of Salvation, the Island of Magic.

It is said that God deprived some people of certain natures, such as their ability to fall in love with the opposite sex, or their belief in the gods, but compensated them in the form of magical springs.

Angela didn't believe this legend at all, "I think the biggest possibility is that the first island owner of the magic island was an existence beyond the holy rank, and he also majored in magic of the light attribute. He was..."

Angela's eyes drifted to the chain that was fused with star stones on Ace's wrist, and said: "Because of some reasons, he was imprisoned, so he couldn't exert his original strength, and was imprisoned on the magic island.

But his body is still absorbing magic elements continuously.

Over the years, the magical elements of the light attribute have reached a certain proportion in his body, but he cannot use them.After he died, or simply these magical elements forced him to explode, the place where he was was turned into a magical spring.This is also related to the special terrain of Magic Island. "

"Probably." Ace said: "But what I want to talk about is that before that deserted island became a world-famous magic island, and in the long time after that, it still has a little-known, more than we imagined. A more bloody and violent shadow side."

……

city ​​that never sleeps.

General Arnold just came to the old Skeleton King's palace through the teleportation array, and now he comes to the city that never sleeps every day to teach Alt how to practice swords.If Alte breaks through to the Juggernaut, not only will the Evernight City have multiple holy ranks, but the Nightless Knights' strength will also increase greatly, which is even more important for the Nightless City.

The situation in the city that never sleeps is becoming more and more chaotic, and no one or undead creatures can care about little Daniel anymore.He also doesn't want to be taken care of by ordinary waiters and maids. He either follows Art or stays in the old Skeleton King's palace every day.

When Alter was fighting General Arnold, little Daniel fell asleep lying in mid-air bored, turning over from time to time.

Finally, when their guidance battle was over, Little Daniel excitedly spit out big black bubbles to Alter and General Arnold respectively.General Arnold ducked, but Art couldn't.

Ace is not in the city that never sleeps now. Although Angela can summon the skeleton knight, two or three kittens are really useless.And from time to time to open the teleportation array across the plane, even if there are black gem veins in the city that never sleeps, it can't be burned.But little Daniel, with him, no matter when and where, he can instantly summon the Skull Knights.

Therefore, Art is really tormented and extremely happy to take care of little Daniel.

Alter doesn't want to let the city that never sleeps fall when Ace is not there and he acts as an agent for the city that never sleeps.

General Arnold and Alt discussed the Twin Cities again. General Arnold told Alt, "Don't worry about Eternal Night City. There are still several cities around Eternal Night City. It will take 10 days for the knights of the two empires to capture them." Above, they consume less energy than we do.”

The flow of time in the dead world is the same as in the present world, and 10 days here is equivalent to 10 years in the small plane.

Art's heart skipped a beat.

He thought that General Arnold would say that the knights of the two empires would never return. Although the knights who attacked Eternal Night City also included the knights of Westphalia province where he once stayed, those who are kind to him It's just the head of the Knights of Westphalia Province, who has been removed from an insignificant position because Prince Xiben came to power.

He didn't want his former comrades-in-arms to suffer heavy casualties, but he didn't want Eternal Night City to fall even more.

Eternal Night City and Evernight City are twins, but everyone knows that Eternal Night City is stronger and more unbreakable.If even Eternal Night City can't hold on, then Nightless City...

The situation is far more serious than they imagined.

General Arnold saw Alter's doubts, and he said: "In the past, the center of the dead world, the central city, was controlled by the magic island. The central city has a very long history of being controlled by the magic island. Almost after the disappearance of the old skeleton king, People from Magic Island settled in Central City, and they know as much about the dead world as we do, so our advantage is much smaller than imagined.

Although there are endless skeletons in the dead world, most of them are not wise.

We need to have enough high-level skeleton knights to control them.Otherwise they will just kill each other.

High-level skeleton knights are what we lack most now.

Magic Island has another method of controlling the skeleton army, which is equivalent to refining weapons, making them into puppets, which is a method only available to astrologers.I don't know how the owner of the magic island, or that Jacob, would refine such a large number of skeleton soldiers.But they didn't try to make peace with us at all, which must have solved the problem. "

Alt said: "My lord, what happened to the little plane?"

General Arnold wore the legendary armor Immortal Darkness. The entire armor was pitch black and completely covered his body. People who didn't know the truth could never imagine that there was no human body under his armor.

The people on Magic Island have probably confirmed that Ace is the lord of Eternal Night City, and they know who the liches standing beside him are.But few of them set their sights on General Arnold. Level [-] is indeed not weak, but in plane wars, the combat power of non-holy ranks is always easy to be ignored.

Ace, Art, and the others understood that General Arnold was a holy rank thousands of years ago, and he has not broken through for a long time because he is walking an extremely difficult road.General Arnold personally killed the last astrologer on the mainland, endured the cruelest curse in the endless wasteland and loneliness, and honed the most resolute heart.

In the living world and the dead world, the magician is usually the weakest holy rank, then the sword master, and finally the holy magician.Now in the two planes, only the owner of the magic island is a holy mage, and he is also known as an existence beyond the holy rank.

If General Arnold breaks through again, he is likely to become an existence at the same level as the owner of the magic island.The immortality of undead creatures will also make him more powerful for a long time.

But he needs time.

Similarly, those high-level skeleton knights who retreated in the small sea of ​​dead spirits and the sea of ​​dead souls still need time.

Hearing Alter's question, General Arnold's memory returned to that era, the era when the soldiers were in chaos, the people were in dire straits, and the era when all heroes rose together.

General Arnold said: "Actually, I have been to a small plane before."

General Arnold saw those brown-skinned, rune-covered people in the city that never sleeps, and he recognized them instantly.General Arnold's words opened up a small corner of the history books and revealed a little-known history, "At that time, there were countless kingdoms on the mainland, and there were places where wars were fought every moment , and unlike the current Pansy Empire and Finger Empire, they will exchange prisoners on the battlefield of Purin.

At that time, we couldn't even support our own people, let alone captives.

Do you know what industry the Finger Empire used to go from obscurity to dominating the east of the mainland in just 200 years?That's it, human trafficking.

It was the Finger family who first came up with the idea of ​​carving miniature magic circles on the bodies of the defeated, turning them from captives into slaves.The Fingers took their actions as a kindness, giving these mortals a reason to live.

And the miniature magic circle is the rune we see now.

At that time, the miniature magic circle could not only prevent them from escaping, anyone who saw them would immediately find out that they were slaves, which completely cut off the possibility of them returning to ordinary life.

That was truly an invention of the ages.It is a magic apprentice, as long as he learns from a magician for a few months, he can help a 'slave' draw such a miniature magic circle.But their failure is not simply death.

The slaves who 'own' the miniature magic circles no longer need to eat, drink and sleep. Every breath they take will inhale magic elements into their miniature magic circles, which makes them stronger. The conqueror who captured these slaves except some Most of the income is sold to 'friends' in other kingdoms through the Finger family. "

It does sound like a powerful humanoid weapon.Art felt that things couldn't be that simple.

"Using the miniature magic array to absorb the magic elements between the planes as energy, this really solved the problem of food shortage at that time. It's a bit like the astrology puppet of the astrologer." Most of the astrologers are not like the current magic island owners, Their combat power is generally much weaker than magicians of the same level, and astrology puppets and astrology dolls are their means of protecting themselves.Art thought for a while, and said: "Except for the 'material' difference." The main material of the astrological puppets is mostly flying stones from the sky, but the main material of these humanoid weapons is living people.

The slaves engraved with miniature magic circles have no self-mobility except independent thinking.Alter felt, "These slaves are like cheap astrological puppets."