Skeleton King

On this day, as soon as Nuo Ou arrived at the sword room, he saw the old Duke Green standing there waiting for him.

The old Duke Green didn't wear those cumbersome and gorgeous robes, but a rare knight costume.

His father held a fine steel sword in his hand. When he saw Nuoou coming, he nodded slightly without noticing it, and said in a flat tone: "Cultivation is fairly hardworking."

Noel saluted the old Duke Green, "Father."

"Let me see how much your swordsmanship has improved?" Old Duke Green drew a sword flower with his long sword, and said to Nou.

Nuoou didn't move for a long time.

He looked at the old Duke Grimm in front of him, his father pretending to be guiding him.Nuo Ou felt that the old Duke Green was no longer his opponent.

Huh?

Noah was a little puzzled.How could he come up with such an idea?Obviously his father is a level nine swordsman, but he is only level seven, so it is more than enough to guide him.

Nou no longer cared about the complicated thoughts in his head, he picked up a crimson sword from the sword room, and fought with the old Duke Green.

The sea-blue battle qi was staring at each other in the small sword room. The old Duke Green and Nuo Ou practiced the same battle qi mentality and used the same battle qi.They have fought thousands of times. The old Duke Green watched Noah grow up slowly, and he was very familiar with his attack methods. Noah lost faster than before.

Nuo Ou looked at his bloody wrist, and at the crimson long sword that fell to the ground.

He felt that his strength was getting weaker and weaker.He felt that his original strength was even stronger.

Nou thought he would wait for his father's stormy reprimand.The old Duke Green said: "That's right. Your swordsmanship has improved. It's really different after breaking through to level 7."

Nuo Ou felt weird, obviously he lasted longer when they fought against each other last time. Level 7 is indeed an unfamiliar field for him, not because he has just broken through, but because he is far away from level 7.

But my father was always right.Nou has believed so firmly since he was a child.

He picked up the scarlet long sword on the ground and put it back on the shelf.

Nuo's father took the initiative to grab Nuo's hand, and Hai Lan's grudge flowed to Nuo's hand along the place where their skins touched.The wound on Noou's tiger's mouth healed quickly.

"Thank you father." Nou uncomfortably withdrew his hand held by the old Duke Green.This action made him feel strange.

The old Duke Green didn't seem to notice Nou's "abnormality".He said: "What do you think about what I told you last time?"

"What did you say last time?" Nuo Ou couldn't react.

The old Duke Green said: "Old Earl Richter invited you to stay at their house next summer, presumably to match you and Claudia Richter. Claudia Richter's appearance and family background are not bad. .Although your mother doesn't like her very much, she also admits that Claudia Richter will be a qualified duchess. Marrying with the Richter family, when you inherit my title, the entire Louisiana province will not There will be voices against you again.

This would have been excellent.But the Foreign Secretary would like to introduce you to Lord Marina Homer.I think that's a better choice for you.

She is the only daughter of my good friend, old Lord Homer.During the social season last year, Marina Homer saw you in the Imperial Capital and asked the Foreign Secretary about you.I hope you choose her not only because of my relationship with her father, but also because you will have a child in the future. This child will not only inherit the fief of the Green family, but also have the fief of the Homer family in the north. "

"As for the Richter family." The old Duke Grimm paused, and said, "You can marry your sister Bernadette to David Richter." The Richter family, apart from Claudia Richter Well, everyone else will be happier with it.

Nou subconsciously said, "Bernadette won't like it."

"David Richter will be good to her. Or do you prefer Claudia Richter?" The old Duke Green looked at Nou with some kindness in his eyes, "Nou, your mother and I I always hope that you can meet someone you like and live happily.”

"No." Nou said the words faster than his thoughts.

The love in the old Duke Green's eyes faded slightly, his face was extremely calm, but his tone could not be refused, "Nuoou, you have to give me a reason."

Nou said dryly: "There is no reason." Seeing that the old Duke Green was getting more and more dissatisfied, Nou explained: "I always feel that they are not the people I am waiting for."

The old Duke Green asked: "You already have someone in mind?"

"Yes... no..." Nuo Ou felt that he had fallen into a huge vortex.A young man with black hair and green eyes appeared in his mind again, he didn't know which world was real.Is the world he is in now a fake, this is just a trial for him by the star of hope, or is the figure in his dream that touches his heart fake, and it is just a dream he had?

Nou's face instantly became very ugly.

"Get married first, then start a career." The old Duke Green turned a blind eye to these things, he was very indifferent, "You marry someone back first, and if you meet someone you like again, you can buy a house outside and raise her..."

……

Noel looked at the old Duke Grimm, but his gaze penetrated the sword house, the layers of walls of Grimm Castle, and fell on the Yingying Grassland in the eastern plains of Louisiana Province, and fell on the vast and bright grassland. on the starry sky.

A bright red sword shadow appeared beside Nuoou.

In just a few moments, Nou's temperament changed drastically.His breath became stronger and more mellow, and he looked at the old Duke Green with indifferent and gentle eyes, "Actually, my admiration for my parents has long since disappeared, but I still refuse to admit it. Something more important replaced that."

Like Bernadette.

Like Ace.

They have already made up for the lack of love in Nuoou.

"Otherwise, the figures of my father and mother would not become so faint in my memory. I still remember their voices and smiles clearly, as if I saw them yesterday." Nuo Ou said: "But, the others, I have long forgotten the deeper things about them. Star of Hope can create illusions based on my obsessions, but these are just my obsessions that I thought they were, but in fact I have already come out.

If it was really my father who stood here today, he would not have allowed the foster room. No matter how tolerant my father was to my uncle Jonah Flynn, his existence is also evidence of my grandfather's betrayal of my grandmother.He still cares.That's why he loved his mother so much, so he taught Bernadette and me that way.

It's just that I've forgotten.I thought Father really was brother Christine with Jonah Flynn.

For so many years, I have said this to myself.Tell Ace, and everyone, that Jonah Flynn is an ungrateful, wolf-hearted man.I have selectively ignored my father's teasing of my uncle, Jonah Flynn, by keeping him from returning to Castle Green and re-entering the Louisiana province, and hearing my father tell my mother when I was a child Yes, how did he make Jonah Flynn fail in the trial of the Knights training camp, how did he prevent him from breaking through level four and awakening Hai Lan's fighting spirit..."

The old Duke Green stood in front of Nou, "he" looked puzzled, but Nou didn't care.He's just pretending there's someone here, he just needs someone to listen to.

"But I don't blame my father. I never thought you were a role model of morality." Noel thought of Rose Castle, the suburb of the Imperial Capital of the Pansy Empire, where Earl Marina Homer locked Princess Mary's lover Jonah Flynn in a dungeon Before going, Jonah Flynn could have escaped originally, but the person Noel lurking beside Jonah Flynn quietly told Earl Marina Homer to let her catch him.

In the competition for the title of the Green family, no one has ever really had clean hands.

Noel thought that when he went back, he would try to get Count Marina Homer to release Jonah Flynn from the dungeon.In any case, he also has the blood of the Green family on his body.

Nou's eyelids were slightly closed, and he said lightly: "I really don't blame you. If it weren't for you, Jonah Flynn wouldn't use the heirlooms of the Green family to cooperate with the traitors of the Magic Island, and Bill wouldn't have brought me and Ace together. Take Saxon Mountain away, Ace and I may not have a fate later on."

"Father, I even thank you." After Nuo Ou finished speaking, the people in front of him disappeared like smoke.

……

Noel buried the old Duchess Green's body with his own hands.

Compared with the old Duke Green who left early and came back late and rarely saw him, Nou had a deeper memory of the old Duchess Green.She is also more similar to the real old Duchess Green, if not different.

Nou felt her mother's warmth again.

Then he experienced her being killed by illness again.She was growing weaker and weaker in the hospital bed, but there was nothing he could do.

It was as deep as the pain of seeing off my mother at that time.

But now Nuoou's heart is as firm as a rock.

……

"Brother?" Princess Bernadette stood beside the big tree in the Demonic Beast Forest in surprise.

It takes a half-day ride from here to Green Castle.Princess Bernadette did not expect that she would meet Nou here.

Noel looked at the person who was tightly intertwined with Princess Bernadette's ten fingers - it was Princess Mary of Rose Castle who gave Princess Bernadette a guardian knight, and it was Ace who brought him back to Duke Bernadette Miss.

After Nuoou got rid of the illusion of Star of Hope, he felt something was wrong.

Here, the old Duke Green and his wife are still alive, and Princess Bernadette does not need to go to Rose Castle to be the adopted daughter of Princess Mary, let alone know this knight.

"No wonder, that's why you were so reluctant to leave Rose Castle." For a young girl in love, there is nothing more painful than being separated from her lover. "No wonder, you accept Ace so easily and have such a good relationship with him." Nuo Ou was also worried that the two of them would fall in love.

It turns out that Princess Bernadette's natural affection for Ace is because he brought back her soulmate.

"I'm sorry, Bernadette." Nou plunged the bloody long sword into Princess Bernadette's heart, and said, "This is an illusion. I must leave here soon."

When Nuo Ou found out the truth, Princess Bernadette did not disappear.

Nuo Ou knew that this was the test of Hope Star.

Noel made his choice without even asking Princess Bernadette.Because he didn't dare to look too much.

He is very clear and firm, all the things transformed by Star of Hope are fake.

His biggest apology to Princess Bernadette is, "Bernadette, I think your favorite person in this world is also him. But whether you go to Rose Castle or stay in Green Castle, he will always appear by your side. This is absolutely It's not a coincidence." There are only a handful of forces that can place someone next to Duke Green's daughter/sister.

Nou murmured to the body of Princess Bernadette: "I don't want to hinder your love, but I have to. Bernadette, you are my last living relative."

Nou tried every means to prevent people with ulterior motives from contacting Princess Bernadette, but she didn't expect that someone was already lurking beside her.

Noou's eyes were a little red, and the phantom of stabbing Princess Bernadette to death with his own hands still had some influence on him.Because the phantom was too real, it gave Nuoou the illusion of killing his own sister.

However, the strong mental power quickly brought him back to normal.

Nuo Ou didn't take it lightly, he didn't think the illusion created by Star of Hope would be that simple, there must be something more terrifying waiting for him.

Nou felt dizzy.

"Here?" Nou looked at where he was in shock.The dark night outside the window, the dim magic lamp, the exquisite decoration in the corridor... This is the Duke Green's mansion in the imperial capital.

Is it?

Nou had a very bad premonition.

The next moment, the door on the side of the corridor was pushed open.Ace stood by the door in surprise, "Nou?"

This is that night.Ace and Nou will never forget that night. Nou stabbed Ace in the chest with the Dragon King's dagger and locked him in the cellar of the Duke Green's mansion. Even the chain of stars was worn by Nou himself. Up.

It's him.

He personally broke their unbreakable trust.

Even though their current relationship has reached a level that Nuo Ou couldn't imagine at all, he still knows that he broke something fragile and beautiful.They could no longer be inseparable.There is a gap between them, which both of them carefully avoid and cannot easily touch.

"Nuoou, even if you are a ninth-level swordsman, don't fight like this. You are the most important wealth of the Green family." Ace still took chances, and he hoped that Nuoou didn't know anything.

He really, went back to that time.

Nou found that the Judgment Sword in his hand had disappeared and was replaced by a gift from Ace - the Dragon King's Horn they got together in the Port of Nice, and later Ace made it into a handle at a great price Dagger—Dagger of the Dragon King.

Looking at Ace in front of him, he is more real than everyone in Nou's illusion, and even Nou didn't notice the difference between him and Ace in this world.

The only difference from that night was that the little girl's singing could be faintly wafted from the street outside the Duke Green's Mansion, but on this quiet night, the singing was extraordinarily abrupt and terrifying, "The beauty holding her The pansy flower went to see her lover, but the lover quietly brought a dagger...

The beauty wanted to elope with gold and jewels, but her lover inserted a dagger into her heart, trying to take away the beauty's gold and jewels and recruit troops to overthrow the beauty's father's dynasty...

The best lover in the world, the beauty abandons power and reputation, and wants to stay with him forever, her lover, will never fall in love with her..."

The little girl's singing voice is playful, but the lyrics are creepy.

Nou's fingers holding the Dragon King's dagger became sweaty.

Could it be that he wants to hurt Ace again?