Skeleton King

After Ace arranged Art, he went back to find Nuoou.

As a result, an uninterested person appeared next to Nuoou.

"Why are you here?" Ace was rarely polite to the person who came up.According to their plan, the visitor should have stayed in the Dead Realm.

Sykes is still suave and suave, where he appears, even the ruins after the war, all carry the light of "Bling Bling".It's not that other people's demeanor is not as good as him, it's just that Sykes has a pair of peach blossom eyes, is naturally affectionate, and flaunts everywhere, not to mention Alice, who is by his side all the year round, is also a rare silver-haired beauty.The two of them appeared at the same time, and the eye-catching effect of 1+1 was far greater than 2, even with Nuoou and Esby, they were no different.

When Sykes saw Ace, he smiled terribly. He said, "I was kind. I was worried that Eternal Night City would not be able to defend, so I wanted to help. It turns out that you are more promising than I thought."

There was a touch of pride in Sykes' words.

He knew that Ace was different from him, not the child Mrs. Caroline expected to be born, and His Majesty Ludwig IV didn't know of his existence until many years later.But Sykes knows Mrs. Caroline better than anyone else. If Mrs. Caroline sees that Ace looks beautiful and powerful now, she will be very happy.Her two children have grown up better than she imagined.

Sykes also licked Ace's head.

Ace dodged to the side subconsciously, but he hadn't broken through the Juggernaut yet, and his speed was far less sensitive than Sykes', so he didn't even avoid Sykes' hand.Ace glared at Sykes angrily, walked to Nou and stopped.

Sykes' eyes were full of smiles, his expression was wanton, and he looked more youthful.

Ace asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

Nou's tone was slightly cold, and he looked into Ace's eyes in an unclear way, "Captain Richter said that I should call him brother."

Ace glanced at Sykes, and asked him with his eyes, when did he know about his relationship with Nou.Sykes' eyes turned around on Ace and Nou. When they were on the mission to the Finger Empire, he noticed that the two of them looked at each other wrongly.

Ace took the initiative to formally introduce Nou. He didn't want Nou to continue to misunderstand, "Sikes Richter, the head of the Royal Guards, the son of the Silver Sword Master of Magic Island. But few people know Sykes is my mother's eldest son. Before she married Viscount Neumann, Mrs. Caroline was the lover of Silver Sword Master. Therefore, Sykes is also my half-brother."

Nou was really stunned now.

He had known for a long time that Ace and Sykes had a good relationship, otherwise Sykes would not have gone to meet Ace in the cellar of the Duke Green Mansion, and even brought the Royal Knights to fight with the Twin Cities.

Noel even suspected that Sykes and Ace had a friendship before, otherwise it would be impossible to explain what Sykes did for Ace.

Nuoou once swore allegiance to Prince Xiben, but his achievements today have nothing to do with Prince Xiben. It was the Green family who provided Nuoou with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the knights of the Georgia Knights who taught him.That's it, when he broke the oath, he was also very difficult.

And Sykes?

He was sent to the imperial capital of the Pansy Empire by the Silver Juggernaut when he was 15 years old. He grew up studying in the Knights of the Royal Guards. When he first showed his talents, Prince Xiben and Queen Celia fought for him respectively. With his support, Queen Celia even wanted to betroth Princess Fenfur to him.No matter who said, Sykes should be loyal to the Keosi family.

but……

Is this a chess game arranged by His Majesty Ludwig IV for Ace?Otherwise, it is really impossible to explain the actions of His Majesty Ludwig IV.

The Green family is also the top aristocrat of the Pansy Empire, and Nuo Ou has also been fascinated by the romantic anecdotes of the upper class of the empire since he was a child.But he had never heard of such a thing.His Majesty Ludwig IV allowed his own son to grow up outside, but brought the illegitimate son of his former lover into the palace and brought him up carefully...

Of course, Nuo Ou also had to feel the charm of Mrs. Caroline.Mrs. Caroline's first love was Heinrich Richter, a handsome man who swept the imperial capital back then, and now he is the most powerful swordsman on Magic Island; Mrs. Caroline's lover, Ace's biological father—— Ludwig Koorser ascended to the throne through the chaos of the kings and is the ruler of the most powerful empire on this continent.

Later, Lady Caroline married Viscount Neumann.

Although the title of Viscount Neumann is not obvious, according to Nou's contact with him and the research on his deeds - Viscount Neumann spent 20 years establishing an intelligence network all over the Pansy Empire and the Finger Empire, manipulating several The smuggling activities of a large chamber of commerce did not attract the attention of the relevant personnel of the two empires at all.

If he hadn't eloped with Mrs. Caroline 22 years ago, with his resourcefulness, he should be a pivotal figure in the empire now.But Viscount Neumann abandoned his future and his oath, took Mrs. Caroline back to Bad Soden Manor, raised her and other men's children with all his heart, and lived his life in obscurity and mediocrity.He did not remarry until many years after Lady Caroline died.

I heard that Sykes' father, the Silver Juggernaut, was not a womanizer and never married. The identity of Sykes' mother is also one of the three unsolved mysteries of Magic Island.How could such a person who was so obsessed with swordsmanship that he gave up his family's title, went to the World of Warcraft Forest to practice, and vowed to enter the magic island, have an illegitimate child?If it weren't for Sykes' resemblance to the Silver Juggernaut, they would all have thought that the child was adopted by the Silver Juggernaut in the Richter family.

Lady Caroline only lived to be 33, and much of her life remains unknown.But everyone who knew her would never forget that magnificent beauty.

……

Sykes saw that Nuoou couldn't recover, and said with a smile: "What I just said is right, you should call me brother, right? After all, you are married to..."

Before Sykes could finish speaking, he was gagged by Ace.

He found Nuoou a little embarrassed. After all, Nuoou questioned the relationship between Ace and Sykes and refused to let him explain.Although to a certain extent, Nou's intuition is not wrong, but since Ace doesn't want to be unable to get into bed at night, he doesn't intend to carefully analyze his teenage thoughts with Nou. Buried in the land of the dead, never to see the light again,

At this moment, he didn't want Nuo Ou to continue to be embarrassed, and he didn't want Sykes to take advantage of Nuo Ou.

Ace said: "It's just in time for you to come. Give me some advice, let's discuss the peace talks with Magic Island." Then he took Noou and walked to the old Skeleton King's palace on the top of the mountain.

……

"Alter's injury won't heal in the short term. Someone needs to take over the position of city lord in the city that never sleeps..."

Ace was standing at the long table in the old Skeletron's palace, also presiding over the meeting.Nou stood beside him.Sykes provided some information about the Pansy Empire and the Magic Island. Alice sat on a chair and looked at the map of the dead world curiously. People of the Dragon Clan would go to the Dragon Tomb after death. Except Norn, she might The only giant dragon that has entered the realm of death in the millennium.

Alice has also stayed in the small plane for a long time, and her understanding of the small plane is as good as that of Bix.

There is also General Arnold beside the long table. He is Ace's subordinate, but he is also a teacher and friend with Ace. Ace will listen to his opinions on the affairs of the Twin Cities; Lich Ingersoll represents the dead world. Among other powers, the Liches are vassals of Skeletron, but to some extent their respective kingdoms have also maintained their independence.

Since most of the people present were friends of Ace, not just subordinates, Ace did not sit on the throne, but sat around a long table with them.

General Arnold suggested: "I think Ingersoll can."

Ace had no objection to this, he thought for a while, and then summoned someone: "Let George come over."

He said: "George can assist Ingersoll and serve as the deputy city lord; Alter continues to rebuild the Nightless Knights."

The city that never sleeps is still a city with a large number of human beings. Ordinary people may not be able to discover the identity of Ingersoll Lich, but senior swordsmen and senior magicians must be able to see through it. George can be on top when he shows up.It will be a long time before Alter recovers the strength of the holy order, but training the knights is no problem,

"As for Evernight City..." Ace felt a headache, "Let's do it as it is. Continue to trap them with a 14-star killing array. Before they eat up their own food, we should also discuss a policy with Magic Island." It's gone." Ace didn't plan to use the granary in the city that never sleeps to support them.

General Arnold asked: "Who does Your Highness plan to bring to the imperial capital?"

This time, they won't make the same mistake and put Skeletor in danger again.

Ace looked at Nou, and Nou nodded at him.In the future, no matter what happens, they will face it together.

Sykes took the initiative: "I will go to the imperial capital with you."

Ace hesitated, "You?"

Of course Sykes knew what he was worried about, "Prince Siben didn't know about our relationship before, but Jacob knew no more. It was Prince Siben, the Royal Knights of the Guards did it so clearly this time, he should be more or less suspicious me."

Both Sykes and Alice are strong in the Holy Order, so Ace naturally did not object.

Sykes also knew Jacob better than other people present, he said: "Jacob is not good at his own strength, what he is good at is the things that astrologers talk about. As long as we don't take the initiative to get into him He is not a big threat to us..."

Hearing this, Ace glanced at Nou lightly. Sykes didn't know that someone had already been fooled by Jacob.

Nou looked back at him coldly.

The corners of Ace's mouth were raised slightly, his eyes melted, and he took the initiative to step back. Of course he knew that Nuoou was for him.

Sykes slammed the table down. He felt that he was enlightening children on the magic island and teaching them swordsmanship.He glared at Ace fiercely, this is a matter of life and death, don't worry about expressing love!

"As long as people from the small plane restrain you, the owner of the magic island will not leave the magic island. The strength of the holy ranks is not much different. You can travel between the world and the world of death. It is more than enough to protect yourself. It's just..." Sai Seeing the attention of the people around him, Kess said to Ace, "Prince Xiben also has an astrology puppet. There have been a total of 11 legendary treasures from Magic Island, and that astrology puppet ranks fourth. Not to be underestimated."

Ace asked strangely: "There are 11 legendary treasures, why have I never heard of them?"

"This is not public information. It's just an internal selection of Magic Island, but since most of the people who have seen them are holy-rank powerhouses, this selection has some basis. In fact, you have seen some of them." Sykes' gaze fell on There were still some red marks on Ace's wrist, which were left by the star chains, and he said: "Some of these 11 legendary treasures are still on the magic island, and more are scattered around.

The star stone is the 10th treasure. It can perfectly limit the magician's use of magic elements. There are 3 pieces in total. on the magic island.There is another piece that has been lost, related to the astrologer's inheritance, the astrological doll.We have too little information about it, so it is ranked 2th; Star Map Inheritance, ranked 1th. "

Sykes focused his eyes on General Arnold again. The legendary armor on General Arnold was dark and deep, "The immortal darkness of the legendary armor, and the sigh of the legendary staff undead were also taken away by the old Skeleton King from the magic island. Ranked 5th and 7th respectively.”

Ace asked in surprise, "Isn't this something from the Dead Realm?"

General Arnold shook his head, "Liches are not good at refining weapons." Even the old Skeleton King is the same.

However, it is more widely circulated that the old Skeleton King kidnapped an alchemist from the magic island, and the old Skeleton King assisted him in refining two legendary magic items with dark attributes in the central city of the dead world.It is not a matter of honor that the magic island cannot protect its own alchemist.General Arnold worried that Ace was too righteous, and did not tell him about the past.

Sykes looked back at Ace again, "The No. 6 is Hai Lan's staff. Back then, the Green family had a famous wizard, and he strengthened the nodes of the magic island. After his death, Hai Lan's staff The stick was sent back to the eastern plains of the Louisiana province. But I heard that the Hailan staff was seriously damaged before it was sent back." Otherwise, the Green family would not be able to keep it safely for these years.

The Green family has not produced a senior magician for so many years. Sykes said that there is still a high possibility that Hai Lan's staff will be completely damaged before it is sent to the Green family.

Ace muttered to himself, why did he feel that most of these things fell into his hands.

"The fourth most famous item is the magic fruit, and there is also the magic spring water. These two things coexist, and there is not much difference." Sykes said: "The two items on the second and third are a little damaged, and they are the water of hope. Stars and astrological puppets."

Nou frowned slightly when he heard Star of Hope.The star of hope is ranked higher than the astrology puppet, which he did not expect.

Ace said: "That astrological puppet has the strength beyond the existence of the holy rank?" As Sykes said, astrologers are not powerful due to innate limitations, and their greatest guarantee is the astrological puppet.Of course, there are also strong men who sell themselves to them in order to obtain the prophecy, but all intelligent creatures have their own will, and the astrological puppets are absolutely loyal.

If it weren't for the astrologers who used too many materials to refine slaves and couldn't repair the astrological puppets, their inheritance would not be broken.Ace said: "If that's the case, why would the owner of the Magic Island give it to Siben Coother?"

With such a powerful magic item, Magic Island may not be able to find the second one.

"The outside world says that Magic Island is a paradise without disputes. The truth is that many people live next to each other and have not known each other for decades. Therefore, except for the information related to itself, the transmission of news about Magic Island is quite slow." Cyke Si shook his head, and said: "I got to know these things after talking with the holy steps imprisoned in Eternal Night City, and they may not be accurate.

It's just that a few years ago, people from a small plane attacked the node, and the owner of the magic island was seriously injured. Although he managed to stop them, he almost fell.

At that time, it happened that Prince Xiben and Princess Muse represented the Pansy Empire and the Finger Empire in Magic Island.Pansy fighting qi and Finger fighting qi may not be the most powerful fighting qi, and their own strength cannot compare with the holy rank of Magic Island, but these two kinds of fighting qi are king fighting qi, and they can exert unexpected effects at the right time effect.

Prince Nishimoto was a level 9 swordsman at that time. He traded with the owner of the magic island. He took magic fruits to help the magic island survive the crisis.At the same time, the disadvantage of taking the magic fruit is that he will lose the possibility of advancing forever.The owner of the magic island gave him a star puppet as compensation.So is Princess Muse. "

It's just that the situation of Princess Muse and Prince Xiben is different.Prince Nishimoto has outstanding talent. He can reach level 9 with his own strength alone, and with the help of Pansy Empire's treasures, he may break through the Juggernaut.Although this takes a long time, the future is even more limitless.Princess Muse's own strength is mediocre, but she suddenly got a magic fruit and advanced to level 9, which is of no harm to her.

No matter what the identities of Prince Xiben and Princess Muse were in their respective empires, in the magic island at that time, they were just ants under the holy rank for a large number of holy rank powerhouses.If they wanted to resist, they would just make them say that they should not respond every day, and that they would not work everywhere.

Sykes guessed that Prince Nishimoto's obsession with power later had a lot to do with his mission to the Magic Island.He has already cut off the possibility of going further in martial arts, so he naturally wants to seize other things to make up for it.Because of this, Prince Nishimoto understands the dangers of people in the small plane to the world better than others. When he asked for help from the magic island, he was still so cold and hard.

"Astrology puppets can rank third among those legendary magic props, which is really extraordinary." Ace asked, "How damaged is the astrology puppets?"

"In the early years, before the astrological puppet was given to Prince Xiben, my father saw it in the small plane." Sykes said: "Facing the invincible holy rank, it has the strength to directly obliterate the holy rank, but if it is against The master of the upper minor plane, it won't last long, and it may even be completely destroyed."

Magic Island is even worried that there are some astrologers' inheritance left in the small plane.If someone on the small plane can repair the astrological puppet, they will give this power beyond the holy rank to the small plane, and they will fall into a greater passive position.

Ace rubbed his chin, smiled playfully, "You all think Siben Coalser will use it against me?"

Noel and Sykes looked at Ace calmly, they really thought so.Now the biggest threat to the throne of Siben Koorser is not Princess Fenfur and Prince Aachen, but Ace. There are millions of troops in the world, but the other two possible heirs to the throne are still in the Northwest and North Sea Islands.

If Ace is allowed to live leisurely, Prince Nishimoto will definitely have trouble sleeping and eating!

General Arnold made a final decision, "Your Highness will take a few more liches to the capital of the Pansy Empire!"

Even if the few liches in the dead world couldn't get away, they captured 18 new holy ranks from the magic island at the moment, and they could always find something interesting.Even if they use holy steps as cannon fodder, they still have to ensure Ace's safety.

……

Ace and the others plan to go to the imperial capital of the Pansy Empire at dawn tomorrow, which is the place where they made an appointment to negotiate with Jacob, and Prince Xiben may also come by then.

In fact, in the dark night, Ace and undead creatures can exert greater strength.

But at that time, Jacob and the astrological puppet could also feel more power of the stars.

To be on the safe side, they still decided to leave during the day.

In the old Skeleton King's palace, only Ace, Nou, and George, who had just been summoned by them, remained.

George was sent by Ace many years ago to co-lead the Io Mercenaries with Jerrold Horsley.Now, he is also a level 7 swordsman. With the influence of the Aio mercenary group, George also has a lot of fame in the Pansy Empire.

Later, Ace conquered the Territory of Chaos, because George was born in the Hundred-Men Assassin Group, and the Hundred-Men Assassin Group is one of the two major forces in the central city of the Territory of Chaos, Ace let him bring some members of the Io Mercenary Group to stay Territory of chaos.

Nou said: "So, the last mission you received in the Hundred-Men Assassin Group was to assassinate Earl Homer? The mission was successful, but you were found by the guards of Rose Castle, and you were seriously injured. The viscount found out and rescued him?"

"At that time, I thought I was going to die. It turned out that Viscount Neumann sent Mrs. Caroline back to Bad Soden Manor, and then returned to the imperial capital. Viscount Neumann is a good man, he saved me." George said.

Neither Ace nor Nou felt that Viscount Neumann was out of kindness and saved George for no reason.He kept George, not for George's force, but also for His Majesty Ludwig IV.George should also have recollection of these years.But, firstly, Viscount Neumann did save his life; secondly, he would never say anything bad about Viscount Neumann in front of Ace.

Nou said, "Go ahead."

George honestly confessed, "At that time, I was already tired of walking in the dark. That mission was indeed narrowly escaped death, and the Hundred Assassin Group probably thought I was dead. I quietly survived under anonymity. Viscount Neumann was willing to take me in. , I also wanted to repay him, so I followed him back to Bad Soden Manor."

Nou and Ace looked at each other.This incident cannot be completely blamed on George, he is just a knife in the hands of His Majesty Ludwig IV.

George was born in the Hundred Assassins, and his life gave him no other choice.

Ace said: "Go down. Pay more attention to the affairs of the city that never sleeps, and help Ingersoll well."

When George left, Ace felt another headache.George is his subordinate, and handing George over will definitely chill the hearts of the people below; the one who sent him was His Majesty Ludwig IV, and he couldn't move.

Nuo Ou wanted to comfort Ace, but was preempted by Ace, "After all, it is what you promised."

Ace doesn't want Nuoou to break his promise.In order to get in touch with Jacob, Noel promised Countess Marina Homer to find the murderer who killed her father, but it turned out that the man was Ace's early attendant George.

Ace thought that Earl Homer was not weak in his lifetime, and his soul fire in the dead world may not have been extinguished.He resolved to look for it carefully.Finding Lord Homer would surely comfort her more than bringing George to Countess Marina Homer.

Ace said, "Let me think again."

Ace didn't dare to promise Nou.

The death rate of the undead in the undead is too high, even if he is willing to look for a needle in a haystack, Earl Homer's undead does not know whether it is there or not.

Nou didn't pay much attention to this matter.The catastrophe of the times is coming, and he can always find other ways to repay the debt he owes to Countess Marina Homer.For them, the contest with Jakob and Sieben Koauser will be more important in the near future.This is not only related to their future, but also related to the future structure of these three planes.

Oriental fish maw is slightly white.

The red sun is about to rise.

A new era is coming.