Skeleton King

The capital of the Pansy Empire.

Snowflakes fell profusely on the branches of the trees, on the eaves, on the haystacks, and on the brims of the children's hats.The white snowflakes piled up higher and higher, and the imperial capital was dressed up like a city of clouds.

This is the first snow of the year for the empire.

All vitality has been buried deep in the ground, only the bitter wind howling on the street.

Angelica watched as the attendants brought in the wood from the outside and put it in the fireplace, burning the whole palace red.Not long after, the bedroom was as warm as a spring day. Angelica took off the luxurious black fox fur and put it on the bench.The maid in the bedroom hurried over and hung it on the hanger beside the door.

There are quite a few attendants and maids in the dormitory at the moment, this place is very big, but it is also incredibly quiet.It's not the quietness that understands the rules, but everyone is cautious, even holding their breath, and they all wish they didn't exist.The Pansy Palace is not peaceful these days. If there is no princess there, wherever Prince Xiben appears, they would like to put on their wings and escape.

Angelica's brown eyes were still gentle and demure. Only when she saw Prince Nishimoto, she would slightly raise the corners of her mouth and smile noble and charming.

She is more and more like the princess of this empire.

She straightened her chest, revealing her slender neck, and her face as bright as the moon glowed with a faint milky white light. She is familiar with the history of the empire and can appreciate music and famous paintings. She is not the kind of noble girl who is used to decorate the facade. She is real He is quite knowledgeable about these and can express his own unique insights.No one can tell her origin anymore - the daughter of a peasant sold by a peasant in a remote village in the empire.

At the Nuanyang wedding, many people were fascinated by her elegant temperament and fell under her pomegranate skirt.

No one would not bless the couple at the wedding.

Their love cannot be deceived.

Prince Nishimoto also loved his new wife wholeheartedly.He walked slowly to the side of his princess, and hooked her hair hanging on the side of her cheeks behind her ears. He didn't speak, but his movements were extremely gentle.

He said: "I'm going out. At noon, if I don't come back in time, you can eat by yourself."

Angelica gently helped Prince Nishimoto straighten his collar. When Prince Nishimoto looked down at her, the two looked at each other and smiled.Angelica said: "I will wait for you."

Prince Xiben glanced at her long brown hair and fair face, and said softly, "Why are you so disobedient?"

Angelika's voice was gentle and gentle, "Your Highness, waiting is a kind of happiness when you meet someone you like. Please don't deprive me of happiness." This is clearly a sentence of love, but she said it plainly, and she can easily hit it human heart.

How could Prince Xiben refuse her.

Prince Xiben's hand caressed her cheek, and then fell on her slender neck. He felt the fragility of life under his hands. As long as he exerted a little force, the woman who touched his heart would decay and wither like winter flowers. .But the existence of this woman is so miraculous that she can bring him great happiness without any effort.

Prince Nishimoto will never regret asking Myron Scholar to gift Angelica the love potion.

will never.

……

Angelica watched her husband, her prince, the most powerful man in the empire and the most powerful general leave the bedroom.He once defeated the Jowett family's army in the north of the empire, and broke through the Juggernaut in his twenties.

His broad shoulders can shield her from the wind and rain; his gentle fingers can draw green eyebrows for her.

And his love is enough to make all the women in the world intoxicated.

Her thoughts drifted to the days after their wedding.

The Mellon University scholar told him the identity of the Star University scholar, that the Duke of Green and Jacob, the envoy of the Magic Island, disappeared at the same time, and Jacob came to see him yesterday, saying that the Magic Island would negotiate peace with the Twin Cities.

Angelica knew that Prince Nishimoto would not agree.

But even Prince Nishimoto's anger is like a black cloud, layer upon layer.From the confidant of Prince Nishimoto to the humblest maid in the palace, they all sensed it.Prince Xiben had never lost his temper in front of Angelica, even though the source of everything was Ace Neumann, the young master Angelica had served for many years.He had countless reasons to anger her, but he didn't do it.

He regards her as a crystal clear glass flower, fragile and beautiful.

He takes care of it.

Angelica's thoughts drifted back to the long past.

At that time, they were still at the Bad Soden Manor, and the young Angela asked her quietly why she felt that Lady Caroline didn't love Viscount Neumann at all.

Her innocent and ignorant younger sister always has the keenest intuition, and can easily point to people's true hearts.

Before Angelica answered her, the words reached Mrs. Caroline's ears.Angelica will never forget Mrs. Caroline's smile at that time, it was so beautiful, and so affectionate, she seemed to recall someone, and the unrecovered love in her eyes easily frightened her heart.

Mrs. Caroline told Angela that moving and guilt can produce feelings close to love, but such feelings are as short as brilliant fireworks, and only true love can be rooted in our hearts for a long time.

……

The location of the tripartite talks was at Rose Castle.

In winter, Rose Castle is also in full bloom because of the magic circle.Red roses symbolize hot love, and white roses symbolize pure love.There is also a small cluster of blue roses in the corner, which is not eye-catching, but it is especially beautiful under the reflection of the first snow.

When Prince Xiben arrived, Ace and Nou had also arrived.

Sykes, Silver Dragon Alice, and others from the Twin Cities did not appear in Rose Castle.

The sun gradually rose, and the warm sunlight shone on everyone, but it didn't bring any warmth.Prince Xiben stared at Ace in a long silence, and then turned his gaze to Nou.

Prince Xiben just pretended that he didn't see Ace, he knew that he couldn't do anything to Ace in the short term, he spoke to Nou first, "Nou Green, you betrayed me earlier than I thought. "Or, Nuoou never really gave his allegiance to him.

Although Ace didn't know what Prince Xiben wanted to say to Nuoou, it would definitely not be the usual cordial greeting.He walked to the edge of Rose Castle and seemed to be interested in the wine placed on the stone table.He didn't want to embarrass Nou.

Ace knew what it would be like for Noou to stand by his side.He also knew that Nou didn't want him to feel grateful for it.

"His Royal Highness Prince Xiben, I am sincerely loyal to you when I am in the hunting ground." Nou said: "But I am the head of the Green family first, and then your vassal. If the magic island goes according to the original plan, little one The people from the other side landed, and the Louisiana province near the coast of the Netherlands was the first battlefield between the two planes, and I couldn't watch my subjects fall into the flames of war."

"It's all come to this point, and you've already made your choice, so do you still need to deliberately hide from me?" Prince Xiben dismissed Nuoou's words, "Regardless of whether there is a matter of the small plane or not, you will stand on the side of AI. Neumann's side."

Nuoou didn't make any more excuses, he said: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your understanding."

"Ha." Prince Xiben became even more angry, and he said: "Although you have made the choice you think is correct, do you really understand Ace Neumann and the Keosi family? Even if he is willing to have sex with Neumann Man, he didn't cry and want to join the family tree of the Keosi family, and he couldn't escape the curse of the Keosi family either!"

Nou has never heard of this, "Curse?"

Prince Xiben already knew what Nou was thinking. When they met in Rose Castle last time, he also thought he had guessed what happened to Ace and Nou recently, "How did Ace Neumann convince you to help him?" Leaving prison? His sacrifice was great enough." Coorser's blood would never find the love of the man they truly loved.

"Noah Green, as long as you really love him, he will never fall in love with you." The curse of the astrologer is on the blood of the Koorser family, and why not to those who really love the Keorser family? People's people.

Prince Xiben said so, and he thought so too.He thought he caught Nou's weakness.He showed his arrogance and condescension to the fullest.

Nou said: "We can wait and see."

……

Ace came back with Jacob.

Jacob brought the conditions of the Magic Island, "The Dead Realm must let the 30 troops outside the Eternal Night City leave, and release all the holy ranks from the Magic Island who were captured by the Twin Cities. The Nightless City and the Dead Realm must cooperate with the Magic Island, the Three The Viola Empire, the Finger Empire, and the Dragon Island jointly resist the invasion of the small plane. The Magic Island will also support the Nightless City and the Dead Realm as much as possible. After the war, the Magic Island and the two empires will recognize the Nightless City and the Territory of Chaos The independence of the cities within, I swear that I will never take the initiative to take action against these cities and the city owners of the city that never sleeps."

Prince Xiben snorted coldly.But no one paid him any attention.

"There is no problem with the 30 troops outside the Eternal Night City. We can even help you send them to the Magic Island." Ace regretted, "There are 30 holy ranks in the Magic Island that we captured, and 12 of them were killed because of the eternal night. The battle situation in the city is in crisis, and they have already been transformed into liches. Do you still want them? There are still 18 holy ranks who have just started to transform, and they should be able to stop."

Facially paralyzed like Jacob, the muscles on his face twitched slightly when he heard Ace's words. The liches transformed by the Skeleton King are unshakably loyal to the Skeleton King above their own thoughts.What does the magical island want to do with the detailed work of the Skeleton King with 12 holy ranks?

"They can stay in the dead world in the future." Jacob said: "However, when the war on the small plane requires them, they must also participate in the battle."

The node of the magic island is broken, and it will not do him any good.If conditions permit, Ace is also willing to help Magic Island.

"I was also born in this land, and I don't want people from the small plane to occupy this place." Ace said, "I can send the Skeleton Knights to the small plane, but how does Magic Island plan to increase their chances of survival?"

The number of undead is increasing every moment, but the area of ​​the undead is limited.Every year, the undead lords will ask the skeleton soldiers in their jurisdiction to carry out several suicide attacks, sometimes attacking a nearby big city, and sometimes directly asking them to attack the famous dead place, so as not to have too many skeleton soldiers and occupy the territory. Too many resources.

It's not the elite Skull Knights, but ordinary cannon fodder. Ace doesn't feel bad at all when he is sent to the small plane.

But Ace still wants to leave some opportunities for the skeleton soldiers. When a large number of undead creatures die, it is most likely to give birth to a powerful undead lord.

This is not only for those skeleton soldiers, but also to make the dead world stronger.

Next, Ace and Jacob had a heated negotiation on which tasks the Skull Knights should send to Magic Island and how many magic items with dark attributes should be provided to them.

These two spokespersons of the most powerful forces in their respective planes came and went at the negotiating table, "killing" until blood was flying.Because they know that every attack and retreat they make at this time will change the fate of countless people/undead creatures, and will also have a great impact on their power.

In the end, because Ace was the winner of this war, he had more right to speak on the negotiating table. After squeezing the magic island as much as possible, he and Jacob began to discuss other conditions.

Ace said: "You must give me the damaged Star of Hope and the information about it." He was also concerned about the wound on Nuoou's soul fire.

"Yes." Jacob had no objection, but he also made a request, "About the small plane, Magic Island has one more thing to ask the Lord of the Night City. Magic Island hopes that the Lord of the Night City and Duke Green can go to the Magic Island in person, with my The teacher talks about it. I make sure it's important enough to decide the outcome of this battle."

"Do you want us to go to Magic Island?" Nou asked, "How do you ensure our safety?" They are negotiating now, but not to the point where there is no grudge.

Jacob said: "I can swear. Magic Island will not attack you."

Ace said: "We can go to Magic Island with you, but we have two requirements."

Jacob made a gesture of all ears.

Ace said: "First, you must stay with us while we are in Magic Island; second, the 30 troops outside the city of Eternal Night and the holy captives of Magic Island must be negotiated with the owner of Magic Island." Release after the end." Ace is indeed full of curiosity about the most powerful force on this continent, and if possible, after the conversation with the owner of the magic island, he would like to visit the small plane.

He must know what kind of enemy he will face alone.

Jacob looked extremely frank, he said without hesitation: "Yes."

……

Ace and Jacob each sent back the terms of the negotiation to the Twin Cities and Magic Island.After the two major forces are determined, they will first sign a contract here.

Nou stood beside Ace.

Ace magically constructed a soundproof enclosure, making sure no one else could hear them talking.

Nou said: "There is something wrong with Prince Xiben." According to his understanding of Prince Xiben, it is impossible for him to watch Ace and Magic Island reach an agreement so quietly. Watch Ace join the alliance they're in.

Obviously, Prince Nishimoto can only rely on Magic Island to compete with Ace. If Magic Island betrays Ace, his throne will be safe and secure. It really depends on Ace's mood.

He will never allow this to happen.

Even if it puts the empire in jeopardy.

Nor would he allow himself to be a fish on the cutting board.