Skeleton King

Noel Green: "Have you got the staff?"

Noel Green has never seen the legendary staff at home, let alone what its attributes are. Now that the man in black is so sure, most of the legendary staffs have already been obtained.

The man in black said leisurely: "Yes. Your uncle gave it to you after you disappeared."

He looked at Noah Green and Ace lazily, with a casual smile on his lips.Different from the old man with shaved hair and dry skin in Ace's original vision, the young man in front of Ace has thick brown middle-length hair, sparse eyebrows, and pale skin, just like the sick and noble son in the bard's mouth.

However, the magician's true age cannot be seen from his appearance, and the person in front of him may be more than 100 years old.

What would a kidnapper who showed his true face in front of the meat ticket do?He will definitely tear up the ticket, lest the little meat ticket in front of him go out alive and paste his portrait all over the streets and alleys of the empire.

Ace was both curious and dissatisfied: "Master Mage, why did you arrest me?"

The man in black looked at Ace with a half-smile: "Aren't you pretending? Are you not hiding in the corner and shivering now?"

Ace sighed in his heart, the man in black came suddenly, and he didn't know his purpose, so Ace didn't prepare the character design in advance.Ace gave the man in black a cool look, "Aren't you pretending?" Don't pretend to be a ghost, covered in a black robe, and his voice is so hoarse and ugly that it makes people want to cover their ears immediately.

The man in black looked at Ace, and both of them smelled something of the same kind.

The man in black said to Ace: "I thought you were Noel Green. He just came out to stand up to you and arrested you all just in case."

Only then did Ace realize that he was being smart.The man in black may have listened to their conversation, or may have found something else. At this time, it has been determined which one is Nou Green.

Ace said without hope: "Then can you let me go? Anyway, I'm not the one you want to catch."

The man in black glanced at Ace: "You are very smart, you should know it well."

Ace sat on the ground, and didn't bother to pretend, he was already cold anyway.

Noel Green: "I never thought that my uncle would pay such a high price for my life, and I never thought that someone would have the courage to face the anger of the Lin family. The Green family's prestige in the empire for hundreds of years, if you can really keep it a secret That's all, if you can't, you will pay the price sooner or later!"

The man in black was noncommittal. The Knights of the Green family did have a great reputation, but if he was worried about this, he would not have taken away the only son of the Duke of Green.

Noel Green's threat, to the man in black, looked like an ant waving his thin arms and legs in front of an elephant, and he needed a magnifying glass to see it.He captured Ace and Noel Green without even tying the ropes, just confident that they could not escape from him.

The man in black threw two pieces of bread and a bag of water at the feet of Ace and Noel Green, "I originally planned to kill you. Your uncle even thought you were dead, but when I saw you , changed my mind again."

Under the cold eyes of Nou Green, the black robe said humanely: "You are about to break through the fourth level, and the talent fighting spirit is about to awaken. In my laboratory, I am short of an experimental product of Hailan fighting spirit."

After the man in black finished speaking, he turned and left the secret room, and Ace and Noel Green could no longer see anything.

After a while, Ace asked in a low voice: "What is Hailan fighting spirit? Green, is it your family's talent fighting spirit?"

"Well." Noel Green responded silently, and said again: "Neumann, if you have a chance, don't worry about me, just live as much as possible."

Ace picked up a piece of bread from the ground, tore off the dirty part, took a bite, and said, "Green, don't be afraid, death may not be a new beginning."

Ace handed Noel Green another piece of bread.

Noel Green didn't want to eat it at first, but the sound of Ace chewing kept coming from his ears. He thought about it and started to eat it too.In case he could escape, he didn't want to ruin his last chance because of lack of energy.

After Ace finished eating the bread, he shared the bag of water with Noel Green and started chatting. After staying in the secret room for these days, if there is no one around him who can talk, both of them will go crazy, "This year's participation in the Cavaliers Most of the swordsmen in the group trial are only at the first or second level, and at most they are only in the early third level. I didn't expect that you are almost at the fourth level."

The third-level swordsman is a junior swordsman, and the fourth-level swordsman is an intermediate swordsman. These are two completely different realms.As long as the IQ is normal and the physique is not too bad, most people can become a first-level swordsman, and those who practice hard can hope to become a third-level swordsman, and most people's lifetime achievements are limited to this.

For example, Viscount Neumann, he was a third-level swordsman in the Knights, and now, 20 years later, he is still the same.

Level three to level four is a watershed.

In the eyes of many people, the swordsman's fighting spirit is the real inflow.

Noel Green: "When I was in Green Castle, my uncle was very kind to me. He gave me the best carriage, the most beautiful clothes, and the most lovely maid. When I didn't want to study and practice martial arts, he It's up to me too. At that time, the teacher went to the imperial capital, and few people in the castle dared to disobey uncle, so my life was quite smooth."

"Later, the teacher came back from the imperial capital. He not only brought back His Majesty's will, but also severely reprimanded his uncle. The teacher is a well-known scholar in the entire Pansy Empire, and he is also very prestigious in the castle. He is in front of everyone. Refuting Uncle's face, said Uncle, 'You just have bad intentions and want to adopt the last heir of the Green family!'”

Ace: "You know in your heart that what your teacher said is correct." Otherwise, it would be impossible to remember so clearly.

Noah Green hesitated, "Probably so. However, at that time, I was only a little over ten years old, and my uncle was my closest elder. I didn't want to believe that he wanted to kill me. The teacher said that my uncle would hollow out the Green family. I also think it's nothing. As long as the family's title and fief are still there, I can earn back all of this. I even told my uncle what I think."

Ace frowned.

Noah Green: "Uncle said, he didn't want me to be outstanding. He said he was very inferior, because my father stood in front of him like an insurmountable mountain. No matter what my father did, he was excellent, and he couldn't match it. .He doesn’t want Gabriel to feel that way in the future. He doesn’t want to bother him and Gabriel.”

Ace said softly, "Do you believe it?"

In Ace's view, this is simply nonsense.Because he was worried about his son's inferiority complex, he asked his nephew not to study cultivation.

Noel Green's back leaned against the wall of the secret room, and he mocked: "I believe it, uncle still shed a few crocodile tears at that time."

Ace: "If you don't practice martial arts like this, you are almost reaching the fourth-level swordsman. So your uncle can't sit still, did you find that magician?"

Noah Green: "Uncle, he didn't know about my practice at all. I didn't want to put too much pressure on Gabriel. Except for a few routine practice, I spent most of my time learning how to manage the fief with the teacher. The teacher said, management It's never too late to learn about fiefdoms, marching and fighting, but there is no one in a million who starts to practice martial arts and achieves great achievements after the bones have grown."

"Later, I studied with my teacher during the day, and sometimes went hunting with my uncle and the others. I only practiced martial arts when my uncle was not in the castle. Around that time, I was in a good mood. Although the time of practicing martial arts was not as long as before, the effect of practice It’s twice the result with half the effort. Thinking about it now, in fact, I was subconsciously guarding against my uncle.”

Ace: "So when you arrived at the Georgia Knights' courtyard, you were still riding in a carriage?"

Noel Green smiled, and said: "Yes, nobles, especially teenagers of our age, feel that riding a horse is majestic. So when I saw you at the gate of the other courtyard, I thought you were in the same situation as me .”

Ace laughed dryly.

Noah Green: "Actually, uncle should have thought that he raised me and abandoned me. Unexpectedly, just like that, he still didn't let me go. Not only the title and fiefdom of the Green family, but he also wanted my life. Alone It can become so terrifying."

Ace: "Maybe he was like that."

Noel Green shook his head, "Sometimes, I envy you, knowing what you want to do."

Ace: "If you could get out alive, what would you do? Would you kill your uncle and cousin?"

The secret room was quiet for a long time.

"I don't know." Noel Green said.

Ace and Noel Green didn't know how long they had been in the secret room.When the man in black brought them bread and water for the sixth time, Ace decided not to sit still.

Ace: "Baiweihua, Yongxiangguo, Chirp's magic crystal powder..."

The man in black robe was a little surprised, "Can you smell it?"

Ace: "It's not difficult. Your cuffs are shiny, with a little red in the white, which is obviously the magic crystal powder of Chirp. And white myrtle flower and eternal fragrance fruit can be used as anesthetics in a small amount, but they can be used in your You've used at least 2 ounces with that strong smell left on you. As for what you're going to do with these things mixed together, I don't know."

The man in black didn't say anything, but turned and left.

When he entered the secret room to deliver bread, he handed Noah Green a bottle of magic potion.

Noel Green didn't take it. Eating the food of the man in black is not the same as drinking his magic potion.Legend has it that some magical potions can confuse people's minds and directly turn people into puppets.Noel Green can accept that he is inferior to others and die here, but he can't accept that he becomes someone else's puppet, giving the man in black the opportunity to remotely control the eastern plains of the Louisiana province.

The black-robed man kept on handing the magic potion to Nou Green, but Nou Green didn't intend to take it at all, and the two of them were deadlocked.

Ace walked among them, sniffed the magic potion, and said: "The magic potion that purifies the impurities in the swordsman's body is still very pure. But there are many kinds of magic potions. I don't know if he added anything else to it. Got it." The last sentence, he said to Noah Green.

A magic potion that purifies the body of impurities. When taking it, the swordsman's mind must be exercised.

If Nou Green didn't take the initiative to drink, the man in black would have nothing to do.The man in black saw that Noah Green had no intention of accepting it at all, and he stopped trying to persuade him. He directly grabbed Ace's hand and dragged Ace out.

Really drag.

Because of Ace's unpreparedness, most of him fell to the ground, and the man in black ignored him and led him out of the secret room.

Noel Green ran to the door of the secret room and shouted: "What are you doing?" But his voice quickly disappeared as the door of the secret room was closed.

The man in black led Ace through the long corridor, walked to the front of a laboratory, pointed to the table on the far left of the laboratory, and asked him, "Can you tell the difference between herbs?"

Ace: "Yes."

The man in black: "Okay, I'll teach you how to make magic potion. After you're done making it, give it to the kid from the Green family to drink. He doesn't believe what I made, but he should believe it when you made it yourself."

Ace was shocked: "Magic potion, how can I do this?! What if the magic potion I made drank Green to death?! It is useful for you to keep him?!"

The man in black: "If he doesn't drink the magic potion I made, he will drink yours. If he can't break through level four, you two can go to the world of the dead together."

Can live who wants to die?

Ace tried to persuade the man in black: "I'm not even a magic apprentice. I don't know how long it will take to learn how to make magic potions." Ace practiced undead magic, which is a magic element with dark attributes. , but what he was meditating on was serious magic elements of the light attribute, and the two of them were not in the same system at all.Therefore, the man in black can't feel that Ace is a third-level necromancer at all.

The man in black: "It's nothing, you just follow the same pattern and do it."

Ace: ...

Ace: "Actually, I have only known Green for a few days, maybe ten days. I don't know how long time has passed in your damn secret room. Green's trust in me is limited. The magic potion I made, he Not necessarily willing to drink."

The man in black said impatiently: "Since I called you here, I am sure that he will drink the magic potion you made. You are so long-winded."

Ace: "I know that Green's teacher is in his family's fief. As long as you can find him and ask him to make magic potions, Green will definitely drink them. And his teacher is very knowledgeable, and the success rate of making potions is much higher than mine. of."

Scholars who are famous throughout the empire must be guarded by them. As long as the black-robed man throws himself into the net, even if they cannot kill the black-robed man, they will still get clues. When the time comes, they may not be able to find this place by following the vine.

However, the man in black pointed at Ace with his pale index finger, and he was no longer willing to talk nonsense with him.

Ace had no choice but to follow the man in black to the experimental table.

Funnels, measuring cups, glass rods, crucibles...

Everything in front was just normal, until Ace saw an orange flame, and he murmured, "Yanghuo."

The man in black was also a little surprised, "Boy, you know more than I thought. If I hadn't caught you in the Georgia Knights' trial, I would have thought you were a magic apprentice."

Ace shook his head and said: "In the place where I was born, there is such a legend. Where ghosts gather, there will be Yinhuo, and the best magic potion is made of Yanghuo. Old people know that Yinhuo is white. If you see a white flame, you must avoid it, so as not to be deported to the world of death if your lifespan is short. If you see an orange flame, it is a sun fire, and you also need to avoid it."

The man in black raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?"

Ace: "Because in the eyes of magicians, the lives of ordinary people are no different from cattle and sheep. They use Yanghuo, most of which are doing important magic experiments, and they will not notice the arrival of a few ordinary people with no identity. To die at the hands of a magician is to die in vain most of the time."

The man in black: ...

"It makes sense." The black robe said humanely: "But it's not an important experiment right now, it's just that using Yanghuo can increase your success rate of making magic potions. Look at the herbs and magic crystals here, you can recognize them all, right?"

Ace carefully looked at the herbs on the table on the left, but from the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but glance at Yanghuo on the table.

Both yang fire and yin fire are very rare types of fire.

It is said that the person who controls two kinds of flames at the same time will have incredible power.However, although Yanghuo is rare, you can still find it at a high price, but Yinhuo only exists in the realm of the dead. How many living people have been to the realm of the dead?

Ace felt the gauntlet on his left wrist.Noel Green's space ring was taken away by the man in black, but I don't know if the man in black didn't come to search Ace's body, or Ace's wristband was too ordinary, and the man in black found it and didn't take it away. .

At this time, Ace's wristband was quietly burning with a dark fire.

In the Skeleton King's tomb, Daniel took it out of the trap in the passage and gave it to Ace.

This idea only swirled in Ace's mind for a while, and then he put it on hold. Now he has to deal with the man in black first.Ace glanced at the herbs and magic crystals in front of him, they were all very common types, and he knew them all.

But in order not to arouse the suspicion of the man in black, Ace still pointed to a blue magic crystal and asked, "What is this?"

The man in black: "The magic crystal of the snow eel."

Ace turned his gaze to a white flower with two red marks on the petals, "What is this?"

The man in black: "The clown flower."

Ace nodded, "I can recognize the rest."

The man in black took Ace's two random tests and found that he did recognize them all, so he directly took some herbs with his hands, "Follow me." That's what he said to Ace.

Ace: "But, but don't I have to watch you make it a few times?"

The man in black said indifferently: "As long as you make a finished product, you can give it to the Green family kid."

Ace said coolly, "What a waste of your herbs and magic crystals."

The man in black: "Which magic apprentice does not waste a little material, and a person who is in awe of materials will never become a great pharmacist."

While paying attention to the movements of the man in black, Ace sang against him, "Most people don't want to be a sword master, but also a mage. How many people want to be a great pharmacist?"

The black-robed man may have not spoken for too long and was too bored, or maybe he just couldn’t hear Ace’s disagreement with him. He said: “A great pharmacist is not necessarily a mage, but mages are all outstanding. Pharmacist. What do you think a magician is? Can you only read spells and release two small fireballs? A real magician knows everything from the arrangement of the stars to the habits of the grass under his feet. Only by understanding this world can we have such a powerful strength.”

Following the actions of the man in black robe, Ace put the ground snow eel's magic crystal powder into the crucible, and then the medicine in the crucible did not turn into a viscous blue liquid like the man in black robe, but burst out There was a puff of white smoke, and cracks appeared on the edge of the crucible.

Ace stared blankly at the man in black.

With a wave of the man in black, the cauldron in front of Ace has been restored to its original state, and the potion inside has disappeared, "Come again!"

In the cramped laboratory, under the dim light, a magician is constantly teaching a teenager how to make magic potions.If you are a nervous person, you will smile and praise this scene, "This great magician is so patient."

But in the eyes of other people who observe carefully, you will find that the side of the boy's body close to the great magician is obviously stiff. His eyes seem calm, but deep down there is an indelible uneasiness.