Skeleton King

Bad Soden Manor.

Even if it is Pansy Moon, today's Butter Soden Manor is too exquisitely decorated. All the trees in the manor are tied with white ribbons, and the servants are all beaming. Shuttle briskly through every corner of the manor.

At the gate of the manor, carriages stopped constantly, and ladies and ladies wearing gorgeous coats got out of the carriages.

They stepped into the manor and arrived at the newly decorated hall. On the ceiling of the hall are extremely exquisite murals. On the murals are dozens of lovely children. Although these children are lifelike, they cannot be painted by ordinary painters, but the most amazing It is the eyes of these children. At first glance, people think that they are painted by painters with paints, but in fact, they are inlaid with magic crystals of level 3 fire monsters.

These dozens of magic crystals ensure that the hall is as warm as spring in this snowy day.

As soon as the ladies entered the hall, they felt that their coats were heavy, but before they could do it themselves, the considerate gentleman beside them helped them take off their coats.

The ladies are all wearing exquisite and gorgeous long dresses which are the most popular nowadays. They show their snow-white shoulders and plump breasts. They hold wine glasses and stand together in twos and threes, talking about this blessed wedding.

Ace was standing on the second floor of the hall. He was wearing a royal blue dress today, putting away his usual carefree appearance, like a well-mannered noble young master.

Ace: "I've never seen such a lively scene in the manor."

Angelica stood behind Ace as always, and she said: "Yes, Bad Soden has not had a lord hold a wedding here for decades."

Although Ace had expected so much in his heart, he never thought that Viscount Neumann would really remarry, and it was still now.At this moment, there was something indescribable in his heart.

It seemed that the things he had worried about for a long time disappeared all of a sudden, and it seemed that he was at a loss without a goal.

Viscount Neumann's letter was sent to Bremen City, and then forwarded to Angelica by the housekeeper of Nou Bremen City Villa, and then Angelica contacted Ace, after several rounds, Ace hurried When I hurried back to Bad Soden, it was already the day before the wedding.

Viscount Neumann didn't blame Ace for coming back so late.

The father and son just had dinner quietly, and Viscount Neumann also mentioned a little about his mother with Est, "For some reason, my wedding with Caroline was rushed and there was no invitation. Relatives and friends, without even getting permission from Baron Attlee."

Lady Caroline's biological father was a minor nobleman in the imperial capital, Baron Attlee, and Caroline was also the youngest daughter of Baron Attlee.Baron Attlee's family always had many children, and Caroline didn't get a lot of attention at first, but since she was very young, she has shown amazing beauty and the ability to make everyone like her.

Viscount Neumann may have been drinking too much, or he may be about to enter a new marriage, and he has some other thoughts. This night, he rarely talked a lot, "The day we decided to get married, the sky in the imperial capital was already It was very late, and even the scholars who gave lectures on the street could not be found. But the wedding, only when the scholars host it, will it be recognized by the laws of the empire. We have been walking around the streets of the imperial capital, and finally, we met a A scholar who originally served the court and gave lectures to the prince."

"At that time, the late king was dying. The situation in the imperial capital was very chaotic, and the scholars in the court were inevitably affected. Caroline and I told him about our love and our desire to be together. He was very moved and made an exception. Officiated the wedding for us. Originally, I thought it would be my happiest moment, the only wedding in my life."

Afterwards, Viscount Neumann didn't speak any more. He held his wine glass and quietly looked at the shrubs in the manor. In early summer, the whole manor would be covered with red roses.

After Caroline came to Bad Soden, he personally planted it for Caroline's joy.Roses are enchanting and beautiful, but there are tiny skin thorns on the petioles, which can hurt people's hands if they are not careful.

Last night, Ace stayed with Viscount Neumann until late at night, and he went to the Dead Realm to meet General Arnold. By the time he left today, many distinguished guests had already arrived at the manor.

But now, no nobles have been invited to enter the gate of the manor for a long time, and the wedding is about to begin.

The scholar had already stood at the front of the hall. Amid the cheers of the crowd, Viscount Neumann also stood beside the scholar.

Viscount Neumann was different from his usual seriousness and seriousness. He had a gentle smile on his face and greeted the nobles present cordially.Almost all nobles have been exposed to it since childhood, and they are at home in such occasions.

The band played soothing music, and the door of the previously closed hall was opened by the flower girl.

A man under the age of 40 walked into the hall slowly, holding a young girl in a white gauze on his arm.Although the bride's wedding dress is made loose, it can still be seen that her figure is different from the current aristocratic aesthetics. She is fleshy, not fat, but slightly plump.

Angelica stood beside Ace and said softly: "The one holding the bride is Governor Graf, and the bride is his sister. She is 26 years old this year. I heard that she is not very beautiful."

In the Pansy Empire, commoner girls were mostly married at the age of 16, and aristocratic girls were a little later, but only around the age of 18.If you meet an aristocratic girl who loves to play and whose family is not very strict, you may get married in your 20s, but after 25, you are an old girl anyway.

Ace listened to the scholar's blessing, Viscount Neumann and his bride swore to each other, and Viscount Neumann slowly lifted the bride's veil.Among the nobles who are full of beauties, the bride is indeed born ordinary, but she has calm brows and eyes, and seems to have a gentle temperament.

I don't know where there was a sigh. Compared with Mrs. Caroline, who has swept the Westphalia province with her reputation of beauty, this bride is too ordinary.Some invited guests couldn't restrain their disappointment and sighed.

But this is just a small episode of the wedding. Overall, the wedding is warm and touching.

Ace stayed in Bad Soden for a few more days. Except for the lunch on the second day of the wedding, when Viscount Neumann asked Ace to call his new wife "mother", Ace basically never saw the new wife of Bad Soden Manor. hostess.

Ace didn't call the new Viscountess mother, nor did Viscount Neumann insist.

When Ace was about to return to Bremen, Viscount Neumann told him, "Ace, don't take sides prematurely in the struggle for power, unless you meet someone you want to support even if you die."

Viscount Neumann said this suddenly, and Ace didn't know whether Viscount Neumann meant that he got too close to Nou or something else.

Although Ace wanted to ask Viscount Neumann many things, he could see that Viscount Neumann didn't want to mention it, so he just said, "Understood, father."

There were many boxes in the carriage, and Ace left Bad Soden on a horse, which was rare.

Viscount Neumann watched Ace gradually leave this ordinary small village and head for a distant place.

No one knows how far this young man will go in the future.

Ace rode another distance in the direction of Bremen, then got off the horse and got into the carriage.

On the carriage, Ace quietly installed two wind magic crystals, which cannot be seen from the outside, but sitting inside, it is extremely stable, and basically does not feel the bumps.Angelica is holding a needle and making clothes for Ace. There is a wooden box next to her, and there will be noises coming from it from time to time.

Ace sat down opposite Angelica, took the wooden box and put it on his lap.He opened the wooden box, and inside was a little golden dragon, Norn, the son of Ace.

When Norn saw Ace release it from the wooden box, his first reaction was to slap Ace in the face with the dragon wings.

Ace was swept away by it, seeing that it was going to take another shot, he quickly grabbed the little golden dragon's wings with both hands, "Oh, Norn, be good..."

Although Ace is a fourth-level necromancer, his swordsman's strength is only second-level. What's more, at the same level, the physical strength of human beings is far inferior to that of dragons. Without the skill of the conference, Ace's face was grabbed by the little golden dragon. A few red marks.

It's just that Norn's claws were merciful, and Ace's wound didn't see blood.

Seeing that the little golden dragon finally calmed down, Angelica hurriedly smoothed things over, "Young master, Norn has been locked up in the small wooden box for a long time, so it's inevitable that I'm a little unhappy."

Ace said weakly to Angelica: "It's not for this, it's not happy that I'm riding a horse."

Even though Angelica is extremely intelligent, she doesn't quite understand Norn's thinking.

Ace: "Just a few months ago, I jokingly said that I would be a dragon knight of Norn in the future. I don't know, Norn has it in mind. When I was in the World of Warcraft Forest, it neither let me ride a monster, They don't let me ride a horse, they want me to ride it."

Ace didn't notice Norn's thoughts at first.It’s just that in the World of Warcraft forest, a group of level 3 horned bull monsters broke into the Grand Canyon by mistake. Ace was bored, and seeing how tall and mighty they were, he wanted to tame them and wander around in the World of Warcraft forest until he and Norn left. Let them go again.

Unexpectedly, when Norn came down from the sky that day, he saw Ace riding on the back of an extraordinarily tall horned bull monster, and made a big fuss on the spot, scaring the horned bull monsters to flow out feces and urine, and the stench was suffocating. , the cow that Ace rode was also roasted with a bite of the dragon's breath, and became the dinner for Ace and Norn that day.

Only then did Ace know Norn's little thoughts.

Taking advantage of Norn's inattention, Ace quietly complained to Angelica, "When it grows up to the point where I can ride it, at least 800 years later, I guess by then, grass will grow on my grave. "

Ace was still thinking about it, "At first, I wanted to rely on Norn's relationship to go to Dragon Island to find a dragon, sign a contract, and be a dragon knight for a while. Now that I think about it, it won't trip you up. It's not bad, where can I help you?"

Angelika never felt that Ace had done anything wrong, but she still mentioned it tactfully, "Young master, you can't just talk nonsense just because Norn is young."

Ace nana, "It was only a month old at that time, I didn't know."

It is you who say it should be sensible, and it is you who say it should not be sensible.Angelica no longer cares about Ace, she looks at the sleeves of the clothes she has already made for Ace, wondering if she should tattoo something on it.

Suddenly, Ace interrupted Angelika's train of thought, and he asked, "Angelica, did he go back to the village during the few days we were in Bad Soden?"

Angelica: "Back to young master, the training camp of the Knights of Westphalia starts a little earlier than the training camp of the Knights of Georgia. We may have just missed it. However, if our news is correct, he will start training every month. They all go back to the village of Bad Soden."

Although neither Ace nor Angelica said it, they both knew who the "he" they were referring to was.

Ace: "Is the box of magic potions I gave you put in his house?"

Angelica: "Yes, the entire year's amount was put in his home. The head of the Westphalian Knights is taking care of it. No one dares to go to his old house."

For this matter, Ace did not give any instructions, but said: "That's good."

Bremen City.

When Ace returned to the villa, the Georgia Knights training camp had already started training for a week.

Nou was slightly dissatisfied with Ace, "You're finally back."

I haven't seen each other for three months. Ace and Nuoou are no strangers. They stretched out their hands and bumped each other's fists. A tacit understanding rose from their hearts at the same time.Ace said: "The family has something to do temporarily, I wrote to Grand Knight Commander Ross to ask for leave."

Nuo Ou asked concerned: "Did something happen to the Neumann family?"

Ace spread his hands and said, "My father married a gentle new wife, who is the younger sister of the governor of Westphalia, does it matter?"

Nou frowned. Although many wealthy nobles are single-children or old widowers, it is not completely unthinkable for Viscount Neumann to remarry. The younger sister of the provincial governor, this identity is intriguing. When she has a child, I don't know if it will affect Ace's inheritance rights.

As for Ace's mother's family, the Attlee family, although they still have a hereditary baronship in the imperial capital, the family's reputation has not always been very good, and I don't know if they will support Ace.

Nuoou said with concern: "Then you..."

Ace didn't understand Noou's worry at all, but said: "I'm not at home, and Viscount Neumann doesn't have any friends near Bad Soden. It's good to have someone to accompany him."

Nou knew that Ace seemed out of place, but he knew better than anyone else in his heart, so he didn't say much, but said: "No matter what, you have passed the review of the Georgia Knights, and that's the business."

Ace nodded in agreement.

But what Nou didn't expect was that Ace's first year in the Georgia Knights training camp was already his most diligent year.This year, Ace didn't go to the Georgia Knights training camp as much as he did the previous year.

But for some reason, this year, Nuo Ou often avoided Ace, let alone control him.

At this time, Angelica walked into the room, holding a magic lamp in her hand, followed by several maids, each of which was holding a sterling silver dinner plate, and all the tableware was engraved with the Green family sign, it's dinner time.

Ace saw Angelica and told them not to come in. He said, "Put the dinner in my room. I have something for Nou later."

Nou asked curiously, "Did you bring me a gift from the World of Warcraft Forest or Bart Soden?"

Ace had prepared something, but he didn't know if it was a gift. He said, "It's not something important, but I just remembered it. I'll give it to you later, so I don't forget."

Nou: "Oh."

Nou took out a piece of soft armor from a wooden box and handed it to Ace, "It's for you. A birthday present."

Ace asked suspiciously, "What is this?"

The soft armor is not big, and it looks like a vest, which looks close to the body.The soft armor is woven with black silk threads, even with Ace's knowledge and knowledge, he didn't recognize the origin of the silk threads.Ace tore it vigorously with his hands, and the soft armor didn't show any signs of damage or snagging, and it seemed to be of good quality.

Noou looked at the soft armor in Ace's hand and said, "This time I went back to Green Castle. My father's old department heard about the man in black and gave it to me. Ace, as you know, the Green family is based on Those who were promoted in the war, the ancestors followed Alexander I to fight in the west of the current empire, and made great contributions. Later, they were granted the eastern plains of the Louisiana province. This soft armor was worn by the ancestors in the past, and has saved the ancestors several times life."

Ace suddenly felt that the soft armor in his hand was much heavier, and he said, "It's too precious, I can't take it."

Nuo Ou: "It doesn't matter, I have two pieces of this soft armor." He took off his coat, and he was indeed wearing a sea blue soft armor inside.

Nou: "Take it, and let Angelica change it to fit your size. Instead of letting it be dusted in the Green family's storage room, you might as well hold it. If it has a chance, it can save your life , even if it saves you from getting hurt, it’s not in vain.”

Ace hugged Noou, "Brother."

Although Ace and Nou are not brothers, in Ace's heart, their relationship is better than brothers, and any words between the two are superfluous.

In the evening, Ace and Nou had dinner in Ace's room, and Nou talked about his time in Green Castle, "When I dismounted and returned to Green Castle, my uncle was standing in front of the castle. Can you imagine seeing all the officials on the eastern plains of the Louisiana province greet me, and all the people have left their business to welcome a teenager who is dismissed from the Knights training camp?"

Noou's tone was not without sarcasm. Of course he knew that his uncle was flattering him and wanted him to leave an impression of self-righteousness and dominance in front of the officials of the Green family fief.

But at this stage, Nuoou had no good solution, so he had to pretend to be puzzled and asked: "Uncle, I have asked my servants not to notify Uncle in advance of my return to Green Castle, and I want to give Gabriel Cousin El was a surprise, how did uncle still know?" Tell me, how many people have you placed beside the first heir of Duke Green?

Before Nou went to the Georgia Knights training camp, he had a good relationship with Gabriel. The child was even brought up by Nou. Of course, the people in Green Castle had no doubts about what Nou said.

Noou's uncle just laughed and tried to fool him, "Only we know, Gabriel doesn't know yet. Noou, you can still give him a surprise." But Noou's uncle said so, also It was tantamount to admitting that it was not Nuoou's idea to invite officials from the fiefdom, but his own.

At that time, the officials in the Green family fief may not have thought much about it, but once the seeds of doubt are planted, they may take root and germinate after receiving some "sunshine" and "rain" in the future.

Nuo Ou: "This year's Georgia Knights training camp will be held against the Louisiana Knights training camp, and the time is much earlier than last year, just tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I originally thought that you would be back in these two days, and I was afraid of missing it. , I filed a leave with the Grand Knight Commander Ross, and I also don’t want to see my uncle, because of Princess Mary’s relationship, the relationship between my uncle and the Governor of Louisiana Province is not bad on the surface, I don’t want him to visit me hypocritically contest."

In front of outsiders, Nuo Ou has always been personable, but only in front of Ace, he will show his preference so straightforwardly.

After Ace and Nou finished their dinner, the maid cleared away the tableware and only lit a small magic lamp on the table.Outside the window, snowflakes were falling in large swathes, falling on the eaves, the shoulders of pedestrians, and the streets.

Everything is so pure white and peaceful.

Asha let out a breath, white mist appeared in the air, he took off his coat, climbed onto the bed, got into the bed, and continued to listen to Nou's words.

Nuo Ou was still a little gloomy at first, seeing Ace half leaning on the bed, the whole person seemed to be afraid of the cold, covered himself tightly with the quilt, snorted, and listened to him like a bedtime story, the depression in his heart The air couldn't help but dissipated a lot.

Nou was angry and funny, he also took off his coat and lay down beside Ace.

Nou didn't want to talk about the bad things in Green Castle anymore, but told Ace about their mercenary group on the outskirts of Bremen, "Before you left Bremen, we didn't build a mercenary group together. Later , I went to the Mercenary Guild to authenticate a mercenary badge, and officially recorded that mercenary group under my name, and named it the Aio Mercenary Group."

Ace said in a daze, "The name sounds nice."

Nou just smiled and said nothing.

After a while, Nou continued: "I consulted some knights on the outskirts of Bremen, asking them to join the Io Mercenary Corps as mercenaries if they don't have titles. It is distributed by the Green family, and it depends on the mercenary group's own profit or I distribute it here. Although it costs more gold coins, it reduces the shackles of the Green family on them, and the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages."

"At the same time, the Io mercenary group will also recruit mercenaries from the mercenary guild. I want to build an elite mercenary group, as long as there are talented young people and swordsmen above level four."

A powerful A-level mercenary group is not afraid of the knights in the previous province. If Nuoou can control an A-level mercenary group, it will undoubtedly increase his bargaining chips for him to regain the title of Duke Green .

Hearing the words "salary" and "gold coins", Ace closed his eyes and took out a bag from the drawer of the bedside table. It was filled with gold tickets from the Caesars Chamber of Commerce, still worth 1 face value, at least two or three hundred.

Ace was drowsy, and Nuo Ou suspected that he was talking in his sleep, "It's a little bit ambitious to build a mercenary group. You can't do it without a lot of gold coins in the early stage. You can use it. Anyway, I have been living and eating. your."

Nou scratched Ace's nose, and said softly: "If you stay here with me, no matter how you eat for a year, even if you add Norn, you won't be able to eat 1 gold coins. This money is enough for you to eat for several lifetimes."

Ace was already snoring slightly.

Noou murmured: "When I went to the mercenary group, I said that the Io mercenary group has a dual-leader system, and I brought you a six-pointed star badge. Ace, you should break through to the fourth-level swordsman earlier. Go get the badge."

Only with their common industry can Nou accept the support of such a large amount of gold coins from Ace.

Ace grabbed Nou's hand to scrape his nose, and lazily said, "Stop making trouble, go to sleep." His eyes didn't open from the beginning to the end, and as soon as he finished speaking, there was another slight snoring sound.

Nuoou couldn't laugh or cry, "Are you asleep?" But he didn't get an answer.

It may be that the bed is too warm, or that Ace's snoring is too rhythmic, and Nuo Ou also feels drowsiness like waves, and he gradually falls asleep with the pillow next to Ace.

Ace is now meditating instead of sleeping, but his sleeping habit of more than ten years in his previous life is not easy to change.About one day a month, Ace would get a good night's sleep.

Another time Ace accidentally overslept and lay in bed for three full days.This scared Angelica enough, but she didn't dare to wake up Ace, for fear of disturbing Ace's important business.

Later, Ace gradually controlled it, and it was midnight when he slept.

The time of magicians is very precious. They wish they could spend every second in meditation and spend it in the laboratory instead of wasting it on meaningless sleep.

However, tonight, Ace didn't sleep well.

Ace knew that Noou was sleeping next to him tonight, and it was normal for good brothers to sleep on their feet. They lived in the same tent when they first met.Moreover, Nou is someone Ace really trusts, and logically speaking, he would not disturb Ace's sleep.

But Ace never expected that such an embarrassing thing would happen to him.

When Ace woke up in the middle of the night, Nou's hand was on his shoulder, and something warm and woody was rubbing against Ace's thigh.Nuoou hasn't woken up yet, there is still fine sweat on his forehead, and he doesn't know what he is murmuring.

In just a split second, Ace woke up, and his body froze.