Skeleton King

Nou had a dream.

The time is long after now, and Norn has become an adult golden dragon.

Nou didn't know what happened, he sat on the Norn with Ace, and the Norn flew up, they flew over the mountains, passed through the clouds, they flew too high, they were senior swordsmen above the seventh level He was about to fall to his death, but Nuoen kept turning in circles and flicking his tail, as if he was unhappy that Nuoou was on his back and wanted to throw him off.

Nuoou couldn't touch the ground, and his heart was empty.

Then, Nou fell into a warm embrace.

Nou looked up, saw Ace's chin, and saw Ace bowed his head and smiled at him.This is Ace who is fully grown up. The greenness and fine fluff on Ace's face are gone. His outline is clear, his facial features are handsome, his smile is gentle, handsome, and his pair of charming shape The eyes are full of him.Nuo Ou only felt that there was an irresistible desire growing in his heart, how much he longed, these green eyes would only look at him forever.

Cheek to cheek, fingers intertwined...

They went to many places that day, the top of the white clouds, above the sea, and the extremely secret caves with green lights. Noou never knew that just being with Ace would be so happy.

When Nou woke up, he felt that a century had passed, the night was still so deep and quiet, and Ace's breathing was still so steady.

Nuo Ou could hear his heart beating "bang-bang-bang--", the blush on his face hadn't disappeared yet, his palms were wet, and he had a lot of bleeding in this cold winter. sweat.

Suddenly, Nou's movements froze, and he felt a coldness on his pants.

Nuoou quickly sat up from the bed, the wind blew past, cooling the sweat on his body, his body felt cold for a while, but he didn't seem to notice it.Nuo Ou carefully pressed the quilt and bed sheets with his hands, and he was relieved after confirming that nothing that wasn't there was found on them.

At this moment, Nuoou was very confused. Although it was his first time to have such a dream, it didn't mean he didn't know what happened.

However, Nou, he doesn't know how he dreamed, dreamed...

Nou hadn't been so dazed for a long time. He got out of bed carefully to make sure he didn't wake Ace up.

Nou took the coat from the chair beside the bed, put it on, opened the door, and walked out.Nou saw Angelica outside Ace's bedroom. She was making tea, and when she saw Nou coming out of Ace's room, she bowed to Nou.

Nou didn't come out of the room all night, and Angelica was worried that Nou and Ace would call her, so she didn't go back to her room, and stayed here all the time.

Nuo Ou felt a little uncomfortable seeing Angelica at this moment, but he could barely maintain the demeanor of the little Duke of Green, "I was chatting with Ace before and accidentally fell asleep. I'm going to go back now."

Nou left the room in a hurry before Angelica could answer.

However, Nou left in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to close the door of Ace's bedroom.

Angelica put aside the tea she had made before, got up and wanted to close the door, and saw a dark figure sitting in the room and Ace's bed, Angelica was slightly startled, and then said: "Young master .”

Ace turned his head to look at Angelica, "It's okay. You haven't slept yet, have you been waiting for us? Go and rest, tomorrow you can rest until the afternoon before starting duty."

Angelica: "Yes, young master."

Angelica closed the door quietly without making a sound.The young master is the same as usual, that is, the little Duke Green, why did he explain to her that he stayed in the young master's room until midnight before he left.

Originally, he and the young master had a long talk all night, but the young Duke of Green never explained to her that although Ace valued her very much, in fact, she was just a maid.

Angelica didn't think about it anymore, not because she couldn't think of anything, but because she believed that everything would be invisible in the long river of time.

Angelica walked quietly on the third floor of the villa and left Ace's room. There was no magic lamp in the corridor, and everything was in darkness.

When Ace woke up the next day, Nou had already gone to the Georgia Knights training camp.

Ace: "Didn't he say he didn't want to participate in the tournament between the Georgia Knights training camp and the Louisiana Knights training camp? Why did he go again? This trip will take at least two months."

Angelica said quietly: "The little Duke Green decided to go on the spur of the moment. He rode directly to the training camp this morning."

Ace muttered casually: "The noble young master has a thin skin."

From Ace's point of view, as long as a boy will experience what happened last night, it's fine for Nou to run away on the spot, and it's unreasonable to escape to the Louisiana province.Of course, Ace also understands that Nuoou is thin-skinned, and it is impossible for him to be such a hooligan.

Angelica: "Young master, what did you say?"

Ace waved his hand, "Nothing."

Ace thought that there were no people in the Georgia Knights training camp for more than two months, and he didn't want to go to training, so he said: "Nuoou is not here, and there is no need to go to the training camp to train. I want to take Norn back to the World of Warcraft Forest."

Angelica: ...

Ace thought about it again, and said: "Forget it, there is still the matter of the Caesars Chamber of Commerce. I have to discuss the price of the soul crystal with Karl Caesars. There is also a city to be built on the side of the dead world. I can put aside the matter of going to the Warcraft Forest." Let go." He asked Angelica again, "I will stay in the Deadland in a few days, do you have a letter to give to Angela?"

Although Angelika and Angela sisters cannot meet, they can still communicate through Ace.

Angelica showed a slight smile on her face, "Yes, I will give it to the young master at night, thank you for your hard work, young master."

Ace nodded, "If you have anything you want to give to Angela, you can bring it to me too. I'm going to meet Carl Caesar today, and I'll go to the Deadland tonight. I may not come out for two or three months."

Angelica nodded, "Okay."

dead world.

Not long after Ace arrived in the Deadland, he piled up the materials he entrusted Karl Kaiser to purchase in the underground warehouse.

What Ace told Carl Caesar was that he met a lord in the dead world, and the undead lord helped him collect boundary stones and soul crystals, and he helped the undead lord collect materials for building the city in this world.Although Ace and Karl Kaiser have been very happy to cooperate so far, Ace still has reservations about Karl Kaiser. He believes that Karl Kaiser is the same for him.

Ace asked General Arnold, "Is there anything wrong with the material?"

General Arnold watched several skeleton soldiers climb up and down the mountain of materials, and within a short while, those skeleton soldiers informed General Arnold of the results of the material inventory through the fluctuation of the soul fire.

General Arnold: "Your Highness, almost all the materials have been collected, but this is the most ideal situation, and there will still be some wear and tear during the construction of the city."

Ace nodded and said, "It's inevitable, at worst I'll make two extra trips to the present world."

General Arnold: "Please Your Highness."

Ace waved his hand and said, "Don't bother, don't bother." Although the construction of the city can provide shelter for all the skeletons of the Royal Guard Knights, in the final analysis, the lord of this city is Ace.How can it be said that it is hard work to run a few more times for my own city.

General Arnold: "There is one more thing that needs your Highness's assistance."

Ace said solemnly: "You say."

General Arnold: "Your Highness has been in the Dead Realm for a while, and you should know that the Dead Realm will produce an elemental storm every ten or so days. Undead creatures below level 3 cannot withstand more than three elemental storms by themselves. , that's why they entered the city of the undead lord. Even if they need to lose their freedom and participate in wars frequently, there is nothing they can do about it."

Ace is silent, this is determined by the environment of the dead world, and no one can change it.

This is probably also the rule of the undead. The rules give the undead creatures the attribute of immortality and give them a difficult living environment.Of course, there is always a door of life behind countless doors of death, which gives undead creatures a chance to be stronger and more able to control their own destiny.

"The reason why the city of the dead can resist the elemental storm is because of the formation at the bottom of the city. It guides the elemental storm that enters the city into the ground with the city wall as a conductor, giving the undead creatures in the city a chance to recuperate. Let them repair their damaged bodies and advance safely, so as to face more powerful natural disasters." General Arnold said.

Ace quickly grasped the problem, "However, the material we are looking for does not include the material of the city wall. If it is used as the conductor of the formation, it should not be made by ordinary materials, right?"

General Arnold appreciated Ace's intelligence, "Yes, Your Highness. Bacon and Reagan, the lords in the southern part of the dead world, are willing to provide His Highness with alchemy stones as the main material for His Highness's construction of the city, but they need us to assist them in completing one thing. "

Ace asked: "It's hard to get a lot of alchemy stones by ourselves?" After General Arnold affirmed, Ace asked again: "Then what do the two undead lords need our assistance?"

General Arnold: "They need our help to find the Little Dead Sea."

The sea of ​​undead is the place where the dark attribute magic elements in the dead world are the most concentrated.But just like the elemental storm, too much magic element of the dark attribute will not increase the strength of undead creatures by leaps and bounds, it will only make their already overwhelmed bones decay faster, and even make their soul fire forever off.

And the small undead sea is an existence lower than the undead sea. Undead creatures can not only warm and nourish their bodies in it, but also don't have to worry about the dark magic elements eroding their soul fire.This is the dream land of all undead lords, and getting it will indicate that the average strength of the undead city lord's subjects will step up two steps, and they will get an army that is also invincible in the undead world.

However, all small undead seas with owners are hidden in layers of mist, and no one or other undead creatures know its exact location except their masters.

If Reagan and Bacon, the undead lords, confirmed that there was a newborn little undead sea, how could they not know its exact location?

Ace thought so, and asked the same question.

General Arnold told Ace that when Bacon and Reagan were still sixth-level undead creatures, they were not afraid of any elemental storms except for occasionally needing to enter the city to recuperate.They often travel together in the dead world until...

"Until they discovered a newborn small sea of ​​dead spirits." General Arnold said: "Reagan and Bacon used all their wealth to change a set of mist formations to cover up the location of the small sea of ​​dead spirits. They agreed, who can become Lord of the undead, whoever owns the small sea of ​​undead."

Ace said softly: "They are all undead lords now."

"Your Highness, there is a saying in the world of the dead, which is widely spread." General Arnold said: "The words of the dead are the most untrustworthy."

Ace smiled, and he couldn't help but think of another popular saying, only the dead are safe.

General Arnold continued: "Reagan and Bacon each kept their eyes open and moved their hands and feet in the mist formation. They didn't want the other party to find the small undead sea. As for the dead world, the biggest variable is the elemental storm, which can move mountains and seas and change the landscape. .After more than 200 years and nearly 600 elemental storms, the mist formation has changed beyond recognition, and neither of them can find the little Necromancer Sea."

"They were able to confirm that the Little Necromancer Sea was in the mist, but no one could find it."

Ace asked General Arnold, "But how do they think you'll find it?"

General Arnold: "Your Highness, I have lived longer than them. I have witnessed the birth of the Little Necromancer Sea and its slow growth. It is not far from this wilderness, and it is in the fog to the north."

Ace: "Since that's the case, since you knew it earlier, why didn't you take the Little Necromancer Sea into your pocket earlier?"

General Arnold: "Your Highness, the Little Necromancer Sea belongs to you. The birth of the Little Necromancer Sea means that you are coming soon. I dare not leave here for fear of missing you."

Ace:? ? ?

General Arnold thought that before he went out for the last time, he would take the Knights of the Royal Guards to participate in a death-defying battle.

In the dilapidated stone house, the last astrologer on the mainland was imprisoned. Even if he had the power to turn stars, he was still dressed in rags, his hair was tangled like weeds, and his hands and feet were covered with extremely heavy shackles. , It is said that it is made of extraterrestrial meteorites, a shackle that even a holy mage cannot break free.

General Arnold will always remember him standing outside the door of the stone house. He looked at the heir to the mysterious and ancient profession, and the astrologer also looked at him. Those were a pair of black eyes that seemed to be able to suck everything up. They were darker than the night sky. A mysterious existence that hides countless secrets, as if it can absorb people's souls.

Whether it was Keosi who later established the Pansy Empire, or Finger who established the Finger Empire, or those losers who did not leave their names in history, they teamed up to imprison the last astrologer on the mainland here. Heroes with high self-esteem and whose fate is up to me do not allow astrologers to override the imperial power, that is, to override them.

General Arnold didn't speak, because he didn't need to speak, the astrologer would know why he came.

If the astrologer doesn't know, then his words are useless.

It may be that General Arnold is about to die, or it may be that the astrologer is too lonely, and the prophecy, which was originally impossible to find, sounded like that in the stone house.

"Wildflowers of purple, white and yellow will bloom all over the west of the continent, and the blood of the pansy will gain the supreme power in the world. They will meet the most beautiful incarnation in the world, but they abandon their rights, wealth, and status to protect Love people, but never fall in love with them. Whether in life or death, they will lose their love..."

"Finger, who rose up in the market, will gain the supreme power in the east of the mainland, and possess all the wealth in this world, but no amount of money can stop their bodies from decaying. As long as they wake up for a day, their hearts will be broken. The pain of splitting the soul, day and night, appearing in the world of death, following you like a shadow..."

Because of the long-term captivity, the shackles continuously absorbed strength, the astrologer's body decayed prematurely, his hair was completely gray, but the skin on his face was like a newborn baby, which could be broken by blowing bullets. He looked at General Arnold, A weird smile appeared on his face.

"Do you want to ask your end? Don't you already know? Do you think death will be the end?"

"No, no one will remember you. Neither the monarch you are loyal to nor the subjects behind you will remember you. You will die from being pierced by thousands of arrows. For the sake of short-term peace, the monarch you are loyal to will define you as a traitor Army, the honor of all the knights you lead will no longer exist..."

"...But this will not be your end, you will live longer than anyone else, longer than all successful people. You will welcome your true king in the boundless wilderness, and he will be on the back of the Devil Weeping Wood walking stick, came to the cemetery of the Knights, he came from the darkness, but he will be the creator of light..."

"...he will build the Twin Cities with the Little Necromancer Sea as his heart, and he will bestow upon you true glory, unlock the shackles of mankind, and bring about a new order. He will be eternal whether it is the world or the dead. king."

There was a happy smile on the face of the astrologer, but also boundless pity, "Do you think I am suffering here? Do you know what it means to wait without hope? After you die, you will understand."

General Arnold remembered that he pierced the astrologer's heart with a sword and ended his lingering life. He sacrificed the life of the last astrologer on the mainland to participate in the last battle of his life.

General Arnold can't remember whether he believed the astrologer at the time, but none of the Knights of the Royal Guards survived, and he died with a thousand arrows through his heart.

He "lived" in the dead world for a thousand years, and he knew that all honors would be taken away after him, and he became a rebel.

He knew that the Finger family, who were born as commoners, established the Finger Empire, but every one of their monarchs and every member of the family suffered from serious diseases, and every day they lived was torture for them.

He knew that his majesty, the wise and great Alexander I, whom he once loyal to, was personally poisoned by his queen a few years after the founding of the country.

General Arnold was in the dead world, and saw the ghost of Alexander I questioning his beloved woman, "Why? I am even willing to share this empire with you. I love you with all my heart and am loyal to you. Why do you want to kill me?"

The first queen of the Pansy Empire told her husband, "In that small village, when we first met, I did like you. You are the most stalwart man in my mind. But you don't know, you want to get With the support of the Beman Heights army, they killed the lord of Beman and his heirs, and planted them in the most powerful Wuya city at that time, causing public outrage in Wuya city. You opened the prelude to the war with the allies of Zhucheng, and you Are you proud?"

"Heh." The queen smiled wantonly and happily, but tears dripped from her moon-like cheeks, turning into little crystal souls and falling on the brown land of the dead world.

After the death of Alexander I, the queen also committed suicide.

The queen and the king of the Pansy Empire were saint-level powerhouses during their lifetime, so they can keep their souls immortal for a short time after death. The queen personally revealed the truth that had been hidden for decades, "You think the Lord Beman is afraid that your power will gradually fade away?" Strong, pretending to win you over?"

Under the shocked face of Alexander I, the queen continued: "No, he is only because of me. In fact, I am the illegitimate daughter of Lord Beman, and he really wants to accept you! He even promised me that I You returned to the family and held a grand wedding for us in person! What about you, what did you do, you killed my father yourself at the banquet where he wanted to announce this matter!"

"Your hands! I can't even find anyone else I want to hate! Over the years, you have killed too many innocent people, your hands are covered with blood, you know who provided it to me Is it poisonous? I don’t love you long ago, and I miss you to death!” After the queen finished speaking the secret that had been hidden in her heart, the fire of her soul was extinguished, and she no longer existed even in the realm of the dead.

Alexander I looked at the soul crystal that fell on the ground, and murmured: "I don't know, you never mentioned your relationship with Lord Beman. Silly girl, how could Lord Beman really value you? If he He really values ​​you, how could he let you grow up in the countryside like a real farmer's daughter."

"When I first met the Lord of Beman, he proposed to let his eldest daughter marry me, but I refused. He betrothed his eldest daughter to the son of the Lord of Wuya City. He clearly knew that I The relationship with them is either you die or I die. Since he is in the team, I will naturally kill him before the marriage is announced to the world."

"It's too late, everything is too late." If Alexander I had told the queen the truth, they might not have reconciled.

But in the following decades, the tenderness and sweetness, the companionship day and night, and even the birth of children were all disguises, and the hatred and hatred implied in it could not be eliminated by a single truth.

The fire of Alexander I's soul was also extinguished.

The real death in this world is the disappearance of the obsession in one's heart.

General Arnold stood quietly not far from them, watching this "farce".He had wanted to ask Alexander I where the honor he had promised to the Knights of the Royal Guard had gone, but he found that it was no longer necessary.

General Arnold suddenly thought, is the last prophecy made by the astrologer a prophecy or a curse?

Later, General Arnold stopped thinking about it. He had witnessed too many souls of the Finger family who were restless after death, and also witnessed the pain of too much Keosi family not getting their love.

General Arnold has been waiting in the wilderness, he thought, if this is the curse of the astrologer, as the one who killed the astrologer, his curse must be the most painful and long.

He probably has to wait until the world of death is broken before he can wait for the person he is waiting for.

He didn't expect that a miracle would really come. Thousands of years after the Pansy Empire, he saw a man wearing a cloak and walking on a devil's weeping cane, step by step into the cemetery of the Knights.

He finally ushered in his redemption, not only for him, but also for the Knights of the Royal Guard.

at this time.

General Arnold said to Ace: "Your Highness, Reagan and Bacon knew that nothing around here could hide from me, and they also knew that I would not leave the wilderness easily to build my own city."

"But it's different now. They are worried that I will find the Little Necromancer Sea first. They are willing to swear in the name of the Skeleton King and make an agreement with us that they will provide all the alchemy stones needed to build the city, but we need to share the little Necromancer with them." The sea. The small undead sea is divided into the Yin sea and the Yang sea. The Yang sea is owned by us, and the Yin sea is shared by the two undead. Whoever breaks through the lich first will automatically own the Yin sea, and I will also become their notary ghost. "

Ace: "What do I need to do?" General Arnold is not a reckless man who only knows how to fight. In fact, all successful generals are extremely thoughtful people. profitable contract.

General Arnold said: "Your Highness, you will sign the contract with us."

Ace asked suspiciously, "Me?"

General Arnold said: "Yes, Your Highness. If I die, Yanghai will belong to you. That's what I told Reagan and Bacon."

Ace said: "Then what is it actually?" Ace always felt that General Arnold had something to say.

General Arnold said: "Your Highness, if you break through before Reagan and Bacon, and reach the realm of a necromancer on the same level as a lich, the dark sea of ​​the Little Necromancer Sea will also belong to you."

Ace said: "Don't the undead lords Reagan and Bacon know the loopholes in the oath?"

General Arnold said: "They know. Your Highness, you are now a level four necromancer, but they have been at level nine for a long time. They think there is no such possibility."

"However, Your Highness, you will definitely become a necromancer."