Skeleton King

At night, the hustle and bustle gradually subsided.In the tavern, only the waiter was still cleaning up the leftovers on the table.

Ace's room in the tavern was no different than the one he had in Bad Soden Manor. The room was just clean and tidy, not luxuriously decorated, and not very spacious.Sitting on the bed, Ace can open the window and see the bright starry sky outside the window.The stars all over the sky are like bright gems inlaid in the dark night. They are mysterious and beautiful, shining brilliantly in this unknown star field.

Ace wondered if his hometown was one of these stars.Hundreds of thousands of light years away, would there be a planet where he lived.

Ace doesn't know whether he really transmigrated into a book, Viscount Neumann, Angelica, Angela, the tavern owner... Are they all just a paragraph of text in the book, or are they not even written? There are no qualifications to enter the book, but they are generally called "people living in the Pansy Empire".

However, Ace knew that Viscount Neumann's harsh teaching was true, Angelica's patiently reading to him was true, Angela's silent care was true, and the laughter of the people in the tavern was also true.

In "Sword and Magic", the mage and sword master of the magic island came to the village of the Netherlands, but they did not see what he saw today.

At that time, there were only undead and skeletons left here.

They only met Thomas, the owner of the tavern. Thomas told them about the origin and destruction of a village and the love story of a fisherman. Relying on the clues provided by Thomas, everyone in Magic Island found the legacy of the Skeleton King and opened the world of the dead. the gate.

Ace thought, but it was too late.

At that time, this happy little fishing village had become a dead place, the children who had not yet grown up became lively little skeletons, and the aging old people became big skeletons with osteoporosis.

And these people, they could have been happy in this world for a few more years, decades.

The night deepened.Ace sneaked out of the room like a cat. Fortunately, the knights under the Governor of Westphalia did not live here. They were all guards of the Neumann family, at most a first-class swordsman.

These family guards, who were usually negligent in training, did not notice that their young master had left the tavern.

This night was not only starry, like street lamps, illuminating Ace's way to the rocky beach, the moon hanging high in the sky was also like a jade plate at a banquet, exuding a faint soft light.

It was a rare full moon day.

When everything is silent, the sound of the waves is particularly obvious, "crashing, clattering", it is powerfully hitting the boulders on the rocky beach.Ace followed the sound of the sea and found the rocky beach.Probably Viscount Neumann and the Caesar Chamber of Commerce believed that Karl Caesar was taken away by a magician, and there was no one guarding it.

Ace found the pitch-black clam in no time. It was four feet high and at least ten feet wide, more than enough for a full-grown man to lie in.But Ace knew that this clam was the door to the Skeleton King's tomb.

As for the method of opening the clam, Ace closed his eyes, he always felt weird about self-harm.

Ace scratched the palm of his hand with the small dagger he carried with him. The wound was a little deep. He carefully wiped the blood to the place where the two clamshells joined.

This oyster has been placed by the sea. Although people always touch it and play with it during the day, hoping to be the lucky one, open the oyster and find countless pearls inside, but after one night, it will be covered with a layer of pearls. A new layer of fine and dense sand.The sand rubbed into Ace's wound when he sacrificed blood to the clam.

Ace cursed inwardly, wondering if there is a tetanus vaccine in this world.

Tetanus vaccine is definitely not available here, there are only things from the dead in this world.Things in the dead world are more real than a clown's sideshow, and more reliable than a lover's whisper.It accepted Ace's sacrifice, and Ace's blood slowly flowed down the shell, and then was absorbed until it disappeared.

The huge clam shell opened slowly, and there were many pearls inside just as the villagers thought.It's just that the size of each pearl is not big, the color is not eye-catching, and it is not gray, and they are spread lightly in the clam shell.

Ace knew that this was his last chance to repent.

The tomb of the Skeleton King is definitely not the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty. There are many crises in it, and the sword masters and wizards of the magic island are also killed and injured here.Although in theory, Ace knows the location of the mechanism and the method of restraining the undead and skeleton soldiers, he can retreat completely, but what is not mentioned in the book "Sword and Magic" is the existence of sword masters and wizards who can be killed easily. It is not necessary to lose his life.

However, Ace still stepped into the clam with one foot. He can wait more than ten years later, before the people from the magic island arrive, to claim the inheritance of the Skeleton King. People in the sea area, they can't wait.Only now, with the inheritance of the Skeleton King, can he save their lives by closing the gate of the dead world.

Ace lay on his side in the clam, the clam shells fell slowly, and the rocky beach became calm again.

When the two clamshells closed again, Ace felt his world spinning for a while.

When Ace opened his eyes, he was already in a tomb. It is not accurate to say that it is a tomb. There are neither sacrifices nor tombstones here.

When the people of Magic Island first arrived here, they thought it was just a huge underground palace.

Ace is now a first-class swordsman, and his eyesight is much better than his previous life, but he can't see things in the dark.He held two magic crystals in his hand, emitting a faint light in the darkness, illuminating a corner of the underground palace.

Ace was still lying in the clam, which was exactly like the one on the rocky beach in the Dutch village.But it wasn't that clam that flew here, they were a pair of clams.The tavern owner's metaphor is not wrong. They are indeed things brought out by the Skeleton King from the dead world. He put them here to open up the passage between the Dutch village and his tomb.

Ace stepped out of the clam and walked quickly in the Skeleton King's tomb.

Although the newborn undead could see him, their strength was still weak and they couldn't do much damage to him.

As for those skeleton soldiers who like to dismantle corpses.When Ace thought of them, the hairs on his arms stood up. Skeleton soldiers didn't have much wisdom, so they could only use their sense of smell to judge whether a stranger had broken in, and then relied on their fighting instincts to attack.Ace just needs to reach the destination before they react.

However, there was a skeleton soldier that he couldn't avoid or escape no matter what.

Ace walked through the long corridor and came to a wide circular hall. He heard the sound of wind in front of him, as well as the sound of "click" and "click".

Ace stopped in an instant. He groped around the wall for a while, and found a fire knife and flint.

Ace hit the flint twice, splashing some sparks.

The hall is at the position of his shoulders, and there is a very narrow plank road, just the width of an adult's foot, probably only enough for a cat to walk on.The plank road was covered with black powder, and Ace let sparks splash on his nearest black powder. This little spark swam across the whole plank road quickly like a dragon.

This plank road goes from one end of the hall to the far other end, and the entire underground palace is probably lit up in an instant!

Two or three steps ahead of Ace, there is a huge pit with countless skeleton soldiers in them. They wear rusty armor and hold swords on their hand bones. They are faintly visible in their skulls or chests. The blue soul fire.

Although Ace was prepared in his heart, he still felt his scalp tingle when he saw this scene.If he didn't know at the time, if he continued to move forward, he might fall into the middle of the skeleton soldiers.

However, countless skeleton soldiers at the bottom of the pit still found him, and the sound of "click" and "click" became louder and louder. The space here is too sealed, and they haven't smelled human breath for too long.

All the skeleton soldiers turned their skulls to where Ace was.

Although there was nothing in the skeleton soldier's eye sockets, Ace still felt that their eyes were fixed on him motionlessly.

The skeleton soldier closest to the edge of the pit dragged his heavy armor and crawled towards Ace, but the pit was too deep for him to climb up at all.

Just as Ace breathed a sigh of relief, he saw that the skeleton behind the skeleton soldier stepped on the skull of the previous skeleton and climbed to a higher place, and then the skeletons continued to walk towards him, crawling over, if their There was no way ahead, so they climbed onto the bones and armor of the skeleton in front, and they climbed higher and higher.

In addition to their movements, they also make loud, uncluttered noises without stopping.

"Crack clap clap."