A strange world

Chapter 618 Section 15. Skeleton Duke

Annan and Lemon picked some wild flowers from the surrounding area and placed them in front of the crooked tombstone.

Looking up, he found that Lemon's body was still stained with blood, and said helplessly: "Don't put anything into your body, this is not good, spit it out quickly."

Annan continued to set off with lemon. It seemed that he had done something good or was accompanied by Lemon. His steps became much lighter, and the forest environment could no longer affect his psychology.

As dusk approaches, the clouds in the sky transform the forest into the Crimson Princess' favorite color.

The forest was gradually darkening. If the Fire Elemental could still travel at night - then Annan thought that what the Fire Elemental would get would be a burning forest.

He had to find shelter before dark.

Annan remembered that Da De said that the hollows of some big trees are natural shelters. He asked the water elemental to climb to the tree crown, find the largest tree, and then go there.

Before the darkness blurred their vision, Annan and Lemon came to the shelter it was looking for - a banyan tree nearly two meters in diameter. Unique aerial roots hang down naturally along the trunk and branches, like a female ghost with her head hanging down, and her torso is hollowed out into a dark abdominal cavity.

Lemon walked around the banyan tree. It was very clean here.

Annan got into the tree hole with confidence. The place was quite spacious, barely able to squeeze in himself and the water element, and there was no smell or feces.

The last afterglow was about to disappear on the horizon. Annan shrank into the tree hole and let the lemon block the entrance.

Here is the wild, there is nothing edible, but it doesn't matter, Annan knows how to make use of everything around him.

"I'm thirsty."

Lemon thoughtfully brought a ball of water to Annan's mouth.

Then Annan opened the portal, and the person staying at the portal today was Ingrid. He first took out a magic lamp, and then asked the kitchen of the city lord's palace to simply prepare a barbecue, vegetable platter, roasted matsutake mushrooms, and creamy pine nut soup.

"Do you need a bed?"

"We can't fit it in here, but bring me a blanket."

Ingrid fetched a blanket and Annan spread it in the tree hole, and continued to think about what else was needed for camping in the wild.

The feces of wild beasts. Annan remembered that dragon dung would frighten all beasts and most magical creatures. The dragon dung from the three little ones probably wouldn't work, but Ilimoyas's should be fine... forget it.

Annan did not want to tarnish the beautiful image of Elimoyas in his heart.

"Annan Annan Annan~"

A familiar trembling sound sounded, and Annan saw Lily appearing at the corner, leaping into the portal, crawling onto Annan's legs and rubbing her tail.

"The silly cat and the little spider didn't cause any trouble, did they?" Annan scratched Lily's raised head.

"They fight all the time. The cat tells them not to fight."

"Praise Lily." Annan patted it, picked up Lily and handed it to the portal, "I'm in some danger here, let Lily stay in Liberty City."

"Danger? Do you want to send the Guards to help you?"

"I'm just looking for people, not starting a war..."

Annan refused without thinking. What an adventure story it was to lead an army of soldiers.

After dinner, Annan dimmed the light of the magic lamp to the lowest level, looked into the dark forest for a while, sat on the blanket and began to meditate.

Lemon squatted at the entrance of the tree hole, keeping vigil for Annan.

The cold pale moonlight shines on the forest, forming dapples that are completely opposite to the sunlight. Among them, some obscure sights emerge from the shadows where the moonlight cannot shine, quietly approaching the vaguely bright tree hole...

At this time, an unknown shadow spread from the distance. Wherever he passed, the obscure existences were like frightened beasts, fleeing one after another.

The shadow extends under the moonlight, forming a black ring around the banyan tree...

In the cave of the banyan tree, Annan, who was hiding behind Lemon and holding the amulet, thought to himself that you had escaped and continued to meditate.

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In the early morning, Annan woke up and crawled out of the warm tree hole, stretched his body, and happened to look at a squirrel squatting on a tree branch.

Its down was covered with dew, as if it had been there all night.

"Give it back to you and we'll leave now."

Annan left the blanket to the squirrel as an overnight fee, let Lemon hold the crystal skull, and continued on his way carrying the magic lamp.

It was a wise decision for him not to leave the magic lamp in the tree hole... It was not yet noon, the sky became gloomy, the forest was dark like evening, and as he continued to move forward, the shape of the surrounding trees changed.

The greenery has faded, the plants no longer grow, and the dead trees stretch out their twisted branches, like unwilling dead people.

The only sound in this dead forest was Annan's footsteps, so Annan felt warm when he saw a cemetery filled with the aura of the dead.

As soon as Annan and Lemon approached, the stone door of the cemetery opened on both sides, revealing a deep staircase.

"I am……"

"Did Vickery ask you to come here?" A thick echo came from the cemetery.

"If the 'Vickley' you're talking about is the assistant."

"You don't know it?"

"I am the messenger of the blood clan, here to deliver a message to you. It entrusted me to come here to find you."

"How can it let a messenger come to me?" The voice asked and answered itself: "But humans are indeed easier to come than them."

Annan knew it.

The skeleton assistant is not the crimson princess who likes to read romance novels, so how could she trust herself when she sees her?

"Come in, they will find you if you stay outside."

"they?"

"I guess you've seen some weird things here..."

Annan thought of the wooden house in the forest, and of the spying last night, and then looking back... I wonder if it was an illusion, but that sense of spying resurfaced again.

Annan and Lemon walked into the cemetery, and the stone door closed again after they entered.

After raising the magic lamp and walking through a long passage, Annan saw the Skeleton Duke:

Its skeleton is tall and majestic, and it is dressed in a gorgeous aristocratic dress inlaid with gold filigree and gems, like a noble from an ancient kingdom. The blue soul fire burned in its eyes, making Annan feel a wise temperament.

It holds the materials for drawing the magic circle and stands in front of an unfinished magic circle. A knowledgeable mage will recognize the activation method, characteristics and uses of this magic circle.

"How did you meet Vickery?"

"I passed three tests and entered the necropolis"

"oh?"

Duke Skeleton continued to draw the magic circle and asked without raising his head: "How did you answer?"

"For the first question, I will answer, 'The Book of Etiquette of the Tatoun Empire, the History of Independence of the Principality of Montabulok, and the Book of Wisdom of the Kingdom of Rekaner.'"

"Are you from Middle-earth?"

"As expected of the learned Duke of Skeletons."

"Where are the remaining two?"

"The second one I answered 'what has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening is what has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening'. The third one I answered 'it's me'."

The Skeleton Duke raised his head, and his soul fire brightened.

"A human warlock..."