Elf Story from Another World

Chapter

"The preparations were in a hurry, so I could only collect these." In front of the huge round table, a skeletal voice was full of apology: "Sorry, we don't usually need to eat, so we don't have much food saved."

There are three other guys sitting on the round table. In addition to Ouyue and Nasha, there is now another big guy.

The big man blinked and sat there like a stone sculpture.

"This is already good." Ouyue looked at the crystal fruits piled in front of her and licked her lips. Then he brought one over and asked the big guy to help cut it, and then spread it with a spoon to help eat the big fruit.

Nasha was holding a bottle of blood and sipping heavily. Fortunately, these skeletons still had some blood prepared. Otherwise, he might really die.

As long as a vampire's blood content falls below a zero point, he will be significantly weaker. This is also their rare weakness, because the vampire in this situation will be much weaker than usual, basically losing the ability to continue fighting.

"Saved." Nasha was full. She burped and put her head on the table comfortably: "Hey, where is this place?"

"This is the tomb of the great master Emmaleti. We are her burial objects and the guardians here." The skeleton said: "The master had elf friends during his lifetime, so he specifically asked us not to harm elves who have no malicious intent."

"What's Emmaleti's last name?" Nasha yawned: "By the way, can you tell me what it is? Is it a resentful spirit or something else?"

"Our master does not belong to any family. It has no surname." The skeleton sat upright, and its voice was simulated with dark elements, so it was completely motionless when speaking: "It is a skeleton, a great necromancer."

"Withered spirit bones naturally bred from skeletons? I remember correctly. The upper limit of withered spirit bones is very low." Nasha also hugged a crystal fruit: "Let me think about it, it seems that you can learn high-level magic. It seems that you can learn it." There are several sub-levels, no more than three, and the physical fitness is not very good. Is it similar to the elves or slightly stronger?"

"Even so, my master is still a very powerful necromancer." The skeleton's tone sounded a little unhappy: "We are not inferior to you."

"No offense, don't mind." Nasha smiled at him, then stuffed a piece of crystal fruit into her mouth, and narrowed her eyes with satisfaction: "It's delicious, I didn't expect there to be such sweet fruit here. "

Ouyue didn't understand what the undead had anyway, so she didn't bother to get involved in the conversation between them, and just ate the crystal fruit seriously.

They arrived here through a gap in the wall. The gap was so small that only one person could pass through it at the same time. The big man transformed himself into an elongated shape and was able to slide in.

The space after entering is much larger than expected. The wall is almost hollow inside, and there are more than a thousand skeletons living here.

Ouyue looked at the big man looking around and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

Ouyue didn't know where the big guy came from, just like he didn't know why the big guy followed him. But since he not only didn't hurt himself, but also saved his life, he didn't bother to care so much.

He thought about it for a long time, but couldn't figure it out, so he just shrugged and continued to deal with the fruit in his hand.

"Oh, by the way." Ouyue suddenly remembered something, raised her head and asked the skeleton: "Are those spiders also the guardians here? If so, can you stop them from attacking us?"

The skeleton suddenly became quiet, and after a moment he helplessly covered his head: "I'm very sorry, I can't do it."

"Why?" Ouyue tilted her head: "Aren't those your pets?"

"No, they are a disaster here." The light in the skull's eye sockets suddenly dimmed, and he said feebly: "Back then, the master made a total of 2,049 skeletons, and sent one of them to guard the door, and the rest He will be responsible for building the tomb after his death."

His tone was full of helplessness: "We have spent more than a hundred years, and finally the tomb has been built to some extent. Everything is being installed slowly according to the engineering drawings. I believe that if the owner's soul can still stay in the world for a while, , I guess it will be very gratifying.”

"It's the back." Nasha took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth, burped with satisfaction, and lay on the stone chair and took a long breath, as if she was emptying the remaining air in her stomach.

Ouyue looked at the skeleton, and his two pointed little ears stood up slightly. He has liked listening to stories since he was a child. It should be said that there are no children who don't like listening to stories.

"Later we discovered that the aboriginal people here are those spiders." The skeleton's voice contained some regret: "We knew about their existence from the beginning. When the master came, he tried his best to kill all the spiders he could see. . But I didn’t expect those things to survive in the cave walls for more than a hundred years. Although we have a great advantage in fighting spiders, our battle losses cannot be replenished. "

Ouyue was stunned for a moment. He turned around and asked Nasha: "Why is this?"

"In the final analysis, skeletons are just puppets that rely on the core magic circle. Generally speaking, they are divided into living corpses and walking corpses based on their intelligence. The walking corpses can be supplemented by living corpses, but living corpses cannot be made. Living corpse." Nasha explained to Ouyue: "Because the production of living corpses is a second level, and even if living corpses learn magic, the limit is just to barely learn a few high-level ones. Therefore, walking zombies without intelligence are also made."

"Because of this, our number is getting smaller and smaller, while those disgusting things are getting more and more." There was a hint of bitterness in the voice of the skeleton: "In order to reduce consumption, we hid here. The existing skeletons are only There are only a thousand dignified ones left, but the number of giant spiders outside is increasing every day.”

When he said this, he suddenly sighed: "Even the altar where the master's bones are placed has been attacked. Fortunately, there is a crystal corpse puppet there, so the master's bones will not be contaminated. But when it rises, it will not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. We can’t get close to the altar either.”

"What is the Crystal Corpse Puppet?" Ouyue seemed to have developed the habit of asking Nasha if she didn't understand anything, blinking and waiting for her to answer him.

"I really don't know this." Nasha spread her hands.

Then both little guys looked at the skeleton with curious eyes.

"I only know its name and have seen it once or twice. I know that it was made by the owner to protect the altar." The skeleton also spread its hands: "If you ask me to tell you what it is, I really don't know. "

"Oh, it sounds pretty awesome." Nasha said casually, and then she asked: "If we want to leave, how should we go?"

"Sorry, the only entrance and exit is in a place occupied by spiders, so it may be a little difficult to leave." The skeleton said helplessly.

It looked at the gray faces of the two little guys, thought for a while and said:

"If you don't mind, you can rest here." The skeleton looked at the two of them and said, "I should be able to find some clothes that you can wear."

Ouyue and Nasha looked very miserable now. They were dirty and their clothes were in tatters. They looked like little beggars on the roadside that no one wanted.

But with cute children like them, no one would want to reject them, right?

"That's great." Nasha stretched out: "Is there any hot water here? I want to take a bath."

"The water here is spring water, you can burn it if you want to take a bath." The skeleton stood up: "Come with me, I will take you to find a place to stay."

He picked up the crystals used for lighting on the table, put them in a wire cage, and carried them in his hands: "If you are almost done eating, follow me."

"Can I get two crystal fruits?" Ouyue pointed to a few uncut fruits on the table: "The elves have to keep eating. We get hungry very quickly. It's too troublesome to come here every time."

"You can just take these as you like. No one here needs to eat anyway." The skeleton said, and then it turned to look at Nasha: "If you want to replenish your blood, just come to me. Our master is here to entertain us. My fellow vampires have stored some blood. Although it has been kept for a long time, it is sealed very high, so it should not be broken yet."

Nasha shrugged: "Elf blood can be stored for more than five hundred years as long as it is put in a bottle. If it is better preserved, it can last for thousands of years. The bottle I drank just now feels like it has been stored for about two hundred years, although it is not as good as the fresh one. It tastes good, but it’s much stronger than other blood.”

As she spoke, she jumped down from her chair and followed the skeleton.

Ouyue couldn't help feeling a chill on the back of her neck when she heard this, and then shook her head, hoping to drive away her uneasiness in this way.

He stood up and just took two steps when he suddenly thought of the big man sitting there: "Do you want to follow?"

The big square head nodded, and then suddenly melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After melting, it was like a puddle of black water on the ground, and then melted into the shadow of Ouyue. His shadow became pitch black, so black that no light could shine through.

"Your friend is so awesome." Nasha sighed sincerely: "What is he?"

Ouyue thought that Lowenstein seemed to have told him the origin of the big guy in the Castle of Strath in the Forest of All Souls. So he scratched his head, trying to copy the explanation at that time, but then he realized that he didn't listen carefully at that time, and he couldn't remember many nouns.

"Sorry, I don't know." At the end, Ouyue could only scratch her head and said helplessly.

Then he picked up a crystal fruit. This thing was so big that he could hold it with both arms open.

Holding the crystal fruit in his arms, he followed the skeleton holding the lamp in a few steps.

"What should we call you?" Ou Yue raised her head and looked at the skeleton and asked.

"You can shout happily, I don't have a name." The skeleton said nonchalantly: "If you have any questions, you can ask other skeletons. We are all willing to help the little guy."

The light from the crystal illuminated the front, which was a long and narrow corridor, with bustling reliefs on the walls and patterns carved on the ground. Each pattern was carved with a carving knife. It was so gorgeous that it made people feel a little unrealistic.

"Did you build all of these?" Ouyue looked at it and couldn't help but admire: "It's really amazing."

"The value we were created is to do this kind of thing." The skeleton's voice did not change at all.

"Did you also build those stone bridges?" Nasha suddenly remembered the stone bridges they accidentally broke on the road and scratched her hair: "We seem to have broken a few accidentally."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, without care, it will break down sooner or later." The skeleton's voice suddenly had a hint of desolation, and then sighed: "I don't know when this place will become ruins."

They walked through the corridor, and Ou Yue finally understood that the skeleton was carrying a lamp. There was no lighting equipment in this corridor, not even a torch.

"I will prepare some lighting tools for you." The skeleton said: "We don't need lights, because we are born in darkness, and naturally our vision will not be blocked by darkness."

"It sounds so convenient." Ou Yue praised, "Can I learn it too?"

"Okay, it's not that difficult in itself. Although it's a natural ability for us, in the end it's just a low-level dark spell." The skeleton thought for a while and said, "But we don't know what this spell should be. How to use it? It’s embarrassing to say that none of us among all the guys can use magic.”

Suddenly, various complicated sounds came from below, and various sounds echoed in the originally silent space.

Suddenly, a skeleton appeared in front of him from the darkness. It held a bucket and fibers from unknown plants, and wiped the dust on the walls or stone steps with water. He pretended not to see Ouyue and others passing by.

Ou Yue subconsciously raised her hand and touched the wall, but found that there was no dirt at all.

"Why do you need to wipe it when it's already so clean?" he turned around and asked.

"We skeletons are laborers and cannot be idle." The leading skeleton said: "Now, except for going out to maintain this last bit of territory, we stay here. Even idle time is idle, and we have to find something to do for ourselves."

The stairs finally came to an end, and they reached the bottom of the place. As the skeleton said, it is indeed dark here without any lighting facilities.

Different sounds came from most rooms here, some sounded like blacksmithing, some were polishing something, or other movements, but there was no sound of speaking.

This feeling can't help but make people feel depressed.

"Oh, I forgot to ask." The skeleton suddenly turned around: "How many rooms will I prepare for you? Do you want to live in one or two? Do you need to prepare a place for the big guy?"

"One room is enough." Before Ou Yue could say anything, Nasha said on her own initiative. Then she turned to look at Ou Yue: "No problem. It will be convenient for us to discuss things."

"It doesn't matter to me if you don't mind." Ou Yue shrugged.

At their age, there is probably no concept of gender. In addition, few people in the families of elves and vampires would mention this kind of thing to them, so that most elves don't know about it until they are almost 20 years old. As for vampires, it's completely random. If anyone can think of it, just tell them. If you can't think of it, it will probably take decades to find out.

The skeleton nodded slightly, and then led them to an iron door:

"You guys should take a look at how it is here first." Skeleton said, "If you feel you don't like anything, just change it. Anyway, there are plenty of empty rooms."