Skeleton King

Ace returned to the villa and took a good bath.

After taking a bath, Ace went to the laboratory on the fourth floor.After Master Gabriel went to the Magic Tower on the outskirts, the laboratory became empty.Ace would come up from time to time to make some magic potions.

Ace took a bottle of prepared pink purification potion and went down to the second floor.

Nuo Ou just finished bathing, he was wiping his hair with a big towel, when he saw Ace coming, he said, "Oh, you're here again."

Ace shook the potion bottle in his hand, "It's fresh from the oven."

Nou took Ace's purification potion, "To be honest, I have a shadow of the potion you made." Even so, he still drank the magic potion that was very face-saving to Ace and sent him down.

Nou: "Tomorrow is the day when Grand Knight Commander Ross announces the candidates for the tournament in Westphalia." In fact, only a few knights are usually in charge of the training camp. Only come once or twice.It's just that the Grand Knight Commander Ross comes more frequently when it comes to selecting candidates to participate in the Westphalia Provincial Tournament.

Ace: "Then I won't go tomorrow..."

"If Grand Cavalier Ross elects you, it will be said that you are seriously ill." Before Ace finished speaking, Nou continued.

Ace stared at Nou for a while, then nodded fiercely: "Yes."

However, Ash's words about his serious illness were useless.The next day, Ace was not among the candidates selected by Grand Knight Commander Ross to participate in the tournament, but Nou was on the list.

At night, Ace accompanied Angelica to pack Nou's clothes.

Ace packed a few pieces of clothes that Nou often wore into a box, "I'm not saying, no matter who chooses, you will go. You are the face of the Georgia Knights, and the Grand Knight Commander Ross will definitely think about it." To take you out for a stroll."

Nuo Ou: "As long as you work hard, we can go together. You can also go home and have a look."

Ace: "The province of Westphalia is big, and it's not back to Bad Soden."

Nou asked curiously, "What kind of place is Bad Soden? I really want to go and see it."

Ace: "It's definitely not as good as the eastern plains of the Louisiana province. The Neumann family only has one viscount title, and the fief has eight or nine small villages. Bad Soden is the largest one, and we usually live there. Small Villages, small estates, nothing to see."

Nuo Ou: "I just want to go and have a look."

"You went, maybe Viscount Neumann will curry favor with you... Not necessarily, I haven't seen him curry favor with others... Could it be that he is putting on an elder face, well, I don't know." In fact, Ace didn't get along with Viscount Neumann much, and didn't know much about him.

Ace changed the subject bluntly, "You will be going for more than two months, can you bring your attendants?"

"Ace, you are really strange to your father. Your family should be very well behaved." Nou said: "The Grand Knight Commander Ross didn't say so, so it should be fine. But I don't want to take the servants who can ride horses in my villa. .Can you borrow me from your previous servant?"

Nuo Ou only met Gerhard a few times, and he was a very handsome young man in his impression, but he didn't know much about him.However, Nuo Ou has a lot of contact with Angelica, Angelica is a very well-behaved and smart maid, and he can't help but have great expectations for Gerhard.

Ace: "Gerhard? He has a big heart and no brains. If you take him with you, in addition to being able to chop a fire for you and put on armor, you may have to worry about him."

Hearing what Ace said, Nou gave up his thoughts, "Oh, forget it. I still don't bring my attendants."

Nou: "We haven't been apart that long since we met?"

Ace smiled frivolously and asked, "Will you miss me?"

Nou said indifferently: "No."

However, what Ace didn't expect was that the next morning after Nou left, he missed Nou a little bit.Although there were still more than a dozen people in the villa, and Angelica and Warcraft Egg accompanied him as always, but after Nuoou left, he always felt that something was missing.

Ace scratched at his hair, turning it into a chicken coop.

"I don't want to!" Ace said to himself, he stayed in the villa, not because he was lazy and didn't want to participate in the tournament, but because he had a mission.Ace put the Warcraft egg into the space bracer, and took out a small wooden box from it.

Ace let out a breath, and opened the small wooden box, and there was a little doll lying quietly in the wooden box.

Angelica walked into the room quietly, and put milk and biscuits on the table.Ace sat up with his upper body and leaned against the back of the bed. His green eyes were deep and mysterious, and the pupils were constantly intertwined with light, as if forming some kind of formation.

Ace looked carefully at the snow-white wall in front of him, as if there was something mysterious and invisible to ordinary people.

Ace's pupils didn't move, and his expression was cold, "Angelica, don't come into my room for the next two months, and if you have something delivered, just put it on the table in the outside room."

"Yes." Angelica bowed her knees and left Ace's room with the breakfast tray.

Ace closed his eyes slightly, the lines in his eyes disappeared, and his hand slowly stroked the delicate face of the astrology doll.

Ace didn't hesitate anymore, he took the astrology doll out of the wooden box and threw it directly into the air.The astrology doll stood suspended in the air, and its originally closed eyes also opened, and it was a pair of black eyes like the night sky.

Ace's eyes were closed.

In Ace's mind, he reinterpreted the world.The room he is in is no longer walls, blankets, tables, chairs, and beds, but all kinds of magical elements. By the window, the blue ones are wind; in the cup, blue ones are water; on the walls, yellow ones It is earth; in the fireplace, the red is fire.

Just like Ace's previous life, the arrangement and combination of various chemical elements constituted the world, and in this life, various magical elements also constituted everything.

The lighter reds, yellows, blues, and cyans are magical elements of light attributes, while the rarer dark reds, dark yellows, dark blues, and dark greens are magical elements of dark attributes.

And in some places on this plane, there are obviously more magic elements of these dark attributes than other places. This is the node between the world and the dead world, the place where the two planes meet.

All planes have two sides, one is light and the other is darkness.

The plane of light will produce a steady stream of souls, they are born, grow, and return to the plane of darkness.Only in this way can the two planes grow together, so that no one plane carries too many souls and dies prematurely.Like the Dutch village in "Sword and Magic", it has already destroyed the balance of the plane, so Magic Island had to come forward to solve it.

There are countless nodes in this world and the dead world for souls to pass through.

But this is a one-way ticket, only entering the world of the dead is not allowed.

found it!

Ace opened his eyes suddenly. Although there was still a snow-white wall in front of him, a door appeared in his pupils, a dark door that could swallow endless vitality.

"Fohao found Lemus for Anthracene..."

As Esmer chanted the spell, the gate of the dead world slowly opened.

Ace looked at the astrology doll, and the astrology doll looked at Ace, but they didn't have each other in their eyes, it was an open door.

Ace's lips like rose petals whispered a word: "Go!"

The astrology doll suddenly flew underground, and when it was about to hit the floor, it disappeared.

But in Ace's pupils, there is a doll flying to the gate of the dead world.When the doll flew over the gate of the dead world, the gate of the dead world slowly closed.

At the same time, Ace, who was sitting on the bed, tilted his body and fell directly on the bed, his originally bright red lips also lost their blood.No one in the villa knew about it, and Ace was unconscious.

dead world.

The gray sky is like a dirty window, making it difficult to see clearly. The chilly wind blows through the bare tree branches. Only two or three dead trees can be seen on the open land. There is not even a single leaf on the ground. Lifeless.

"It's not bad that I didn't fall into the melee of the skeleton army." A person covered in a black cloak said to himself.

He took two steps forward, but he tripped and fell. The culprit was a half-white bone protruding from the brown ground.

"Damn it, I haven't used this body proficiently." That's right, the man in the black cloak is Ace.Ace put a ray of soul into the astrology doll, and followed the astrology doll through the gate of the dead world. When the astrology doll arrived in the dead world, it automatically became the most suitable size for Ace to display his strength.

Ace wasn't proficient in using his body, so he could only find a dead branch from the ground, put it in his hand, and walked forward.

Ace didn't go forward for long, and saw two black stones on the ground.These two black stones are boundary stones, which often appear at the junction of the dead world and the present world.

Ace picked them up and put them in a small pocket.In order to avoid encountering powerful undead or being killed by skeleton generals and losing important things, Ace did not dare to wear the space bracer.

However, Ace brought the staff of the dead.

Although the Undead Staff is more precious than the Space Bracers, without the Necromancer Staff, Ace's power to cast undead magic will be greatly reduced.

There is no sun, moon and stars in the world of the dead. Ace didn't know how long time had passed, and he couldn't tell the direction, so he had to pick a direction at random and walk forward.Space becomes infinitely vast, and time becomes infinitely long.

Ace didn't know how long he walked until his hand holding the branch was thickly callused, and he didn't see any sane skeletons.

There are too many creatures appearing in the dead world, one in a thousand can keep the fire of the soul, and one in ten thousand can keep the mind.Even so, the lords of the undead still have to launch a big war from time to time, not only to compete for resources, but also to consume too weak subjects.

Finally, Ace saw a grave with a light purple flag that was rarely seen in the dead world.The whole flag is purple, but there is a white petal and a yellow petal in the middle, and the two petals face each other in the middle of the flag.

Ace has read a lot of books and knows quite a lot about the history of the Pansy Empire when he was in Bad Soden in order to maintain the persona of a teenager who dreams of becoming a scholar.Ace recognized this flag. It was the flag used by the troops of Alexander I, the founding emperor of the Pansy Empire, when he fought in the current Georgia province. It was also the flag of the Royal Guards at that time, the earliest pansy flag.

Pansy is a purple-white-yellow flower.

There are various theories about why the empire was named after the pansy flower. The most widely circulated theory is that the natural fighting spirit of the Keosi family can be divided into three colors: purple, white and yellow. The white fighting spirit is extremely fast, and the yellow fighting spirit is offensive. Extremely fierce, as for the effect of purple battle energy, it is a secret of the royal family of the Pansy Empire, which has never been spread.

And the colors of these three fighting spirits happen to be the same color as the pansy flower.

There is also a romantic version that is loved by bards and girls. It is said that Alexander I confessed to his beloved girl with a handful of pansy flowers picked from the mountain and succeeded.It's a pity that the beauty is unlucky, that girl left Alexander I early.

Alexander I named the empire after the pansy in memory of his beloved girl.

Ace didn't feel too much when he saw this flag, he was just a little happy in his heart. Except for the dead trees and the bones all over the ground, something different finally appeared. I hope he can meet Ghost Smoke.

Ace took another few steps forward full of energy.

Suddenly, Ace felt that something was wrong. His head turned around stiffly like a dead body. On the edge of the grave stood a knight in full gray armor. He held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. His body doesn't look like a skeleton soldier, only bones, with a faint magical element condensed on his body, at first glance it looks like skin, this turned out to be a powerful skeleton general who is about to become a lich!

Ace felt his tongue was bitter, how could he be so unlucky, there were no more than a hundred such strong men in the whole world of the dead, how could he meet him.

The dead world is too dangerous, he wants to go back, he wants to find Nuoou.

The staff of the dead, the astrology doll, and a ray of his own soul, he lost a lot this time.The first intelligent creature I saw in the world of the dead was General Skeleton. The chance of this is only one in a billion, and he was hit by him.

However, Ace waited for a long time, but the skeleton general did not move.

Taking a chance, Ace took a step forward. He felt a gust of wind. No, he didn't even feel a gust of wind. He saw the skeleton general appearing in front of him.

Ace cursed in his heart, damn it, General Skeleton didn't stay in his own city, what did he do in this desolate place.

But Ace didn't dare to show it. The Skeleton General was wearing a helmet of an unknown breed of beast and faced him. Of course, Ace was shorter, and it was the Skeleton General who looked down at him.

Ace felt his limbs were cold, and at this moment, he really felt that he was in the world of death.

General Skeleton held out his hand.

Oh, he's going to "die," Ace thought to himself.

The fire of the soul has faded, and he will probably be as weak as Carl Kaiser, with a splitting headache every day.

General Skeleton's finger touched Ace's forehead.

Ace only felt a tingling pain between his eyebrows, and saw a drop of blood floating from his eyebrows. Ace opened his eyes wide in horror. This is the body of an astrology doll, and there can be no blood. Could it be that this skeleton general passed through his Soul Fire connected to his current body, the blood taken from that body?

If this skeleton general has such strength, then he died here, but he really died.

But the dead world is still alive, and there is no Ace Neumann anymore.

The drop of blood floated from between Ace's eyebrows and landed on the Skeleton General's hand.The blood coagulated and did not disperse, rolling roundly on the skeleton general's hand.

Ace: What does that mean?

Although Ace was full of doubts in his heart, he didn't show it.It's not that he doesn't want to, but that he can't move now.

A dark wind blew past Ace.Is this the last wind he feels in this world?

General Skeleton finally moved.

he? ? ! !

He knelt down in front of Ace? ? ! !

General Skeleton knelt in front of Ace on one knee, "Siben Arnold, the head of the Knights of the Royal Guard is finally waiting for His Royal Highness."

Ace: Huh? !

Although Ace is still in a daze, General Skeleton is still talking about the final battle, "...Although all the knights of the Royal Knights of the Guards have died, I have kept the banner of the Royal Knights of the Guards. The Viola flag is flying in every corner of the world."

Ace: Brother, you have been dead for too long. In the end, Alexander I won. He unified dozens of small principalities. In terms of vastness, even the Finger Empire can’t compare to it. The pansy flag has been flying in many lands Yes, just not including the dead world.

General Skeleton: "Your Highness, Siben Arnold has been waiting here for a thousand years, and finally he is waiting for you. I have been guarding this flag and never left. For these thousand years, my only hope is for Your Highness to restore the number of the Royal Knights of the Guards. "

Thousands of years of waiting, no regrets.

Ace was also moved by Siben Arnold's spirit. Although he may be confused and recognize him as someone who doesn't know who, such persistent waiting is still moving.

Ace: "But, I can't..."

Ace was halfway through the conversation, only to find that the shackles imposed on him by Sieben Arnold disappeared, and he could speak and move again.

Sieben Arnold: "Your Highness, please restore the number of the Knights of the Royal Guard."

Ace: "I'm sorry, but you got the wrong person."

Sieben Arnold: "Your Highness, please restore the number of the Knights of the Royal Guard."

Ace: "I can't do that."

Sieben Arnold: "Your Highness, please restore the number of the Knights of the Royal Guard."

Ace: I can't talk today.

In the barren wilderness, no skeletons or undead dared to approach this area, because this was General Arnold's territory, and any undead creatures who tried to enter this territory were killed by General Arnold on the grounds that they were trying to harm the Knights' flag.There are only endless bones and endless wind here.

Ace didn't know how long he and Sieben Arnold had been deadlocked.

Sieben Arnold would neither kill him nor let him go.Ace said that he was willing to help him find someone or a ghost who could restore the number of the Knights of the Royal Guard, and let him continue to guard here, but he was not willing.

Ace was helpless, he broke the jar and shouted, "I allow the Royal Knights of the Guard to rebuild, and appoint Sieben Arnold as the head of the Knights."

I’ve said it all, it’s useless for me to talk about this.Ace felt like his saliva was about to splash on Sieben Arnold's helmet.

then.

"Crack clap."

"Crack clap."

"Crack clap."

Ace's white bones in all directions began to move, and in the brown ground, skeletons that had been buried for thousands of years broke through the ground.All Ace could see were countless skeleton soldiers, even where he couldn't see, there were bones rushing here.

One after another blue soul fires flew from the void, appearing in the skulls and chests of these skeleton soldiers.

Before Ace felt that he was about to be overwhelmed by the skeletons, the skeletons stopped a little away from him. They formed a circle and knelt down on one knee, "See Your Highness."

It is difficult for skeletons to make a sound, but these skeletons did, and more than one sound.

"See Your Highness."

"See Your Highness."

The huge sound spread far and wide, spreading to the entire dead world, announcing the rebuilding of the Royal Guard Knights and the birth of the future king of the dead world.

Ace stood where he was, and turned around twice, only to feel that the dead world is more mysterious than the real world.

At this moment, Siben Arnold inserted the large oval shield into the ground, and he held up his saber in both hands, offering it to Ace, "I wish to be loyal to Your Highness, with my body and my soul , keep Your Highness safe, and use my shield and my sword to accomplish His Highness's great cause."

The skeleton general said his oath, and the endless skeleton knights lowered their heads, "Your Highness, do you wish?"