Skeleton King

Four years later.Pansy Imperial Calendar March 1012.

In the south of the Dead Realm, Eternal Night City.

There was a long queue at the gate of Eternal Night City, and the queue was so endless that people couldn't see the end.The skeletons lined up include weak first-level and second-level undead creatures, as well as powerful sixth-level and seventh-level undead creatures.

At this time, they all lined up quietly.The lives of undead creatures are extremely long, and what they need most is patience. However, the fire of souls in the skulls and chests of many skeletons is jumping irregularly, and they are communicating with each other.

"Have you heard? The city lord of Eternal Night City doesn't need us to sign a contract with the city?"

"Jie Jie. Then why do we live in Eternal Night City? Jie Jie. Are there still great good people in the Dead Realm?"

"If you want to pay ghost coins, Eternal Night City only accepts ghost coins, and the currency of other cities, even if it is the currency of the central city, Eternal Night City will not accept it."

"I've also heard that no matter what level of undead creatures come to Eternal Night City, they must pay 10 ghost coins per day and 300 ghost coins per month. I plan to stay in Eternal Night City for one month. The last elemental storm Both of my bones are frostbitten. It won't be easy to heal in the wild. Only the magic elements in the city are gentler, and I have a chance to heal my wounds."

"However, Eternal Night City does not sign a contract with the skeletons. What if other undead lords come to attack Eternal Night City? If we live in Eternal Night City, we will also be extinguished by the fire of souls?"

"Do you know how many well-known skeletons there are in Eternal Night City? Those lone rangers, powerful skeletons who are unwilling to join other undead lords, all come to Eternal Night City. Even if they don't stay for long, they will enter the city from time to time Rest, trade, and have fun. I heard that Eternal Night City has the most beautiful pink skeleton in the dead world."

"When will I have such strength, Pink Skull."

"Yeah, we will join the city of some undead lord and survive for thousands of years. Maybe that undead lord will be defeated by other undead lords, and we will be free. But at that time, I definitely don't want to join the city again Those big people, who didn’t come here like this, they originally had no other choice but to build their own city or stay in the wilderness. Now, with Eternal Night City, how could they want Eternal Night City to disappear?”

"Yes, as long as half of the big shots are willing to make a move, Eternal Night City will never fall."

"Haven't you heard of the Knights of the Eternal Night? Before, Bacon and Reagan, the lords of the undead, both admitted that the Knights of the Eternal Night were the most powerful knights in the southern part of the dead world, and even other undead lords did not stand up to deny it. Legend has it that For 1000 years, the wilderness has been the territory of the Eternal Night Knights."

"Then why haven't I heard of the Eternal Night Knights before?"

"Because they were waiting for the lord of Eternal Night City. According to legend, only the lord of Eternal Night City can awaken the Knights of Eternal Night."

"Who is the owner of Eternal Night City?"

"Don't say it, don't say it."

"Why doesn't Evernight City sign a contract with skeleton soldiers? I really want to join them."

……

While communicating, the skeletons slowly moved forward in an orderly manner.

Until the appearance of a powerful undead creature broke the calm, the gate of the city became noisy in an instant.

On the city wall, Angela looked at the chaotic team and asked curiously, "Your Highness, what happened?"

Ace stood next to Angela. Four years had brought earth-shaking changes to Ace. Ace's black hair was a little longer, and the tips of his hair had already touched his shoulders. He still had some immature facial features. , has completely faded from the youthful shell, and has become handsome and charming, and his aura in every gesture, is not at all like a small nobleman from the southern part of the empire, but like a superior who is in charge of thousands of troops and the lives of countless people.

In fact, that's who Ace is now.

Four years have passed, Angela is a level [-] necromancer, and Ace is also a level [-], plus Ace's status as the lord of Night City, he is indeed the overlord in the dead world.

However, Ace seemed like nothing had changed.

Ace glanced under the city wall lazily, and said, "There's an old skeleton making trouble."

Angela: "Old skeleton?"

Skeletons are not like living people, and their age can be seen from their appearance.

Angela thought, could Ace be able to tell how long the fire of his soul has been burning by looking at the skeleton?

Ace said nonchalantly: "Look, that skeleton has loose teeth and osteoporosis. It must be an old skeleton."

Angela: ...

Ace: "The one behind him, the one who hasn't grown up yet, is called Little Skeleton."

Angela giggled, until the flowers trembled.

However, General Arnold behind Ace shook his head and said, "Your Highness is young after all, so he has escaped a bit."

At the gate of the city wall, the old skeleton was bargaining with the skeleton soldiers guarding the gate of Eternal Night City, "I am willing to be loyal to the Lord Lord of Eternal Night City, and sign a contract with Eternal Night City. After that, do I still need to pay ghost coins?"

Skeleton soldier: "Eternal Night City has the rules of Eternal Night City. If your lord wants to be loyal to our city lord, you can go to the city lord's mansion to find General Arnold. If you are strong enough, you can naturally join Eternal Night City. But now, the entrance fee is still required. handed over."

The old skeleton gave a sinister laugh, a bone spur suddenly appeared on the bone of his hand, and in an instant he turned his palm over, piercing the bone spur into the ground.

You know, the gate of the city is already within the range of Eternal Night City. Unlike the muddy ground in the wilderness, the ground here is very hard. Even if some powerful skeletons can insert bone spurs into the ground, it is impossible for them to be like the old skeleton. Take it lightly.

At the same time, the soul fire of the old skeleton was booming, not to mention the skeleton soldiers he was facing, even the other skeletons who lined up behind him and were about to enter the city of Eternal Night all took two steps back, his voice was sinister, "Do you still want to charge me Ming coins? Are you not afraid that I will go to the city and ask you to pay them back?"

Although the old skeleton has no accessories around it, it is extremely powerful, and it is already a seventh-level undead creature.

Although the skeleton soldier facing the old skeleton took a few steps back again and again, his voice sounded calm and fearless, "My lord, you are not allowed to do anything in Eternal Night City. These years, the feet of the Eternal Night Knights are paved with bones and soul crystals." Lu. If your lord is willing to offer your seventh-level soul crystal, Eternal Night City is not unacceptable!"

The old skeleton and the skeleton soldier just confronted each other.

The skeletons behind the old skeleton made a commotion, and there were level [-] undead creatures facing Evernight City, which might hurt innocent people like them.

At this moment, Captain Skeleton, who was guarding the gate of the city, came over and asked, "What happened?"

The skeleton soldier and the old skeleton were silent.The former is to resist the coercion of the old skeleton, not only can't speak, even the soul fire can't transmit information.The latter is presumably weighing pros and cons.

Not long after, a small pile of ghost coins appeared out of thin air on the old skeleton's hand bones. The ghost coins were only the size of an ordinary person's fingernail, and there were strong dark magic elements on them. They were currencies recognized by all cities in the dead world.

The old skeleton put the ghost coin in his hand into the skeleton soldier's hand. He stared at the skeleton soldier, but said to the skeleton captain in Eternal Night City: "It's okay. I'm going to stay in Eternal Night City for a year. point."

Afterwards, the old skeleton took the entrance card from the skeleton soldier's hand bone, and "360" was written on the sign, which proved that the old skeleton had paid the entry fee for one year.After that, every day that passes, the number on the sign will decrease by 1 until it becomes 0, and then the skeleton soldiers in Evernight City will ask the old skeleton to go out.

Angela heard what Ace said about the old skeleton at the gate of the city, and asked, "Your Highness, are you not afraid of him making trouble in the city?" After all, he is a level seven undead creature.

General Arnold took the initiative to explain to Angela: "The magic circle in Eternal Night City has attack types. As long as there are skeleton knights from the Eternal Night Knights guarding the magic circle, unless several liches enter the city at the same time, there will be no undead creatures to attack." Eternal Night City caused chaos."

Angela: "But, General Arnold is here now, we have all seen it, that skeleton is restless, why not kill the danger in the cradle?"

Ace: "Don't bother General Arnold about these things. Otherwise, General Arnold will do everything in Eternal Night City. Why do we support so many people?"

Over the years, Ace has still signed contracts with some foreign skeletons, but they are all time-limited and rewarded.Ace feels that different work attitudes can bring different rewards and get different results.

General Arnold opposed it at first, feeling that it was unnecessary.

Ace asked him, "Are you His Highness, or am I His Highness?"

General Arnold stopped talking.

Ace established Eternal Night City according to his own ideas. He wanted to make Eternal Night City a big city not inferior to Central City. He wanted it to be a paradise for skeletons.

Ace took General Arnold and Angela on the streets of Eternal Night City. Unlike most cities in the dead world, which only have simple stalls, the prosperity of Eternal Night City is not inferior to some big cities in this world.There are a wide variety of products, shops decorated with monster teeth, some shops emit a soft blue light, and some shops are like insoluble ink, so dark that it seeps into people.

This is a scenery that has never existed in this world.

This is the prosperity that belongs exclusively to the Dead Realm.

Ace walked back to the Santo's Mansion with General Arnold and Angela. When he was about to arrive at the Santo's Mansion, Ace saw a pink shop, a three-story building rarely seen in the dead world. On the upstairs balcony, there was a bone A pink skull, holding a pink round fan in her hand, gently fanning between Ace and her.

Ace had attended banquets when he was a child, and he was familiar with the routines of many ladies.

but……

"What is this?" Ace asked.

General Arnold didn't speak, but Angela said bluntly, "The brothel. I've always wanted to visit, but General Arnold wouldn't let me. There are quite a few pink skeletons that are famous in the world of the dead, and we have several in Eternal Night City!"

Ace scolded: "Nonsense! Is this the place you should go?!" Then he said to General Arnold: "Let them move to another place. It's not that Eternal Night City can't accommodate them, but don't build it near the City Lord's Mansion."

Angela went back to the backyard in a dispirited mood. She still had to repair the armor of the Knights of Eternal Night.

Angela is not afraid of Ace, but since she breaks through the fourth level, Ace will throw her back to the world and throw her to Angelica if she disagrees.

Angela was not a well-behaved character, and she became wild after a few years in the dead world.At first, Angela pretended to be in front of General Arnold. Later, Angela found out that General Arnold is a paper tiger to ladies, and Ace has been pampering her all the time. She almost ordered the little skeletons to dance in the square behind the Santo's Mansion. .

Ace couldn't control her at all.Fortunately, Angelika has a natural deterrent power in front of Angela. Even if Angela is now a fourth-level necromancer, this food chain has not changed at all.

Angela, on the other hand, missed her sister so much, but now she almost hugged Ace's thigh and cried, clamoring to go back to the dead world.

As soon as General Ace and Arnold returned to the City Lord's Mansion, a skeleton knight came and told them that the Knights of Eternal Night had returned.

Over the years, the Knights of Eternal Night have also fought against the armies of other undead lords from time to time. They were originally led by General Arnold, but now the number of vulgar things in Eternal Night City is increasing day by day, and Ace has no time to manage, so it is all on General Arnold. .

General Arnold is not available, a battle that can be resolved by a cavalry brigade, General Arnold will not go out.This can also train the other skeleton knight commanders and skeleton knight commanders in the Eternal Night Knights.

Knights of Eternal Night, originally the Knights of the Royal Guards.

Shortly after Evernight City was built, General Arnold asked Ace to rename the Knights.When Ace heard about the Knights of the Royal Guard, he always thought of the Knights of the Pansy Empire, and thought it would be a good idea to change the name of the Knights.Ace named the Skull Knights the Eternal Night Knights, implying the rise and fall of Eternal Night City and the Eternal Night Knights.

As skeleton knights continued to advance in the Little Necromancer Sea, restoring their former strength, the reputation of the Knights of Eternal Night was gradually gaining ground in the realm of the dead.Ace believes that one day, the Knights of Eternal Night will make all the skeletons in the dead world scared to pieces when they hear their arrival.

Ace: "General Arnold, thank you for your hard work. I will find someone to take over the affairs of Evernight City as soon as possible."

General Arnold: "It is my honor to share the concerns of Your Highness."

Ace is getting along well with General Arnold, and there are people who don't have eyes to disturb the atmosphere.Ace felt a heavy impact on the back of his head, which made Ace's center of gravity unsteady.Ace took a step forward before standing still. He looked up at the culprit, "Nuen, what are you doing?!"

Above Ace's head, the little golden dragon stretched its wings and let out a happy cry of "Aw--".

The Norn flew up from above Ace's head, grabbing a few strands of Ace's hair in its tiny paws.

Soon, Norn's long howl resounded throughout Eternal Night City.Speaking of Norn, it is very famous not only in Evernight City, but also in the southern part of the Dead Realm.All the undead creatures living in Eternal Night City know that the city lord of Eternal Night City raised a dragon.

That is His Royal Highness Norn.

But most of them thought that Norn was a bone dragon, and it was only because of its strength that it looked like flesh and blood.Only a few people in the Knights of Eternal Night know that the norn are the real dragons.

Fortunately, the people living in Eternal Night City are all undead creatures, and Norn's dragon might have little effect on them, otherwise the order of Eternal Night City would have been messed up if Norn howled twice from time to time.However, neither Ace nor General Arnold allowed Norn to leave Evernight City too far, otherwise Norn would be captured by other passing undead lords, and Ace would have nowhere to cry.

Since the decisive battle between Ace and the man in black four years ago, Norn accidentally discovered that Ace still has a city in the dead world, and Norn has been relying on Evernight City.Not only does Angela have the same culinary skills as Angelica, and she can make delicious minced meat, but also, only in the dead world, Norn can fly to its heart's content, it is the real king of the air.

Norn stopped on the building of the Lord's Mansion in Eternal Night City and looked at Ace quietly.

Ace let Norn come down, he hugged Norn, and carefully checked if it had gained weight, suddenly, Ace noticed that the edges of Norn's wings had turned black.It's just that when Norn waved its wings again, its wings were shining golden again, and the blackness before had disappeared without a trace.

Ace didn't know if this was his illusion, or Norn stayed in the dead world for too long and was affected by the dark magic element.

Nuoen flew into the sky from Ace's arms, and at its age, it was at the time of restlessness.Norn flew over the City Lord's Mansion in Eternal Night City, flew over the streets near the City Lord's Mansion, and gradually disappeared from Ace's sight.

General Arnold: "Your Highness, aren't you afraid that it won't come back?"

The former Norn was willing to stay by Ace's side with peace of mind because he had no contact with other lives. When one day, it understands that its origin determines that it is above all living beings, will it come back?

Ace's eyes still stayed in the direction where Norn left, and he said, "Norn, it was originally free."