Skeleton King

Dead Realm, Eternal Night City.

There is an independent small courtyard behind the City Lord's Mansion of Eternal Night City. There are many exotic flowers and fruits planted in the courtyard, as well as many herbs that the magic potion masters don't recognize. The plank road paved with boundary stones is separated. The medicine fields on the left side of the plank road are all light-type herbs, while the right side are all dark-type herbs.

General Arnold's actions were swift and resolute. The day after Ace asked Bill to study the magic potion formula, General Arnold made this medicine field.Not only that, General Arnold also invited the Lich Ingersoll in order to keep the herbs of the two attributes in the courtyard from interfering with each other.

Six years have passed since Ace last saw the Lich Ingersoll.Lich Ingersoll has not changed at all. He walks barefoot on the plank road. The dark cobblestone road makes his toes crystal clear like jade.Probably this is a lich, but no matter how far you go, Ingersoll's feet are as white as new, and his hair is smooth.

The Lich Ingersoll smiled lazily when he saw Ace, "Long time no see, Ace, don't worry."

Ace bowed slightly, "Master Ingersoll."

Lich Ingersoll turned sideways, avoiding Ace's salute, "When we met last time, you held Arnold's pitiful token in your hand, goodbye this time, you almost have two liches under your command gone."

Ace was surprised: "My men? Two liches?"

The Lich Ingersoll pointed to the stone house at the end of the plank road. This stone house was no different from other buildings in Eternal Night City on the outside, but there was something different inside. It was Bill's laboratory.

Ace laughed: "Bill does have the body of a lich, but his level was forcibly raised by the little Necromancer Sea. He is stronger than level nine, but he certainly cannot compete with a lich."

Ace doesn't think that there is anything in the south of the dead world that can be hidden from Lich Ingersoll, even if it is a small sea of ​​dead spirits, so he just said it.

Lich Ingersoll is indeed very satisfied with Ace's frankness. He has always disliked humans who think they are smart.Lich Ingersoll said: "However, you will soon have a real Lich under your command?"

Ace was taken aback, his first reaction was that Lich Ingersoll was willing to join Evernight City under his command.But Ace also knew that this was a daydream.But if this is not the case, what does Lich Ingersoll mean?

Ace looked at General Arnold belatedly. If it wasn't for a lich who wanted to join Evernight City, it would be...

The Lich Ingersoll looked at General Arnold and said with a smile: "Arnold, you have achieved your obsession for many years, and you should be about to break through?"

General Arnold was not surprised, he said: "The opportunity for a breakthrough is not so easy to meet."

Lich Ingersoll didn't care, and said, "It's just a matter of time."

Ace was overjoyed, "General Arnold, you, are you going to break through the Lich? Why don't you go to the Little Necromancer Sea, if you knew..." Ace's eyes drifted to the stone house.

If Ace knew that General Arnold was going to break through the Lich, he would definitely not have allowed Bill to occupy the stone house all these years.

Lich Ingersoll: "There is no rush. Others may break through outside and in the Little Necromancer Sea, but liches are also strong and weak. If it is Arnold..." Lich Ingersoll His voice was full of longing, and he said, "I don't know who is better, the one in Central City or Arnold?"

Ace didn't know why General Arnold hadn't broken through yet, but Lich Ingersoll asserted that he would be powerful in the future.It was General Arnold who explained it to Ace in detail, "Your Highness, when I was alive, I walked one way and became a sword master. In the past thousand years, I have walked another way. If I can break through again by myself. In the holy ranks, they will also be relatively powerful."

Ace said, "I look forward to that day."

Ace did not look forward to the future with General Arnold, but thanked Lich Ingersoll: "Thank you Lord Ingersoll for your help this time, otherwise it would take at least ten years for me and General Arnold to get the medicine field to such a scale." time."

Lich Ingersoll: "My work is not for nothing. I needed a few bottles of potions before. It just so happens that you have a magic pharmacist at the level of a lich. After a while, I will find all the ingredients. Ask him to make me some potions."

Naturally, Ace did not refuse. He also said a few words: "General Arnold said to find you, I was worried that you were sleeping, but I didn't expect you to come so soon."

The Lich Ingersoll gave Ace a blank look, and said angrily, "Human beings are really heartless. Since you came last time, I can't sleep anymore."

Ace rubbed his nose in embarrassment.

Lich Ingersoll's indisputable beauty is really too impactful.

Fortunately, Lich Ingersoll seemed to think that the City Lord's Mansion of Eternal Night City was nothing interesting, and wanted to leave.

Before the Lich Ingersoll left, he looked at Ace quietly, his eyes turned to Ace after thousands of years, "Ace Neumann, look forward to our next meeting Meet."

After the Lich Ingersoll left, Ace and General Arnold walked across the path and opened the door.

Bill's laboratory was different from most wizards' laboratories.Beside the wall of Bill's laboratory were several transparent, cylindrical magic potion bottles, each containing potions of different colors, among which there was a bottle of orange potion and a bottle of dark green potion that were constantly bubbling.These magic potion bottles can only be hugged by adults with open arms, and the height is as high as a person. The magic potions inside are all priceless.

Ace stood in front of a black potion bottle, and the black potion was like a mirror, perfectly reflecting Ace's figure.

Bill is standing at a table in the middle of the lab, making magic potions.

Ace looked at the messy things on the experimental table, waved the bone staff in his hand, and everything was as clean as new.Originally, when Ace and General Arnold entered the laboratory, Bill hadn't been alarmed, but Ace used magic, which almost made Bill fly into a rage.You must know that when a magician is experimenting, he is most afraid of other people using magic, which will confuse the magic elements in the space.

But fortunately, Bill recognized Ace and remembered each other's identities, so he held his breath.

Ace said coldly: "You have failed this experiment."

Although Bill was doing the experiment, it was Ace who lost the money. Ace would definitely not bother Bill if he was fine, and it would be a different matter if the experiment failed.Bill glared at Ace angrily, but Ace only focused on the crucible in front of Bill. The liquid in the crucible gradually solidified and turned into two small golden beads.

The magic potion should be liquid, if it turned into small beads, it must have failed.

Ace: "I thought that the magic potion you mentioned made progress, and you succeeded in making it. Unexpectedly, you definitely failed. You don't think that I let you enjoy the Yanghai of the Little Necromancer Sea alone. Four years, is it for you to play marbles?!"

Bill: "His Royal Highness Norn should like such marbles."

Ace raised Nuo En as his son, and many people in Evernight City called Nuo En His Highness Nuo En.

Ace thought for a while, this little golden bead was shining like gold, Norn would really like it.But, but the problem now is not this, Ace is a little outraged, "It is said that Yongye City is rich and rich, earning millions of Ming coins every day, and in the end, it can't afford to support you alone."

Bill felt a bit broken, "I tried my best."

There is a contract between Ace and Bill, of course he knows that Bill is not lying, but this makes Ace even more angry.

Bill is an old god, and he experienced more failures on Magic Island.Bill held the cauldron in his left hand, and took out the small golden bead with his right hand.Not long after Ace threw Bill into the sea of ​​necromancers, he found a suitable right hand bone for him in the dead world. When Bill woke up from the sea of ​​necromancers, his hand bones had already integrated with his body. Not out is external.

Of course, Bill occasionally thought about it, and this hand made him lose the sense of making potions, but Ace would ignore it.General Arnold was even more ruthless. He said: "Things like hand feeling can be obtained after practice. How many years have you lived before, and how many years have you only practiced medicine. After you die, you will find out that the days are still long." .”

Bill:  …

Bill was so angry that he went on strike for two days. It was only after Ace returned to the dead world that he honestly started making magic potions again.

At this time, in the magician's laboratory in the stone house, there was no magic lamp for lighting, and the bubbling orange potion on the far side exuded a faint light, just enough to illuminate the laboratory.Besides, Ace has the ability of night vision, General Arnold and Bill are even undead creatures, and there is no saying that they cannot be invisible in the dark.

Ace said to Bill: "Show me the prescription of that legendary magic potion."

Bill took out a wooden box from the lab table and handed it to Ace.

After the first battle in the World of Warcraft Forest Grand Canyon, Ace confiscated Bill's space ring, and the prescription for the magic potion was also in it.But after Bill woke up, Ace returned the space ring to its original owner.It was Noou's space ring that Bill had snatched from the Magic Tower before, and was kept by Ace.It's just that Ace hasn't figured out how to return it to Nou.

Ace took out the medicine prescription from the wooden box, opened it, and read, "Magnolia flower, Meiyu lion's magic crystal powder, zapong fruit, blood of three beasts, viper..."

All the ingredients involved in the prescriptions are extremely rare materials, that is, Bill has his inventory in Magic Island, and now he has Eternal Night City as the backing, otherwise these materials are magicians, and he can spend them on his own. It is difficult to gather together for decades.

Ace read the prescription of the potion several times, and recalled the steps when he watched Bill make the potion.Ace thought it over and decided that Bill was completely right.

However, this shouldn't be the case.

Ace walked to the table on the right side of Bill's laboratory and carefully looked at the bottles and jars on the table. Bill specially used a table to hold the herbs and other materials needed for this medicine recipe.

Suddenly, Ace pointed to a red bottle and asked, "What is this?"

Bill: "The blood of the three beasts is the blood of the Unicorn, the Jade Suanni, and the Flaming Beast."

Ace looked over the materials on the lab again, and said, "No, no."

Bill: "Your Highness, is there something wrong?"

Ace: "The blood of the three beasts, if there is any error in these materials, it must be the blood of the three beasts. These materials are all extremely rare. The Meiyu lion is a tenth-level monster, and it was collected by the Kaiser Chamber of Commerce at the auction in the imperial capital of the Finger Empire. Come, Zapong fruit has been extinct for many years, direct raw food can also make a swordsman advance, it is the bottleneck for nine-level swordsmen to hit the sword master, before that, taking a Zapong fruit also has a miraculous effect."

"Compared to the others, the blood of the three beasts is too ordinary."

Bill: "Jade Suanni and Flame Beast are level eight monsters, and unicorns are level nine monsters. These three kinds of blood are not ordinary."

Ace: "But compared to others, this is the best, isn't it?"

Bill stopped talking, Ace walked quickly outside the stone house, yelled twice, and then said to Bill: "Bring an empty bottle."

According to Ace's request, Bill took the bottle and walked to the door of the stone house. He saw Ace squatting on the ground, bargaining with His Royal Highness Norn, "As long as a little blood, you will heal in a few minutes. How about taking you out to play for two days? Do you want to go to the sea? When you wave your wings on the sea, it will stir up countless waves."

Ace looked like a big bad wolf who lured Little Red Riding Hood to open the door.

But Norn obviously regarded Ace as his own father. After hesitating for a while, he stretched out his wings and let Ace take blood.Ace carefully slashed the norn's wings with the dagger, then watched the blood drip into the bottle, making sure not a single drop was leaking.

Ace felt that the amount was about the same, so he closed the bottle. He watched the wound on Norn's wing slowly close until it disappeared.

Ace took out the Dragon King Horn from his bosom, which he got by spending 1000 gold coins in the sea market, put it on Norn's paw, and said, "Take it and play with it. It may be something from your ancestors. You can Go to Angela, let her cook for you whatever you want to eat, just say I said it."

"Aw——" Norn groaned and flew away happily.

When Norn first came to the Dead Realm, Angela was in charge of the food, but later Angela was too busy making armors, and Ace didn't want Angela to be overqualified, so he invited the best cook skeleton in the Dead Realm to cook for Norn.Then, maybe when Norn was born, he grew up eating minced meat pounded by Angelica. It recognized this taste, and even the skeleton, which claimed to be the chef of the pansy imperial court banquet, did not satisfy Norn.

In the end, Ace was so angry that he let Norn go out to hunt by himself, and Norn stopped.

Bill took the blood bottle from Ace, and he re-ignited a crucible with a smoldering fire, and then put two golden beads in it. These were failed semi-finished products, and Bill had to use them for experiments first.

Not long after, the two golden beads turned into a liquid. Bill carefully dripped two drops of Norn's blood into it, and then he saw that the original golden liquid turned black, and the liquid...

Ace was staring at the potion in the crucible and didn't notice any abnormalities. Suddenly, he found that Bill and General Arnold were motionless. It wasn't that time had stopped, but that they seemed to be enchanted or stunned.

Ace: "General Arnold, Bill, what happened?"

Bill: "Your Highness, I think I know why the potion made by this potion recipe is qualified to be called a legendary potion. This potion is aimed at..."

General Arnold: "It's about the soul."

Ace: "What? How come you even know about General Arnold?"

General Arnold: "Your Highness, you are not completely from the world of the dead, so you don't feel it. When the blood of His Royal Highness Norn merged with the original potion, the fire of my soul was sensed, and it attracted me. Power, attracting me to get it. Your Highness, I seem to see the way after the Lich."

Ace was shocked, the lich is equivalent to the holy rank of human beings, is there any other way after the holy rank?

Ace finally understands the value of Bill's magic potion recipe. The Magic Island may not know it, so the people they sent to capture Bill before were all shrimp soldiers and crab generals.If Magic Island knew that this potion was for the soul, they would do anything to get it back.

You know, the soul is the least explored area of ​​human beings so far.After the holy rank, the wounds on the Juggernaut can be healed automatically. Before the holy rank, many magic potions can reduce major injuries and make minor injuries disappear. Only souls, whether human beings or undead creatures, can take them all. He was helpless.For undead creatures, when the fire of the soul is extinguished, they are completely dead.

Carl Caesar was wounded by Daniel many years ago. Even the Caesar Chamber of Commerce was so rich that they couldn't find a cure for him.

Ace asked: "Then, is this potion finished?"

Bill finally came to his senses from the shock just now, and he said, "Your Highness, no. The blood of the three beasts must be the blood of three kinds of monsters, and the blood of His Royal Highness Norn can be used, so the other two kinds of blood should come from tenth-level monsters or The cub of a tenth-level monster."

Ace murmured, "This is not good."

Generally, the materials used to make magic potions have a shelf life, and it is best not to exceed ten years for blood.Even if they were searching at various auctions in the two empires, it was difficult to find ones that met the requirements, unless it was on the magic island, where there should be ones.

Bill's eyes moved back to the magic potion, his eyes were mixed with shock and joy, and several emotions were mixed together, which was extremely complicated.

Bill didn't even notice that General Ace and Arnold left the stone house.

General Arnold: "Your Highness, if you are in a hurry, you can take Bill's soul crystal to the Warcraft Forest. There is a chance to get the blood of a tenth-level monster."

Ace hesitated, "Bill isn't a lich yet, is he?"

General Arnold: "Your Highness only needs to go to the outskirts of the monster forest and release Bill. The undead creatures of the ninth level may also get blood from the monsters of the tenth level. Your Highness does not need to worry about Bill, even if Bill was shot by the tenth-level monster. He I've died once, and I won't die again."

Ace: ...

Ace: "I will entrust the Caesar Chamber of Commerce to see if there is any fresh blood of tenth-level monsters in the auction. In the past two days, I am in the port of Nice, and I will also inquire about the news of tenth-level monsters. Much more."

General Arnold bowed slightly, watching Ace return to the present world.

Because the two places where the gate of the dead world connects the living world and the dead world are fixed, Ace has to return to the real world through the passage he just entered the dead world.