Skeleton King

Nou: "Is Angelica going hunting with us too?"

Ace: "Angelica wants to play too, doesn't she?"

Angelica was standing next to Nou and Ace, arranging their clothes. After hearing Ace's words, Angelica smiled softly.Nuo Ou looked at Ace suspiciously, "You're just not used to no one taking care of you, are you?"

Nou: "Let's go hunting. Prince Xiben specially asked someone to catch some high-level monsters from the Monster Forest. It's still a little dangerous. Angelica doesn't need to follow us. Bernadette is going to have a picnic by the lake with his wives. far, they can be together."

"I really want to relax Angelica." Even though Ace said that, he agreed to Nou's plan.

Ace and Nou went to the northern suburb of the imperial capital. Prince Nishiben has another courtyard in the northern suburb, and all the invited people will gather there.

It was a sunny day with long white clouds and a little glare from the sun.When Ace and Nuo got off the carriage, they saw Prince Xiben coming out from the gate of the mansion. He was tall and powerful, and he greeted them affectionately and enthusiastically before he approached, "Nou, Ai S.” and gave them a big hug.

Seeing this scene, others cast envious eyes.

Regardless of whether it is for Nuoou or Ace, Prince Xiben treated them equally, asked them if they were used to living in the imperial capital, and introduced the rich and powerful children present to them, "Merlin Harvey. Nou, I heard you went there a few days ago. Lord Harvey’s family, you may already know each other.” He turned to Ace and said, “Ace, Merlin is the grandson of Lord Harvey, and Lord Harvey is the foreign minister of the empire, a pillar of the empire. "

Noel and Merlin Harvey nodded to each other. They had indeed met at the Foreign Minister's house.

"Nuoou must be familiar to you all. This is Ace, Ace Neumann, the heir of Viscount Neumann." Prince Xiben took Ace and Nuoou to face-to-face with most of the powerful children on the field. , Ace also slightly changed his opinion of Prince Nishimoto.

Prince Nishimoto opened the box of good ale and toasted with others, "To His Majesty Ludwig IV! May we have a good harvest!" Then everyone rode horses and led spirit dogs. off off.

On the way to the hunting ground, Nou and Ace discussed the people they met at the Nishimoto Prince's Courtyard.

Ace: "Are these people on the side of Prince Xiben?"

Nou: "Even if it is not, it is more inclined. When the foreign minister talked with me, he also praised Prince Xiben. The appearance of Merlin Harvey also proves this."

Ace: "But, have you made a decision? Will our presence here today send a wrong signal?"

"No. Only insignificant people can be deceived." Nuo Ou said: "In fact, I have just arrived in the imperial capital, and it is natural for me to get closer to Prince Xiben. As for the port of Nice, we did not have the opportunity to get along alone However, this information can be found by anyone who is interested. And after this hunting is over, after we return to the Duke Green’s mansion, I will discuss with the old housekeeper and invite some people to the Duke’s mansion, including Queen Celia’s family.”

Ace lamented, "Another party!"

Nuo Ou: "Emperors are not always like this. It's just that it's the social season recently, and most of the year's banquets are concentrated in these two months. Except for the banquets at home and at the palace at the end of the month, you can't escape. If you don't want to go, You don't have to go."

……

Ace, Nou and others met on a grass field.This piece of grass is huge and the grass is lush and green. Under the sunlight, the forest in the distance seems to be covered with a layer of light veil.

Ace has excellent eyesight. He can see two teams of knights at the edge of the forest. The two teams of knights are guarding carefully around the three carriages. On the carriages are huge cages, each of which contains large monsters.

The magic aura on these monsters is very chaotic, but even if Ace is far away from them, Ace can feel the fierce aura on them.These three monsters are very powerful, at least level six monsters.

Not to mention Ace, Nou couldn't help frowning when he saw these monsters.Although most of the rich and powerful children have passed the assessment of the Knights, but when the Knights are assessed, many people are at the peak of their strength.

To borrow David Richter's words from a long time ago, "If I pass the examination of the Knights, I don't want to practice anymore in my life."

Not only David, but many swordsmen who were born as civilians also set becoming a knight as their lifelong goal. When the goal was achieved, they seemed to be relieved and had no other motivation.Not to mention the nobles, how many people are willing to return to the boring and hard life in the training camp of the Knights after they get used to the luxury and luxury of the imperial capital and enjoy a free and luxurious life for two years.

They usually sweat on the training ground, but it is just to maintain a healthy figure and attract the attention of the ladies.

Nobles are born noble, and their power makes it easy for them to have the allegiance of powerful swordsmen.Under such circumstances, how many people can persist in cultivation?Most of the heaven's favored ones around Prince Xiben only have the strength of level four.

On the contrary, Nuoou, he is one of the youngest in this group of people, but his strength is among the top few.

Against the sixth-level monsters, Nuoou can only draw evenly, and most of the others want to give the monsters some snacks.Of course, Prince Xiben will not let his future minister fall here.

Ace saw the knights in the distance carefully opening the cage, and there was a wolf-shaped monster directly huddled in the innermost part of the cage, licking its paws silently, and the knight next to it drove it away with an iron sword, and it just whispered Woo" and stopped moving again.

As for the other side, a big yellow lion jumped out of the cage. Instead of running towards the forest, it tried to bite the neck of the knight who imprisoned him with its foul-smelling teeth, and several knights surrounded him , The knights didn't even draw their swords, they just kept driving it away with their swords with scabbards, trying to let this lion-shaped monster enter the forest, so that Prince Nishimoto and the others could hunt it.

As for the lion-shaped monster, its sharp claws had already been pulled out, and there were two deep bone wounds on its abdomen. The blood left inside had turned black, and it looked like it had been infected for a long time.Its current strength is not one-tenth of its heyday.

The Cavaliers did it on purpose, of course.

In this way, the noble youths have the opportunity to shoot and kill level [-] monsters without worrying too much about their own safety.Thanks to Prince Nishimoto's generosity, a living Level [-] monster is much more valuable than a dead one, not to mention transporting them all the way from the Monster Forest.

Ace was still paying attention to the battle between the lion-shaped monster and the knights, and another phantom flashed in front of his eyes.The last white tiger-shaped monster in the cage galloped out. The whole body of the monster was snow-white, with only two flame-like marks on the back on both sides. It was a very rare flaming tiger.A raging flame tiger is a level nine magical beast when it is an adult, and this level six raging flame tiger is still a cub, and I don't know how it was captured.

The Flaming Tiger is extremely fast, and it is also extremely good at hiding.But at this time, Ace noticed that the phantom was a little out of sync.After careful observation, Ace discovered that there was a trickle of blood on the right hind leg of the Flaming Tiger, and every time it ran, it would involve the wound, which was no less than torture for the Flaming Tiger.

But the Flaming Tiger still persisted in rushing towards the forest, towards its last chance to survive and be free!

It may be that the action of the flame tiger stimulated the other two monsters, and the two monsters also rushed out of the encirclement of the knights.Soon, they disappeared into the forest.

On Ace's side, Prince Xiben was riding on horseback, he raised his sword and shouted to the swordsmen behind him, "Gentlemen, let me see, who will be the hero tonight?! "

"Oh oh oh oh oh!!!" Those nobles who liked to hunt responded to Prince Nishimoto with their swords and shouts.The cry echoed in the sky, a testament to their valor.

The spirit dogs went to the cage to sniff the breath of the three monsters, and then quickly ran into the forest, followed by the noble youths on horseback.Prince Xiben took the lead, but he still did not forget to turn his head and say hello, "Nuoou, come quickly! Don't let those boys snatch away the prey!"

Nou looked back at Ace, they were still on the same horse.

Ace turned over and got off the horse, and handed the arrow basket to Nuoou, "No, you will only get in the way when I go. Besides, I have been to the World of Warcraft Forest a lot before, which doesn't arouse my interest." Nuoen When he was there, Ace often accompanied it to hunt around.

Nuoou didn't persuade, turned around and ran towards the forest.The young man is heroic. He leans on the horse's back, as if blending with the horse, breathing together with the horse. After a while, he catches up with the swordsman at the end of the crane, and slowly disappears in Ace's in sight.

……

The hunt took much longer than Ace imagined. On the first day, only the wolf-shaped monster was killed, and the person who killed the sixth-level monster became the hero of the bonfire party that night.

When the swordsman took out the magic crystal from the monster and presented it to Prince Xiben, all the followers, knights, and nobles around the bonfire sang praises to him in unison.

"Young men who went on an expedition, when you triumphantly returned home, you cut off the horns of the dragon clan, and you took the feathers of the phoenix clan...

You will be rewarded by the king, you will be kissed by a maiden..."

The young man who hunted the sixth-level monster and dedicated the magic crystal to Prince Xiben had never experienced such a scene. He stood there at a loss, his face flushed, as if he was too excited to hunt the monster, and he seemed to be overwhelmed by this moment. The atmosphere is infected.

The young man only felt a great pride in his chest. He pulled out the sword from the scabbard, inserted it into the ground in front of him, and knelt down on one knee towards Prince Xiben, "I will be loyal to Your Highness! I will die!"

The singing never stopped, everyone was smiling, they drank ale and sang loudly.No one cares about the young man's oath at this moment, as if the young man just drank too much, and he also seems to know that all this has long been powerless to stop.

At the end of the hymn, Prince Nishimoto stood up from his seat, cut up the meat of the sixth-level monsters with his own hands, put them into small plates, and asked his subordinates to deliver them to others.The subordinate wanted to help cut the meat, but Prince Xiben refused, and he insisted on doing it himself.

Ace stood far away from the bonfire. He watched the scene and asked Noou, "Would the prince's meat be better?"

Ace waited for a long time, but Nou didn't answer.Ace turned to look at him, and Nuo looked at Prince Xiben by the campfire with a rare serious expression.

Ace: "Did something happen today?"

"No." Nuoou shook his head slowly, and said, "It's just that I have to make some decisions early, before I'm awarded the title."

Ace looked back there too.

Ace didn't look at the person, but stared at the flame. There were countless flame stars flickering in the flame, and the flame stars splashed in all directions, and some of them flew high into the sky, as if they were going to break through the night sky and turn into stars in the sky. stars.

Ace couldn't help but think a lot.