Today's Mountains of No Return are darker than usual, and it seems that there is a layer of cold shadow covering the entire forest. The birds were silent, and the beasts were cautiously lying in the nest, afraid to make any movement.

A slender shadow sneaked through the dense forest, getting closer and closer to the distant tower. Not only did the shadow walk silently, but also cleverly avoided the magical detection stones on the bushes and tree trunks. When it was about to enter a circular forest clearing, the shadow stopped. This place is like a fire barrier. From here, the magic detection stones are hidden under the open space and on every tree opposite, and the number of arrangements has suddenly increased, and the detection density is like a fine net. Ordinary humans and animals can walk freely, but weird creatures or people with magical items on them must trigger an alarm unless your visit has been approved by the tower owner.

Shadow sighed and took off his black hood, revealing short silver hair. Although the hair color is like snow, but the face under the hood is not old, and even a bit childish-she looks only sixteen or seventeen years old, with fair skin, delicate features, and a thin figure that seems to be dim at any time The shadows of the trees merge into one.

The owner of the tower should have not noticed her yet, even if the person observed the magic fluctuations nearby, he would not notice her at the moment. There were traces of spellcasting everywhere in the forest, and her behavior was completely covered up. In the outer forest, she cleverly avoided all the detection stones, but if she wanted to go through the clearing and go deeper, she would definitely trigger an alarm. She can no longer move forward.

"what are you doing?"

Suddenly hearing this sentence, the girl was startled. She fell on a dead branch, and the sound of a few **** not far away.

"Master!" After seeing the visitor, the girl immediately adjusted her posture and changed to kneeling on one knee.

In the shadow of the trees obliquely behind her stood the Skeleton Lord. He faded away from the human appearance and returned to a skull face covered with black scales. The black horns were bent on top of his head, the red flames in his eye sockets flickered slowly, and the black mist coiled around him like a shield...the only thing What’s uncoordinated is that changing the shape does not change the clothes. In this shape, he is taller and stronger than the human body, so now his ankles and wrists are exposed. The new clothes are wrapped in the skin. After the tights, some places on the pants even slightly opened the thread.

"Master! Are you hurt?" The girl raised her head and asked anxiously, "It looks like...your standing posture is a little..."

"I didn't get hurt. It's just that the boots didn't fit well, and they were uncomfortably worn." The Bone Maharaja moved her fingers to signal her to get up.

The girl stared at his boots, frowned and stood up slowly. The boots are made of nappa leather. The tops of the boots are inlaid with a ring of emeralds covered with gold. The buckles are covered with gold thread. The tips of the boots are also covered with metal foil. Even if the thin dark lines are pressed on them, they are still shiny. Can learn people.

"Does it look good?" The Bones Maharaja asked.

The girl realized that her gaze was too rude, and hurriedly lowered her head to apologize. But the maharaja did not want to apologize: "I am asking you something. Does it look good?"

"Uh, it looks good..."

The flames in the eyes of the monarch flashed brightly, and the girl knew that this meant he was satisfied with the answer. He stretched out his hand to the girl, and the girl approached, got down on one knee again, and knelt to kiss the back of his hand.

"Augilia, when did you wake up?" Bone Maharaja asked.

The girl named Augilia replied: "Just a few days ago. I know, this means you are free again!"

"Are Siegfried and Odette with you?"

"No, I haven't seen them yet," Augilia said. "During the time you were trapped in another world, our souls were also sleeping in the mortal world... Before we awake, we don't know who we are, no Knowing what kind of power I have, even after waking up, I can't recall everything right away... I think, maybe Siegfried and Odette are still ignorant and haven't fully awakened."

The Bone Maharaja nodded: "Well. You always pay attention to their news. Next, I think you should know what I want to do..."

"You want to return to God's Domain..."

"Yes, I want to find the black lake." The skeleton of the prince's body slowly floated, his eyes crossed the tree canopy, looking at the twilight gleam at the end of the forest, "My father's realm, my mother's grave... And everything that should belong to me."

Augilia lowered her head, her eyes burning with excitement: "Wait for you to find all this...Master, then what is your plan?"

"I haven't done the first step, just don't worry about'then'." The Bones Maharaja floated down and leaned back on the tree. After returning to his original form, his feet have also become bigger, his boots are so that he can only curl his toes, "I have many plans for this world... many, many. I have to make up for the lost time and enjoy the happiness that I should have. …In this process, I don’t want to be out of line, let alone be disturbed by your recklessness."

Augustia raised her head, and the Bone Maharaja raised her finger to the tower: "You should know where it is."

"Yes, Master. That is the tower of the Necromancer Burris. After sensing your location, I deliberately collected all kinds of information about this wizard."

"Augilia, remember, you must never approach that tower, you must not harm Burris and its followers, let alone show up in front of them. In short, you must try to hide yourself from him. This is me. An order for you."

The Bone Maharaja's tone was not very ferocious, but his words were indisputable majesty. For a living entity like Augustia, the majesty's solemn command is like the mantra of the law, which has absolute restraint on them.

"I have taken it to heart." The girl answered with her head down.

After waiting for two or three seconds, Bone Maharaja tilted his head: "Aren't you wondering why this is?"

"...Not curious."

The prince answered without asking: "Burris is my important ally, and I respect him very much. There is no need to let him know about things that have nothing to do with him, it will only make him worry. More importantly, that tower is My biggest source of pleasure and income at the moment, I want to ensure that this stable and comfortable mutually beneficial relationship does not appear to crack."

"I see." Augilia nodded again.

"So, if you encounter strange elves or humans next time, don't attack them actively, unless you deliberately want to make me angry."

Augilia frowned aggrievedly: "I remembered your order. But Master, please allow me to plead that I did not take the initiative to attack the elf, he shot me first."

"How did you meet him?"

"I was directly face to face with him on the road. He thought I was a traveling mage and thought I was going back to the tower of Burris. He stopped me from letting me leave. He also used spells to scare me and asked me something about the mage Burris. Things...but I don’t know Burris, and I don’t quite understand what he wants to ask. I want to leave. He actually wants to put hold on me, so I just cast a spell to fight back... But don’t worry, I’ve been blindfolded. Veil, he didn't see how I looked."

"I see, you really don't blame you for this." The Bones Maharaja chuckled. He had sent the black pine to the Holly Village just now. He quietly climbed up to the second floor of a tavern and threw the black pine into a guest room. The black pine groaned dazedly, seeming to be about to wake up, so the bone maharaja found a bottle of fennel vermouth and poured the black pine about half an ale glass with a dispenser. The black pine immediately poured He went back to bed, slept with teeth and claws, and said nonsense such as "His son's name is Kreve", "The Ghost King appeared five hundred years ago", "Necromancer is riding a dark hippo" before going deep into sleep.

"Next time you encounter a similar situation, you have to evacuate in time and don't fight back in anger," the Bone Maharaja added. "In short, don't let Burris be aware of your presence, let alone hurt anyone related to him. If You see Siegfried and Odette, and convey my order to them."

"I remembered. But... what if the opponent is powerful and I really have to fight?"

"Even if you have to do it, you must aim to get away and don't beat the opponent to death."

After hearing this, the girl's face showed a trace of trepidation: "What...Is that elf killed by me?"

"He is almost dying, but he has been saved again." The Bone Maharaja touched the girl's hair like a child, "Augilia, the lives you can touch now are nothing but humans, elves, and dwarves. , Goblins, orcs... At most, there are rock giants and the like. These things are very fragile. Don't use the energy of slaughtering the devil's army to deal with them. Okay, you leave first, leave the mountains of no return, look for Siegfried and Odette, also help me find the entrance to the Black Lake."

"Yes, Master. Please feel free to call us if necessary."

With a burst of light smoke, the girl's figure and voice disappeared into the mist.

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From this day on, the non-returning mountains seemed to have temporarily restored calm.

After Burris woke up, his body recovered as usual. The wizard tower and nearby magic protection were intact. The Bone Maharaja lost the ball with three dogs in the open space in front of the tower, and Black Pine did not run back from Holly Village.

Burris checked the detection stones in various areas of the forest. The detection stones in the core area were all normal, while some stones in the outer forest recorded abnormal fluctuations. Even so, he couldn't judge what attacked the black pine. In fact, it was the fastest to ask the black pine himself, but Burris didn't want to contact him too much, and he was really in a dilemma.

He and the people in Holly Village heard that Black Pine drank a large glass of fennel absinthe in the Willow Tavern and talked nonsense after sleeping for a day and a night. He claimed to have been attacked, but he was completely intact and ate a lot in the morning. He also said that he saw a black-armored knight riding a hippo skeleton, a jungle giant with three heads and six eyes, and white hair that killed all creatures on the mountain. The banshee, the seven-colored dragon that turned into fireworks in the sky... even he himself couldn't be sure whether these were hallucinations seen by drunken people. After he left dingy, the owner of the Willow Tavern always thought that the elf was a poet who played the Necromancer in the drama.

Burris always felt a bit sorry for Black Pine. He silently decided that he could calmly compensate for the hapless apprentice when he had the opportunity in the future. In short, Burris didn't mention the attack anymore, because he already had a preliminary answer in his mind—no matter who the enemy was or what creatures, it was mostly inseparable from the Bone Maharajah.

Because... Lot was too calm. When Burris ponders this matter, Lot will either divert the subject or use some untenable inferences to comfort Burris. His conclusion is: this matter is not important, so don’t spend the whole day. Thinking about it, don't you still want to study my magic immunity? let us start.

Klot is not the type who sits on the sidelines and calms things down. Imagine a person who even watched dog fights happily, why would he not be interested in an attack on an elf?

Once thought of this, Burris stopped the investigation instead. Judging from Lot's behavior, he took the initiative to go out on patrol to deal with the hidden attacker. Regardless of the current situation of the attacker, it is clear that this attack was not instigated by Lot, otherwise, why should Lot help save Black Pine again?

The attack on Black Pine was probably just an accident. For the Bone Maharajah, this incident is causing him trouble, and I am afraid he does not want similar things to happen again.

As for who the attacker was and what the Bones Maharaja wanted to hide, Burris had no way of knowing, and he didn't want to ask for it for the time being. Since Lott didn't want him to know at all, he wouldn't get the correct answer anyway.

When I want to say it, I will tell you everything. When I don't want to say it, you can't hear a serious sentence... The Bone Maharaja has such a character, and it is like this now, I am afraid it was also more than sixty years ago. It's just that Burris was young and downhearted, and he hasn't noticed the character of the Skeleton King.

Back then, the Bone Maharaja did not state his identity when he first appeared, but called himself the "God of Death". Although Burris was young at that time, he was also a qualified apprentice of the mage anyway. He knew that this man was not telling the truth, "Reaper" was just an image in a fairy tale. No matter how he questioned it, the person who claimed to be the "Reaper" refused to reveal the slightest truth... Until the last day of their relationship, the Bone Maharaja suddenly revealed his identity and even provided Burris with clues to search for relevant documents. ...

Whenever recalling these, Burris could not help but sigh. If they didn't meet in those seven days, then... maybe he would have died when he was twenty.

Burris could not forget the seven days when he was young. The tower burning in the wind and snow, the cold wind that almost cuts the skin, the **** rime forest, and the frozen lake that seems to be invisible...

If he hadn't met the man who claimed to be the "God of Death", he would never have the current achievements. Maybe he will turn into a ghost in the ice and snow, hovering forever in pain and cold.