Skeleton King

Chapter 263

In the distance, there is a faint light of fire, and thick smoke that goes straight up to the sky, which dyes the light blue sky gray.

Seeing such a scene, Ace finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Let’s go back to three days ago——

Ace, Nuoou and the others failed to guard the Golden Lion Juggernaut and fell from the ground.The magic element in the space crack is too unstable, and they fell from a high altitude. In order not to be injured when passing through the space crack, Nuo's Hailan Dou Qi made a protective shield around Ace and him. If it goes well, they can Through space cracks, arrived at a safe place.

But their luck was really bad, and they encountered an elemental storm.

Nou is the Juggernaut, and the elemental storm has far less influence on him than Ace.

After discovering the elemental storm, Nou immediately stood in front of Ace, and the chaotic elements swept them like waves.They are like flat boats on the sea, which may capsize at any time.Another huge wave hit, directly hitting Nou's right wrist holding the Judgment Sword. The power contained in it was too powerful, pushing Nou back a few steps, and his chest was sunken.

Ace could only hug Nou tightly to prevent the elemental storm from breaking them up, and he didn't even know where the sword of judgment was lost.

Fortunately, after the most violent wave elemental storm passed, the chaotic elements gradually calmed down.The grudge on Ace's body has long been exhausted, and when the elements are not violent, he can use some magic intermittently, otherwise he would not be able to persist soberly until the end.

Golden Lion Sword Master...

The staff in Ace's hand is pale in color, with a cold breath, containing power that does not belong to this plane.Ace is determined that the next time he sees the Golden Lion Juggernaut, it's not just as simple as turning him into a lich.

It's a pity that Ace didn't know that the Golden Lion Juggernaut didn't live to wait for him to go back.Although the Golden Lion Sword Master was determined to cooperate with the Lord of the Small Plane, he embarked on a road of no return with an impossible end and a discredited reputation, but he still made some preparations for this, including the possibility that Jacob might treat him The only variable is Norn's desperate pursuit of him.

That's it, he never walked out of that crimson land again.

It was not until three days later that Ace found a safe piece of land and took Nuoou completely out of the scope of the space crack.

This is a low mountainous area. Ace used a detection magic to make sure that there were no powerful creatures nearby, so he led Noou into a relatively dry cave.Now their situation is very bad, Nou is still not awake, Ace checked his wounds, the good news is that those shocks did not hurt his internal organs, but there is also bad news, a large number of magic elements broke the balance of his body, Ace couldn't tell what the consequences of this would be.

Although Ace's top priority now is to determine their coordinates, the strength of the two of them at their peak is the holy rank, and they cannot travel across planes.If they are drifting to other planes now - such strong elemental storms mostly occur between two adjacent planes, theoretically there is no interaction between two planes, it may only happen when the planes are about to perish The emergence of such chaotic elements-this is a very troublesome thing for Ace and Nou.Only when they become existences beyond the holy order, can they find their way back.

However, before Nuoou was awake and able to protect himself, Ace was absolutely worried about him being alone.

Ace can only put other things aside.

However, with the current strength of Ace and Nou, as long as they don't fall to those legendary planes where the creatures become holy when they reach adulthood, survival is not a problem.

only……

Ace doesn't know whether his strength is damaged or the arrangement of magic elements in this plane is different-each plane has its own unique arrangement, like the world and the dead world, the usual mage and necromancer belong to two categories. A system - he meditated for a long time, but the magic power in his body did not recover much.

The sky is dyed with a faint red, which is different from the vitality of the morning sun and the splendor of the sunset. It carries an unknown death silence, which only reminds people of the grayness at the end of life.The air in the cave was also a little cloudy, and there was no wind, and Ace gradually became restless.

The light golden eyelashes fluttered slowly twice, like the wings of a butterfly.

Although Ace was thinking about magic elements, part of his mind was always on Nou, and he noticed it immediately. He held Nou's hand, and Nou subconsciously held him back.Ace said happily, "Nuoou, are you awake?"

The lake-like light blue eyes gradually became brighter, "Yes." After a while, Nuoou replied.

Ace took out a bottle of light golden potion, carefully fed it to Nou, and then began to check Nou's injury.

Nuoou's physical fitness is excellent, and his trauma is not serious for the Juggernaut. Originally, he could heal himself in a few days, but the bad thing is that a lot of chaotic magic elements entered during the elemental storm inside him.And because of the incident in the previous imperial capital, Nuoou's soul fire was suppressed, like a weak shell that was easily broken by external forces.

It is not a trivial matter to be related to the soul. Ace hesitated for a moment, and then mobilized the remaining magic power of his body to detect Nou's soul fire. The black shackles outside the soul fire had disappeared, and they were mixed with colorful magic elements. Together, it's like dozens of bundles of yarn of different colors intertwined.

Even when Ace was at full strength, he was cautious about matters related to the soul, not to mention that the injured person was Nou.

He didn't dare to act rashly at all.

Just as Nuo Ou felt his body was getting stronger, he sat up and tried to mobilize his fighting spirit, but due to the environment of the plane, he had little effect.

Ace and Nou sat opposite each other.

When Nou opened his eyes again, he noticed that Ace was frowning and looked distressed.Although he doesn't always study the soul like a necromancer, but when he reaches the holy rank, everyone wants to go further, and they will do some research on the matter of the soul. Naturally, he knows that his current situation is not good.

Nou looked calm, looking at Ace's blue eyes with tenderness, he reached out and stroked Ace's hair, and said, "I'm fine."

Ace rolled his eyes, and said angrily, "It's not that you're fine just because you say you're fine." But being soothed in this way, his tense mind finally relaxed a bit.

Ace thought for a while, then took out a bottle of Star Potion and handed it to Nuoou.

Nuo Ou took it curiously, the light golden potion was filled with many small golden beads, full of vitality, and the smell contained in it was very familiar, as if Ace had given him to drink it when he just woke up.

"This is specifically for the soul." Ace found out that Nou's soul was abnormal before, and Ace searched a lot of Skeleton King's magic handbooks, wondering if there was a similar illness before, so that he could prescribe the right medicine.But he hasn’t come to a result yet, and things have changed here—such a delicate thing in the soul, a slight miss, a thousand miles away—Ace doesn’t rely on the Skeleton King’s magic handwriting anymore, he just Can observe carefully, and then slowly find a way.

Under Ace's concerned eyes, Nou slowly took the Star Potion.After a while, he felt a warm breath emanating from his heart, and the feeling of weakness in his body disappeared a lot.

Ace felt that the Star Potion was useful to Nuoou, so he planned to take another bottle in a few days.

Legendary potions like Star Potion are not available at ordinary holy ranks. If it weren't for the fact that Ace didn't have a lot of them in stock, he would now be tempted to give it to Nuoou as water.

At this moment, Ace felt sincerely sad about Bill's absence, and also regretted that he didn't borrow some blood from Norn when he saw Norn earlier.

But if Norn knew what Ace was thinking now, he would probably scratch his paw at him.

After Nuo'ou recovered a bit, they left the cave and checked around.The first thing that caught their attention was the blue smoke in the distance. If there is smoke, there must be fire, and there may be intelligent creatures.

All I could see was a thick gray smoke, which also carried an indescribable pungent smell of spices, and scattered in all directions. On a piece of empty red land, there were many strange-shaped stone statues with many brown skins. People with runes engraved on their bodies knelt down and prayed to the stone statue. There was a huge bonfire in the middle of the stone statue, and many people sat cross-legged on the edge of the bonfire. With the sound of their blessings, the fire became more and more prosperous. The sky is also getting grayer.

Both Ace and Nou have excellent eyesight. Seeing this scene, they all exhaled deeply.

It is a native of the small plane.

In other words, they are still in the small plane.Because of the special historical background of the small plane, there is a high probability that these modified humanoid weapons are unique in countless planes, not to mention the ceremony they are performing—since Ace and Noou came to the small plane, they will be very different from the small plane. There must be a certain degree of understanding, knowing that this is the native of the small plane praying for the dead.

Although it is not difficult for them to survive in other planes, after wandering for hundreds of years, even if some of them break through the holy rank, when they return to the Pansy Empire, most of the people they know have passed away, and everything is in vain. People are wrong.

But in the small plane, they at least know how to go back.

"Let's go." Ace looked at it for a while, then turned and left with Nuoou.

Ace and Nou took the cave as the core, avoided the place where the aborigines live in the small plane, and tried their best to explore the surrounding area.The small plane is very desolate, except for the "astrological puppets" brought in by the two great empires and the magic island, there is no sign of other creatures at all. "Astrology puppets" do not need food to supplement energy, so there is no need for farming.

In order to deal with the elemental storm, Ace and Nou exhausted all their grudges.Due to the thin magical elements in the small plane, especially where they are now, it will take at least half a year for Nuoou to restore the strength of the Juggernaut.

Ace is even worse. A mage has higher requirements for magic elements than a swordsman. The magic power he can recover every day is only a little bit, and he can use a small level 1 spell for a whole day, like a small flame.

Ace thought bitterly, at least they don't need bricks to make fire.

Aside from the small-plane indigenous settlements, Ace and Nou walked to the other side for another two days, but they found nothing except some yellow weeds in the cracks of the ground, broken bark, and some white mushrooms under the stones.

So far, Ace and Nou have not aligned their location with the map of the small plane.It may be that the landform here has undergone tremendous changes in recent years, or it may be that the cracks in space have sent them to places where the forces of the magic island have not yet reached. In Ace's view, the latter may be far greater than the former.

To make matters worse, Ace soon discovered that the previous injury had left Nou with considerable sequelae.

……

On their way back, Nuo Ou had a new question, "The people in the small plane are astrological puppets made by the astrologer at the time, so have all of them lived for thousands of years? Or are they also conceived here?" If they have children, their children will also be born with runes?" It can't be that their parents will engrave these things on their children, right?

"The astrology puppets are humanoid weapons with souls. In fact, they have broken away from the human category. In the world of magic, they can no longer be called human beings." Ace replied: "'Astrology puppets' are not It is possible to conceive offspring and have offspring. There is no way for non-living things to create life. Creating life out of thin air is something that no existence beyond the holy order can do."

Because of this, the people living here and all the small planes have indeed lived for thousands of years.

The time they have experienced is even longer than the history of the Pansy Empire and the Finger Empire.

But this does not mean that they have "lived" for thousands of years.Even Ace doesn't know whether a life form like the astrological puppet can still be considered alive?Just like after human beings die, their souls go to the dead world, they still exist, but they cannot be said to be alive.

Noou thought of the prayer they saw the day before yesterday, the prayer for the dead.

Nuo Ou said: "But if the 'Astrology Puppet' is also mortal, can there still be so many people living in the small plane?"

How many original "Astrological Puppets" should there be?

Magic Island has been studying the "Astrology Puppet" for hundreds of years.

Ever since Ace knew about the little plane, he has been learning about it.

Ace quickly answered Nou's question, "That's not a prayer for the dead. The most special thing about the 'Astrology Puppets' is that they have souls. Puppets don't need to rest, but souls must rest. After a After a long journey, they will fall into a deep sleep, and then wake up again some day in the future. They are praying for their own kind who fell into sleep."

Necromancers are probably the group that studies the soul the most besides astrologers. "Astrologers are different from magicians and swordsmen. They study the astrology and spy on the secrets of the sky. Every divination will cause irreversible damage to their souls. Wait until they die , their souls will not be able to go to the dead world, and they will usher in eternal darkness. There is also a saying that the original astrological puppet was a research conducted by astrologers in order to obtain eternal life."

When many people decide to become astrologers, they don’t understand this truth—they see the future destiny in advance, avoid risks early, and grab wealth. At the same time, they will lose the original gift of life to them.Therefore, the more powerful astrologers are, the more eccentric they are, and the less willing they are to perform divination.

The research of the astrological puppets is also different from their expectations.

Although astrological puppets can retain their will as humans, they will lose all senses such as vision, taste, smell, and pain. They will become more mechanical and numb, and even pain will become a very luxurious thing.Most people will not make it through, and after a long journey, they just look forward to a real long sleep.

Ace was still thinking about the astrology puppet.He can be sure that the aborigines of the small plane have undergone changes that they don't know about in the past thousand years, but he still doesn't know what the changes are like.

At this moment, Nuoou suddenly grasped his arm firmly, and stared into the distance blankly.

"Nou?" Ace called him.

Noah didn't answer him.

Ace's heart sank heavily.

It was the same last time. Nuoou seemed to have his soul suddenly withdrawn, and he could only act on instinct.He didn't recover until several minutes later, and had no memory of what happened during this period.

really.

After a while, Nuoou put his hand down naturally, and with a smile on his lips, he asked, "What? It stopped suddenly."

Ace couldn't see anything unusual, "It's okay." He silently took Nou's hand, and walked slowly away with him.