Skeleton King

Chapter 265 Youth Sacrifice

After Ace woke up from his meditative state, he took a turn in the cave.

Soon, he found desperately that Nou had disappeared again.

What's worse this time than last time is that Ace doesn't even know how long Nou has been away.

Although Ace hoped that Nou would go to the north of them, where there was endless Gobi, and no creature could survive there for a long time, but there was no danger.

However, Ace has a vague premonition that Nou is going to the local aboriginal village.

Ace didn't think any more, he quickly left the cave.

The night was already deep at this moment, but the black night was contrasted by the very few stars in the sky, and the hills that emerged from the ground seemed to be entrenched monsters. They opened their mouths wide open all the time. Choose people and eat them.

Ace has been here for a few months, and he is very familiar with this place. Not to mention that the night is his eyes, even if he can't see anything, he can find the local aboriginal village very quickly.

Ace jumped over the altar of the natives. At this time, it was very quiet here, and there were no natives praying or singing.They went to the south to explore the most altars, and this is the first time Ace has gone further south.

The villages on the smaller planes are all stone houses.

There are not even trees here, wood can be said to be a luxury, but stones are everywhere, inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

The size of the village is small, and there is a strange building in the middle of the village, a bit like a palace, and a bit like a temple.All the houses in the village are built around it.The whole village is in the shape of a circle, and all the houses are extremely densely packed. When someone unfamiliar suddenly enters the village, it is like entering a maze.

When Ace arrived in the village, except for the bright lights in the center of the village and the crowds of people, the rest of the village was silent.

Not even the most agile cat could be as light as Ace, who blended completely into the night, into the village.

This is undoubtedly the most important building in the village. On the top of the stone steps are eight huge Doric-like columns, on which are carved human beings, unknown beasts and plants.Humans wear complicated and gorgeous dresses, as well as all kinds of exaggerated jewelry. Beasts and plants also appear very aggressive.Ace stuck to the edge of the outermost Doric column and looked into the hall.

The force of the entire village probably gathered here.

Usually, the soldiers patrolling around the village day and night are guarding the side of the hall.

Those who are further inside from them are people with relatively high status in the village - this is easy to tell, the small plane is short of supplies, most people's clothes are very simple, and only relatively well-known people have patterns on their clothes.

However, to Ace's despair, it was Nou who was surrounded by these people.

Nou is different now.

He has wheat-colored skin all over his body, and the runes drawn by Ace based on the formation knowledge in the Skeleton King's magic handbook and the astrological puppets in the astrologer's inheritance given by the owner of the magic island. From a distance, he Apart from his extraordinary temperament, he was not much different from these villagers.But Ace didn't know if these villagers could find that Nou was different from them.

Although the villagers in the hall kept whispering, but Ace's current strength recovery is limited, and he cannot know the content of their chats without using magic to eavesdrop.

Therefore, it is difficult for him to judge Nuoou's current situation.

Ace lurked patiently, and gradually he made new discoveries.

The reason why Nuo Ou stood in the middle of the hall was not because some villagers brought him here, but because the Sword of Judgment attracted him here.The Judgment Sword they lost in the space crack actually fell not far from them, and it was likely picked up by the villagers here, and brought the Judgment Sword back to the village.

Maybe Nuo Ou had a sense of the Judgment Sword before, but he didn't tell Ace about it because he was afraid of danger; maybe even Nuo Ou didn't know that the Judgment Sword was in the village. The feeling in my heart came to me.

No wonder he ran south every time Nuoou lost his soul.

Even now, the pair of blue eyes that were usually beautiful, when he saw Ace, would lose their elegance and reveal endless tenderness, but now, these eyes are so strange to Ace.Nuoou stared blankly at the Sword of Judgment, without the slightest focus in his eyes.

Nuoou has not come out of the state of lost soul.

His illness is getting worse.

Neither this discovery nor Nou's danger is more upsetting to Ace.

At this moment, the situation in the hall changed again.

From the other side of the hall came out a barefooted young man in fine clothes. He was different from other villagers in the village. He had fair skin and two golden anklets on his ankles. If it wasn’t for him, he would have With Qianqian's runes, Ace would suspect that he is not a native of the small plane.

The young man was obviously very respected in the village. Just as he walked out, all the soldiers knelt down to him, and the old men standing in the hall also bowed to him, but he didn't care about it at all, he just focused on it. Staring at Noou in the middle of the hall.

Nuo Ou didn't seem to realize it, he concentrated on observing the sword of judgment in his hand, pouring Hai Lan's fighting spirit into it from time to time, even if the fighting spirit escaped, the people in the hall could not bear it.Every time the villagers saw Nuoou raising his sword, they subconsciously backed away. If the hall was not so empty, they would have to find something to cover themselves.

"Sacrifice." Johannes is the village head of Hongyan Village. He will not disturb the priest when he is free. It's just that this matter is not big or small. It caused a disaster, "We went to the altar with the sword that the priest picked up a few days ago. This adult suddenly appeared and wanted to take the sword away. Fortunately, the sword has the power bestowed by the priest. I asked Little John to take the sword. After returning to the village temple, the adult followed him."

The young priest carefully observed Nou who was practicing sword in the center of the hall, especially the runes on Nou's body. He felt that these runes were quite different from what he used to learn, and only a few of them were familiar to him.

The youth priest did not doubt Nuo's identity.

Although the young priest is the person who has the deepest research on runes in the village, such a small village cannot afford to enshrine too powerful priests. He guesses that he is ignorant and only knows the superficial aspects of the vast runes. runes.

But there is no need to tell the people in the village these words.

The young priest nodded towards Johannes.

Seeing that the priest recognized Noou's identity, Johannes' wrinkled face showed two points of joy, "Priest, can we..."

"Johannes! Don't be delusional!" The young priest's voice was not loud, but extremely severe.

He motioned for Johannes to go with him behind the village temple.

The young priest and Johannes left one after another, and the other old villagers in the hall whispered to each other for a while, and gradually dispersed.

Ace hid behind the stone pillar and watched the warriors in the village go outside the village temple, picked up the sword from the ground, and inserted it into the empty scabbard.He silently remembered that the village temple in the village should not be allowed to wear swords.

Ace waited for a while, made sure that there was no one around, and walked quietly into the village temple.

"Nou? Nou?" Ace called Nou softly twice, which chilled his heart, and he didn't get any response.

Nuo's blue eyes stared blankly at Ace. He didn't know why, but he didn't want to see the man in front of him showing such a sad expression. He suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed the flesh on the man's cheek, and pulled hard. for a moment.

Caught off guard, Ace grinned hoarsely in pain, and subconsciously grabbed Nou's wrist to prevent him from pinching it again.Just like last time, Nuoou didn't resist at all this time.

Ace was overjoyed, grabbed Nuo's wrist and wanted to take him away from the village temple.

As long as Nuoou cooperates, it is not impossible for them to leave the village without anyone noticing.

However, as soon as Ace and Nou stepped out of the hall, the eight Doric-like columns in front of the village temple emitted a faint white light. A similar white light was emitted, which turned on and off at the same frequency as these stone pillars.

Only then did Ace discover that the Sword of Judgment had been engraved with runes by the local villagers at some point.It's fine if the sword doesn't leave the village temple, as long as it leaves the village temple, the village temple will send a warning to the village.

Even if it was Nou's sword, Ace couldn't care about it now. He wanted Nou to put down the sword first, and wait until they left the village before talking about anything else.It's a pity that Noou is usually resourceful, mature and calm, but now he is also in a state of deliriousness. He stubbornly holds the sword of judgment and refuses to let it go.

In just a few seconds, Ace lost the opportunity to take Nou away.

The priest who had just walked to the back of the village temple, the village chief Johannes, and the soldiers patrolling the village all found the stone pillars as a warning, and they all rushed over here, and Ace could even hear their messy footsteps.

Ace looked deeply at Nou, and he disappeared into the night again.

"Priest, what happened?" Johannes looked at the young priest worriedly.Soon after, all the patrolling soldiers from the village also arrived, and they stood neatly in front of the village temple.

The young priest carefully looked at the Doric columns in front of the village temple, and then fixed his eyes on Noou for a long time. He thought carefully for a moment, and without answering Johannes, he let the soldiers in the village retreat first.

"Probably he wants to leave the village temple." After a while, the young priest seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be responding to Johannes.

Nuoou stood in front of the village temple for a while, he waited for a while, the good smell just now disappeared completely, and he walked back again.

He still prefers to be here.

He always felt that staying here would bring him unexpected benefits.

On the contrary, that good-smelling guy just now was full of allure, but he was incompatible with his power.Like poppies, sweet and vainly happy, but depraved.

He defined Ace in his heart, put people aside completely, and stopped thinking about it.

"Don't worry." When Nou returned to the hall, the young priest said to Johannes: "He will not leave the village until his companions come to find him. Johannes, you don't want to keep him forever. I have been studying abroad for a long time When I was young, I heard a legend that in addition to using the power of runes, the strongest in our plane can also use magic and fighting spirit like people from other planes."

"Such a strong man, we can't use tricks to keep him in the village." The young priest looked at the place where Nou was in the hall and muttered to himself, "A long time ago, I thought it was just a legend, but I hope this This time is our chance, we can get a further method, which can help Little John unleash his potential and have a strong man belonging to our village."