Chapter 616 13. The Undead's Commission
"You passed, narcissistic human being."
If the book spirit didn't say so, Annan would still be proud for a while.
The lich staying here took the initiative to strike up a conversation: "I am Valar."
"Annan." Annan always responded kindly to the existence of goodwill.
They left the third tomb together and walked along the stairs to the depths of the Corruption.
"Do you know where this is?" Annan asked.
"You don't know?"
"I'm just here to deliver a message."
The Lich's eyes flashed with soul fire: "The Skeleton Duke is recruiting smart undead. So here I am.”
Standing on the last step, a vast tomb hall appeared in front of me.
As they appeared, a maggot as fat as a lamb squirmed.
"Welcome to the gathering of genius undead!" The maggot's exaggerated chanting tone reminded Annan of the bard, and its attention was focused on Annan, "But why are you not an undead?"
"I am the vampire messenger, here to deliver a message to the Skeleton Duke."
Maggot looked at Annan a few times: "Oh, come with me. As for you, noble lich, you have to fight with other undead Carnival together, or attending a lich party?"
"Which one is interesting?"
"Of course it is the carnival of the undead. Liches are all a group of mutes who can only read in silence!"
The lich is not angry at all, and even agrees with it deeply. : "I choose the former. Annan, see you next time."
"Goodbye."
Annan watched the lich in the mage's robe walking in the direction where the maggots were pointing.
Liches, dead spellcasters are resurrected for some reasons, or strictly speaking, reborn - some are really resurrected as undead, and some are just dead bodies with new consciousnesses, but they just happen to have all the memories of this body.
But the two are hard to distinguish, even by themselves.
Withdrawing his gaze, Annan followed the squirming maggots.
The braziers inserted throughout the hall were blooming with bright flames. Undead creatures were wandering in the street-like tomb hall, but some were not. For example, Annan saw a vampire wearing a high-collared cloak.
But Annan is neither a vampire nor has any vampire characteristics, so they cannot recognize him.
Across the tomb hall, Maggot led Annan to a gate guarded by skeleton guards.
"This man is the vampire envoy and wants to see the Duke."
They passed the gate smoothly and continued to move deeper along the spiral steps with burning torches.
Annan's attention fell on the bottom of the maggot. Its soft body can fit perfectly into the shape of the stairs. It moves like a water element, but does not leave any traces.
The spiral steps were still going down, but the maggot stopped in front of a stone door opened in the wall and knocked open the door.
A skeleton sitting behind a desk, wearing an old noble dress and holding a quill, looked up.
"Hello, Duke Skeleton..."
The skeleton interrupted Annan: "I am not the Duke, just his assistant. You can tell me."
"I It's the blood envoy... Princess Crimson sent me a letter..."
Annan didn't know how many times he revealed his identity and handed over the parchment letter given to him by Princess Crimson.
The skeleton assistant put the parchment letter on the table, "The Duke of Skeleton is not here, and your companion has been here."
"My companion?" Annan thought of the vampire in the hall.
Crimson Princess didn’t say... Could it be another branch of vampire?
"It seems that you are not in the same group..." said the smart skeleton assistant.
"Really not, are they also for cooperation?" The soul fire in the skeleton assistant's eyes made a gesture of sizing up Annan: "I can't tell you, unless... you are willing to go to the Skeleton Duke."
"You want me to go? A messenger from a foreign race?"
The skeleton assistant sighed: "The undead outside don't know that Duke Skeleton is not in the necropolis. It's not a good idea to let them know. ."
"Tell me first, and then I'll think about it," Annan said.
"Okay." The skeleton assistant seemed not to be afraid of Annan's rejection, "They are just like you, with the cooperation of the big shots behind them."
It seems that not only Princess Crimson wants to join forces with Duke Skeleton, but she is also lagging behind a lot because of two useless messengers... Fortunately, Annan is here.
You have to get ahead of them...
If this can be used to achieve cooperation with the Skeleton Duke, the Crimson Princess will be very happy. And from a human perspective, it would be more beneficial to humanity to allow the relatively mild-mannered Scarlet Princess to have a say.
At least they won’t be raised in captivity and killed like pigs.
"I am willing to try to find Duke Skeleton." Annan thought, "But I hope you can answer a question."
"What?"
"Why me?"
"You... have an aura that makes me feel comfortable." The skeleton assistant hesitated.
“That’s it!” The maggot, who had been silent all this time, echoed, “Following you will make me feel like I’m seeing my parents!”
Is it calling itself a fly?
The skeleton assistant continued: "Not all beings can be trusted by us. You have this quality, so I am willing to believe it."
Annan guessed that his charm became another form in the eyes of the undead... …charm.
"Okay, I will try to do it, where is the Skeleton Duke?"
The Skeleton Assistant said a place: the edge of the Lost Zone.
“Wenwen City?”
"It seems you know." The skeleton assistant opened the drawer and took out a pocket crystal skull and placed it on the table. "It will guide you to find the Duke. Also, please do not approach the Lost City. If you see undead that are different from us, , just stay away from it..."
Annan once again heard the same warning as Dracula's butler.
When he asked what happened in Lost City, the skeleton assistant shook his head and said he didn't know, and even the Duke was investigating.
The maggots brought Annan back to the ground from the big tomb. The screaming banshee in the distance seemed to have discovered him, fluttering and came close to him, lingering around Annan like an elf, always reaching out curiously to touch him. Annan's black hair and earrings.
They stopped following as they approached the withered border area. Annan bid farewell to them and walked towards the forest.
When the surrounding shrubs and weeds turned green again, Annan touched the leaves of the World Tree.
"Are you there?"
"What's the matter?" Tedder responded quickly.
"I encountered a strange thing...I met a girl and a white deer in a forest. She said that she was the consciousness of the forest..."
Annan changed the previous somewhat creepy tone The story is told to Tedder.
"When the carrier carrying consciousness is damaged, consciousness will also dissipate..."
"You mean, she disappeared because the carrier was damaged?"
"Well, there must be something around her. There are beings that are hurting this forest.”
Annan couldn’t help but look back at the area bordering the forest and the kingdom of the dead, because of the undead that invaded this forest?
Ask the Skeleton Duke after you find him.
"I found some books about curses, do you want them now?"
"Let the third group of envoys take them to Liberty City, I can't go back for the time being."
(This chapter End)