Chapter 618 15. The Skeleton Duke
Annan and Lemon picked some wild flowers around and placed them in front of the crooked tombstone.
Looking up, he found that Lemon's body was still stained with blood, and said helplessly: "Don't put everything into your body, this is not good, spit it out quickly."
Annan Dai Keep going with lemon. It seemed that he had done something good or was accompanied by Lemon. His steps became much lighter, and the forest environment could no longer affect his psychology.
Dusk is approaching, and the clouds on the horizon turn the forest into the crimson princess’ favorite color.
The forest was gradually darkening. If the Fire Elemental could still travel at night - then Annan thought that what the Fire Elemental would get would be a burning forest.
He had to find a place to stay before dark.
Annan remembered that Da De said that the hollows of some big trees are natural shelters. He asked the water elemental to climb to the tree crown, find the largest tree, and then go there.
Before the darkness gradually blurred the vision, Annan and Lemon came to the shelter it was looking for - a banyan tree nearly two meters in diameter. Unique aerial roots hang down naturally along the trunk and branches, like a female ghost with her head hanging down, and her torso is hollowed out into a dark abdominal cavity.
Lemon walked around near the banyan tree. It was very clean here.
Annan got into the tree hole with confidence. The place was quite spacious, barely able to squeeze in himself and the water element, and there was no smell or feces.
The last afterglow was about to disappear on the horizon. Annan shrank into the tree hole and let the lemon block the entrance.
This is a wild place and there is nothing edible to be found, but it doesn’t matter, Annan knows how to make use of everything around him.
“I’m thirsty.”
Lemon thoughtfully brought a ball of water to Annan’s mouth.
Then Annan opened the portal, and the person staying at the portal today was Ingrid. He first took out a magic lamp, and then asked the kitchen of the city lord's palace to simply prepare a barbecue, vegetable platter, roasted matsutake mushrooms, and creamy pine nut soup.
“Do you need a bed?”
“We can’t fit it here, but bring me a blanket.”
Ingrid got the blanket and Annan spread it on it In the tree hole, I continued to think about what else I need for wild camping.
The feces of beasts. Annan remembered that dragon dung would frighten all beasts and most magical creatures. The dragon dung from the three little ones probably wouldn't work, but Ilimoyas's should be fine... forget it.
Annan did not want to tarnish the beautiful image of Elimoyas in his heart.
"Annan Annan Annan~"
A familiar trembling sound sounded. Annan saw Lily appear at the corner, jumped into the portal, climbed onto Annan's lap and rubbed it with her tail.
"Silly Cat and Little Spider didn't cause any trouble, did they?" Annan scratched Lily's raised head.
"They fight all the time. The cat tells them not to fight."
"Praise Lily." Annan patted it, picked up Lily and handed it to the portal. "There is some danger here. Let Lily stay in Liberty City."
"Danger? Want the Guards "Sent me to help you?"
"I'm just looking for people, not to start a war..."
Annan refused without thinking. What's the risk of bringing a group of soldiers? story.
After dinner, Annan dimmed the light of the magic lamp to the lowest level, looked into the dark forest for a while, sat on the blanket and began to meditate.
Lemon squatted at the entrance of the tree hole, keeping vigil for Annan.
The cold pale moonlight shines on the forest, forming dapples that are completely opposite to the sunlight. Among them, some obscure sights emerged from the shadows that were not illuminated by the moon, quietly approaching the vaguely bright tree hole...
At this time, an unknown shadow spread from the distance. Wherever he passed, the obscure existences were like frightened beasts, fleeing one after another.
The shadow extends under the moonlight, forming a black ring around the banyan tree...
In the cave of the banyan tree, hiding behind the lemon, Annan, holding the amulet, thought that you could escape. After a calamity, continue meditating.
...
In the early morning, Annan woke up and crawled out of the warm tree hole, stretched his body, and happened to look at a squirrel squatting on a tree branch. Its down was covered with dew, as if it had been there all night.
"Give it back to you, let's leave now."
Annan left the blanket to the squirrel as a night fee, and asked Lemon to hold the crystal skull while he carried it Magic lamp, keep on your way.
It was a wise decision for him not to leave the magic lamp in the tree hole... Before noon, the sky became gloomy and the forest was as dark as evening. As he continued to move forward, the shape of the surrounding trees changed.
The greenery has faded, the plants no longer grow, and the dead trees stretch out their twisted branches, like unwilling dead people.
The only sound in this dead forest was Annan's footsteps, so Annan felt warm when he saw a cemetery filled with the aura of the dead.
As soon as Annan and Lemon approached, the stone door of the cemetery opened on both sides, revealing a deep staircase.
"I am..."
"Did Vickery ask you to come here?" A thick echo came from the cemetery.
"If the 'Vickley' you are talking about is the assistant."
"You don't know it?"
"I am the vampire messenger, here to give you Send a message, it asked me to come here to find you."
"How can it make a messenger come to me?" The voice asked itself: "But humans are indeed easier to come than them."
Annan knew it.
The Skeleton Assistant is not the Crimson Princess who likes to read romance novels, so how could he trust himself when he sees him?
"Come in, you will be discovered by them if you stay outside."
"Them?"
"I guess you have seen some weird things here..."< br>
Annan thought of the wooden house in the forest, and of the peeping last night, and then looking back... I wonder if it was an illusion, but that sense of peeping resurfaced again.
Annan and Lemon walked into the cemetery, and the stone door closed again after they entered.
After raising the magic lamp and passing through a long passage, Annan saw the Duke of Skeleton:
Its skeleton was tall and majestic, and it was dressed in a gorgeous aristocratic dress inlaid with gold wire and gems, as if it were a prince from Nobles of the ancient kingdom. The blue soul fire burned in its eyes, making Annan feel a wise temperament.
It is holding the materials for drawing the magic circle and standing in front of an unfinished magic circle. A knowledgeable mage will recognize the activation method, characteristics and uses of this magic circle.
"How did you meet Vickery?"
"I passed three tests and entered the necropolis"
"Oh?"
The Skeleton Duke continued to draw Magic Circle, without raising his head, asked: "How did you answer?"
"The first question I answered was 'The Etiquette Book of the Tatooine Empire, the Independence History of the Principality of Montabul Locke,' Ruikan The Wisdom Sutra of Your Kingdom'"
"Are you from Middle-earth?"
"As expected of the learned Duke of Skeletons."
"Where are the remaining two?"
"I will answer the second one' The thing with four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening is the thing with four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening' The third one I answered 'It's me'."
The Skeleton Duke. Raising his head, the soul fire became brighter.
"A human warlock..."
(End of this chapter)