The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 220: The first and last betrayal
Without any warning, the ground began to shake and surge.
The group of people who had just disembarked from the treasure ship "Silver" suddenly became serious.
"...Is this place going to collapse?"
Ofhisi was stroking the strings uneasily.
He looked at the female centaur Lucia: "Can you take a look, Lulu?"
"Let me try..."
Lucia tapped her four hooves uneasily and stretched out her white and slender hands forward - her nails were sharp, white and bright, like jade pieces.
As she sorted out something in the void, her expression became more and more solemn.
"Fortunately, it's not going to collapse."
She took a deep breath: "But you still have to be careful..."
At this moment, the second wave of impact swept across.
Like an invisible roar - this time the ground did not move, and the surrounding ancient low stone buildings did not suffer any damage. But they stumbled backward... as if they were pushed hard by something, and their bodies were instantly immersed in the freezing cold.
That is the power of hatred.
Ai Lei's expression changed.
"Sorry!"
She shouted quickly.
Celicia frowned slightly, and just wanted to reach out and grab her, but it was still a step too late——
I saw four iridescent light strips suddenly burst out from behind Ailei - they looked like weird wings, tentacles, or even the tentacles of some indescribable thing.
The moment the light belt emerged, her body was covered by the colorful light flow, and her entire body turned into a huge illusory human form.
A strong curse aura erupted from her body, forming a colorful halo visible to the naked eye. The halo covered her body, forming a twisted figure in the style of Kelaki - like a witch in the enchantment.
Just looking at her made Selicia's head tilt back as if she had been hit hard. Ofishi felt a less intense dizziness.
It is even more obvious for the horse people with extremely strong perception.
She whined and stumbled back, blood spilled from her mouth and nose, and blood soaked in the gaps between her fingernails.
The next moment, the rainbow-colored storm formed by the curse surged wildly, pushing them away instantly.
The huge figure in the style of Kelaqi quickly disappeared before his eyes like a piece of thin origami.
Like the contrails left by jet planes, many rainbow-colored light strips still remain in the sky at twisted angles, illuminating the dim and lightless underground.
"That's..."
Ao Feishi looked at the direction in which Ailei was leaving in shock: "God?"
It’s as shocking as if the furry puppet next to you suddenly turned into a huge lion...
"...I saw it, it was the half body of the God of Bones and Betrayal [Skeleton Lord]."
When Ai Lei revealed her true form, her fate suddenly became clear.
Lucia, a centaur who could look directly into her fate, said with a complex expression: "Do you still remember the story she told before she came here?"
According to the rules of the Silver Troupe, everyone who wants to borrow "silver" to go to their destination must tell a story of their own - that is, why they want to go there. If this story doesn't sound so boring, Only then will they be willing to give each other a ride.
The story Ailei told... was that her father abandoned her without any warning, and Ailei planned to catch up and find out. Only recently did she find out that her father was preparing to go to the destroyed Song Song Principality——
Why was such a cute girl abandoned?
And what if her father had to go to the Principality of Funeral Song, which was almost forgotten by people?
This did make Selicia a little interested.
Her request was to "watch the entire incident until it ends" to make sure that she had not been deceived. As compensation, they can help Ai Lei to a certain extent.
…Looking back now.
Ai Lei’s father, I’m afraid he is the skeleton man...
——The Duke of Bones went to the Principality of Funeral Song, which was very reasonable.
Isn’t it normal for people to go back to their hometown to visit relatives?
"...then what should we do now?"
"Lily" wearing a mask couldn't help but said: "Do you really want to see it?"
Everyone looked at each other.
And the other side.
When the Bone Lord destroyed the statue of the Bone Burying Granny and the tomb behind her.
The surroundings began to vibrate horribly - as if some giant beast was waking up underground, or as if a machine was roaring, and everything around was rumbling and shaking.
The Bone Man, who had just attacked the statue of the Bone Burying Granny, quietly looked up to the sky.
In other words, looking at the rock formations... and the city above them.
“People call my country ‘Mourning Song’ or the country of giants. But how many people still remember its real name?”
The old and deep voice of Mr. Skeleton sounded: "Forgetting... is betrayal."
The roaring around them became more and more intense, even gradually burying the voice of the Bone Man. There's even a loud squeaking sound - like the sound of a huge truck dragging along the ground as it loses its brakes.
But the voice of the Bone Man still came calmly amidst the huge noise.
"Its real name is called [Eternal Life Principality]. But this does not mean that all citizens have eternal life... but that the ruler of the principality is called 'Eternal Life Duke', just like the ancestor of the Duke of Winter, 'Shuangyu' Same as male.
"As I said, giants are a race that looks down on 'life and death'. And this open-mindedness comes from their preparations to reach the 'death that must come'... This 'death that must come' is the philosophy of giants The end point.
"But here is a problem... Ordinary giants can indeed prepare themselves in advance in order to pursue a more peaceful, more complete, and more pure death. Cut off the karma, forget the old feelings, and live in silence, no one, He died anonymously in a corner forgotten by everyone.
"——But, I can't do it."
Skeleton Man's voice was almost drowned in the noise.
Clearly nothing has changed around him - the ground has not caved in, the tombs have not cracked, and the ceilings are all intact. But the surrounding noise is getting louder and louder... There are even sounds of falling and damage.
It was like the sound of huge iron and wooden boxes falling from the sky and cracking or breaking on the ground.
At this time, the voice of the Bone Master gradually became louder.
"Why are we called Yongsheng Gong? Because we, the rulers, have been imprisoned in this pure white heavy armor for generations - passed down from generation to generation, we only have one name. That is [Yongsheng Gong].
“No one knows which generation of Yongsheng I am, and no one knows when the previous generation of Yongsheng died or where he was buried. People don’t care about these...
"They pretended that their grand duke was an immortal person, and everyone was pretending - even though they already knew that there was no such thing as immortality in the world, and mortals could not live forever. Because of this, they did not need to be their successors, I am worried about the continuation of government decrees, the continuation of friendship and forgetting. Everything that needs to be remembered can be delegated to [Prince Yongsheng].
"All deaths worth remembering will be remembered by their Grand Duke; and they can easily forget everything and usher in a free and unburdened death."
The so-called [Eternal Life Duke] is the living tombstone of the Eternal Life Principality.
It records everyone’s fate and relationships...the only [existence] that is not allowed to die or let go. Not a person, but just a certain existence, a symbol,
Skeleton Lord said calmly: "But my compatriots didn't know a thing until they died... Of course, maybe they didn't care about it either.
"That is... the inheritance of [Yongsheng Gong] has ended long ago.
"My rule lasted for more than four hundred years, while the lifespan of a giant is one hundred and fifty years. That's because...in the twenty-fourth year of my rule, I had already transformed myself into an undead. That was the initial betrayal."
The voice of the Bone Man gradually became distant and vague: "For whom are the so-called funeral songs sung for?
"——Yes, funeral songs are sung for me."
Finally ~IndoMTL.com~ the space begins to break.
It's not like glass being broken... but like the germination of seeds or the hatching of chicks.
Something that cannot be seen directly leaks out.
The rainbow-colored, twisted "angel" came from afar and launched an attack on the Skeleton King without hesitation.
A stream of rainbow-colored light emerged from the tip of the "four wings" and focused on the skeleton male like a laser beam.
"——Stop, father!"
Ai Lei's voice with heavy echo sounded, the sharp and vague baby's voice and the sweet girl's voice sounded in the air at the same time.
But the laser beam failed to get close to the Bone Man, and was stopped by something transparent and water-like outside his body.
The moment Ai Lei came into contact with the Bone Man, the surrounding space suddenly boiled.
The twisted brilliance on Ai Lei spread into the surrounding air in an instant.
The tombs turned into houses full of life, and the dim underground world turned into a brilliance like the setting sun. The dust on the ground turned into grass, and giants emerged from among the empty tombs.
It's just that everything is like a painting - fragmented.
"Although you noticed it, it was too late. You were fooled."
Skeleton Lord said calmly: "The meaning of your existence is to be betrayed again...
"This is the last betrayal, Elle."