The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 221: I hereby give up the name of [Skeleton Lord]

"You must have never thought that I have never needed you...I have never needed a half body from the beginning."

Mr. Skeleton’s voice was very calm.

It was like an old man chatting with his younger generation, but his words made Ai Lei so frightened.

"Father, don't..."

"All I need is another demigod holding the mark of the 'Betrayed' to serve as a witness to this scene."

The Skeleton King continued to walk forward slowly.

The location of the statue of Grandma was originally used to prevent the burial of bones, but now it is empty.

In an illusory world as abstract as a witch's barrier, many graves appeared in the open space in front of the skeleton. Each tomb is covered with a crown.

When the skeletons stepped on them, all these tombs collapsed and turned into bottomless pits.

There is nothing in it.

And all the other "houses", which were the original "graves" of the giants, also collapsed one after another.

All the tombs in the entire Sandsong Principality collapsed.

"I never realized before... Burial is forgetting, and forgetting is betrayal. And the tombstone is the last memory of the deceased.

"It is my only weakness, the bridge between the living and the dead...

"——But if it is destroyed by me, then it is the most important 'beginning'."

From the very beginning, Lord Skeleton was more than just a "betrayer".

But why is he missing the "betrayed" side?

It's easy.

Because people had already built a tomb for him before burying him.

"Our tombs are all sealed, do you know what this means?"

The Skeleton Lord said slowly: "Supernormal ones bury ordinary people, priests bury believers. Elders bury children, husbands bury wives, sages bury apprentices, and the curse is passed down from generation to generation. And I am the eldest and greatest among them. Holy One...No one can bury me.

"I buried everyone, and in the end I was the only one left. No one knows where my despair lies - poison cannot kill me."

No matter how poisonous the poison is, it cannot kill [Eternal Life Duke].

The poet has said that the country of giants inherits the curse of immortality.

But it was not a curse, but a grand drama in which everyone participated.

——Yes.

Because everyone doesn't know... Duke Bones can't kill him at all. Their beloved Eternal Lord has long since become an immortal soul.

Of course.

The Skeleton Lord became a god...but this was not because of his betrayal at the time of burial, but because of his betrayal earlier - three hundred years ago.

In order to fight against the "tide of death" in the south, the Eternal Principality fought the undead for five hundred years and completely wiped out the undead. They will commit suicide when the great barrier collapses, just to prevent themselves from turning into undead...

However, no one knew that their Grand Duke was an undead from the very beginning.

——All their efforts, all their sacrifices, all their decisions... are doomed to fail.

"I didn't do anything. I didn't propose anything. I didn't object to anything. Because this is not something I can object to. I can't even make it public that I am an undead."

Skeleton Lord said slowly: "Because [Eternal Life Lord] has been just a tombstone from the very beginning. He is the tombstone of all those who are about to die but not dead, and it is the ending for all those who have given up everything and gone to the underworld. Just symbols, totems and tools.

"They decided everything on their own, while I quietly watched the country collapse... everything died. There is no longer any life in the noisy country, and those buried under the earth, Just like their ancestors...they were giants who went to death peacefully.

"——I am the only one left."

The undead will not be killed by gray fog from the very beginning.

He was left alone.

Is that hatred?

Neither.

The eternal blood should be cut off from 'I', and I will become the only tombstone in the future - this is the sacrifice and decision made by the [Eternal Lord] back then.

That is not revenge or betrayal.

It is the inevitable [answer] caused by the deception four hundred years ago.

When Duke Yongsheng decided to turn into a skeleton four hundred years ago to end the ridiculous and cyclical drama, everything was doomed.

The betrayal happened four hundred years ago.

And his experience of being betrayed lasted even longer. As early as when this "tradition" of the Eternal Principality took shape.

The clown-like clan that has the blood of "immortality" and wears masks throughout their lives...the rulers who have been deprived of the power of "death" from the very beginning. For the giant who yearns for "certain death", this is the most cruel punishment - no rest until death.

However, there must be one person who remembers the death of everyone in order to maintain orderly rule, maintain relationships between people, and maintain this crumbling country of giants.

That person was the betrayed from the very beginning.

…Yes.

From the very beginning, Lord Skeleton was able to ascend to the status of a complete "God of Betrayal".

But he gave up.

That's——

"——Destiny. He told me so."

Mr. Skeleton replied minding his own business.

He turned his back to everyone and took off his golden clown mask.

Then, he was thrown into the last grave in front of him.

That is the tomb of "Eternal Life Duke" four hundred years ago.

Further forward from here, there are still densely packed graves - and in each grave, there is a corpse lying.

"I thought at the time... could this level of [betrayal] carry this twisted country, twisted will, and twisted history?"

The Skeleton Lord calmly replied: "I don't think so. Because this betrayal is not pure...it is mixed with the element of 'skeleton', turning me into a miserable and abominable undead."

He turned around.

Under the mask and inside the knight's armor, there are very ordinary corpses without any special effects of light and shadow.

It was an extremely thin, extremely dry corpse. It was only two and a half meters long - from a giant's point of view, it was so short and skinny.

The value of those heavy metal boots is like a "wind dancer".

Precisely because it is so light... it cannot walk properly without heavy enough boots.

Because as an undead, Skeleton King does not have any special powers. It's just a continuation of life... It's just a tombstone, a "data center" that can remember everyone's history.

Yes.

Mr. Bones did not "carry the soul on himself" at all.

What he really carries with him... is the "history" that has been passed down from generation to generation for a thousand years and experienced by himself for four hundred years, recording all the records of the country of giants from ancient times to the present.

What he was carrying was not the "Mourning Song Principality" at the moment when the gray fog hit.

But all the giants from the birth of the Eternal Kingdom to its destruction 1,400 years before the Great Barrier collapsed——

It is this achievement that is recognized by the world.

Get the divine name [Skeleton Lord].

"My family has been betrayed by the Kingdom of Eternal Life for a thousand years, and I have betrayed the people of Eternal Life for another four hundred years. I have lived alone in the world for a thousand years, and finally found you, Ai Lei. I have been betrayed by others to A person who cannot be betrayed...

“When my tombstone was destroyed, I gave up their last memory of me; when the statue of the burying mother-in-law was destroyed, I gave up the last vestige of my will to maintain this ridiculous [tradition].

"To this day, the kingdom of eternal life is destroyed here."

The Duke of Bones declares here: "I hereby give up the name of [Dragon Bones]."

All the decorations on his body fell apart and were destroyed.

Cloak, armor, gloves, crown, boots——

The only thing that exists in this world is the corpse.

It laughed at itself.

"...How come this tattered body can still be kept?"

It said, grabbed his spine, and pulled hard——

Broken bones scattered across the sky and earth.

All the proof of the existence of the God of Betrayal and Bones - [Skeleton Lord] was shattered here.

However, a more pure "God of Betrayal" will be born in the abyss of death——

"——Give me your body, Ai Lei."

In this distorted void with oil painting-like tones, old voices, young voices, and babies’ voices sounded at the same time.

"——Ahhhh Aaaaaaaa!!"

Ai Lei's body suddenly appeared with many mosaic-like fuzzy color patches, and she let out a shrill scream that didn't sound like a human voice.

Although it is only one syllable, it cannot be understood in human language.

——She is undergoing an irreversible upgrade under the gaze of the players.

Looking at it, she was about to be swallowed up by the blurry color block.

But at this moment, the last rib of Skeleton Male's body happened to be inserted into the earth.

Coincidentally, everyone looked at the rib at the same time.

Longjing Cha suddenly realized something. ~IndoMTL.com~ The Skeleton Lord's plan... is probably to erase his "Skeleton" priesthood through complete betrayal, and swallow Ai Lei's body to become the pure "God of Betrayal".

But His plan overlooked an important issue.

Ai Lei is an angel.

The new God of Betrayal was promoted from an angel... and the Lord of Bones wanted to engulf her body.

Then, the old "Skeleton Lord" can be regarded as... already dead.

If so.

The death of a bronze-level transcendent will give birth to an ordinary-level nightmare, the death of a silver-level transcendent will give birth to a difficult-level nightmare, and the death of a gold-level transcendent will give birth to a twisted-level nightmare...

If the sages who control the truth die, an alien-level nightmare will be born... However, gods also control the truth. And it goes deeper.

Then——

That's all he thought about.

——Heaven and earth collapsed.

The three players, a cat, Elle, and everyone on the treasure ship "Silver" were all swallowed up by the instantly twisted and collapsed space.

It is not just the soul that is sucked into the dream world.

But the whole person fell into a "nightmare"——

The next moment.

Except for the rib, there is nothing left in the underground tomb.

——[Everything] disappeared.