"Welcome, uh, Mr. Skeleton."
Lanya ran to the door early when she heard the ringing of the wind chimes. After shouting welcome, she saw the skeleton walking into the store.
An ordinary skeleton, an ordinary skeleton that can be found when digging up a grave in any cemetery, wrapped in a shabby purple rag.
The gray skull rotated slowly, the black eye sockets swept across the bar hall, and the skeleton's teeth shook and said:
"Is it a tavern?"
As a necromancer, Lanya is very receptive to skeletons. She answered as if talking to an ordinary person:
"Yes, welcome to Emerald."
The skeleton scratched his skull, looking a little embarrassed.
"I can't drink, can I sit here?"
Lanya turned to look at Ringer at the bar, casting a questioning look.
Lin Ge nodded slightly.
"That's great, thank you. I'm alone in a deserted cemetery and I haven't seen a living person for a long time."
Haha, it would be nice if there were no priests to purify the undead in a place like that. Do you still expect a living person to chat with you... Lin Ge secretly complained.
The skeleton walked up to the bar and turned the high chair curiously.
"Oh, this chair is so interesting."
A small skeletal creature emerged from the purple rags on his shoulders. Judging from the bone shape, it should be a rat-like creature, with its tail about a palm long.
The skeleton gently stroked the bone rat's spine and sat down on the high chair.
"He is my friend. Without his company, I really don't know how to live."
This bone rat is not very intelligent. It can only drive this small body to move. Its thoughts cannot be condensed into language, so it cannot speak.
Ringer showed an ordinary attitude, just like chatting with an ordinary drinker.
"What do you call Mr. Skeleton?"
"Just call me Bai Gu. Where is your Excellency?"
"Linger."
"Linge, why is your store opened in a deserted cemetery?" Baigu tilted his skull slightly.
Lin Ge complained in his heart, wondering what kind of strange place the door spirit had set up the entrances and exits, and said:
"It's not that this bar is located in the cemetery, but one of the entrances and exits of the bar appears in the cemetery. Where did you come in from?"
"The church in the cemetery really shocked me when I opened the door."
"Do you live alone in a cemetery?"
"I also hope someone can accompany me, but I dug up every grave in the cemetery, and it was either empty or a pile of scattered bones.
The most pity is the lady next door to me. Her bones are so beautiful, slender and delicate. She must have been a noble and gentle lady during her lifetime. It's a pity that she can't hear me. "
Ringer secretly laughed in his heart, this skeleton was really full of emotions, and he heard the bones say:
"By the way, I also took off one of her ribs and replaced it with mine. Do you want to see it?"
"Uh, haha, no need, I'm not interested in bones." Lin Ge felt that this behavior was a bit perverted.
Elise, who was listening on the sidelines, complained mercilessly: "You are a pervert."
Bai Gu felt embarrassed again, as shy as a young girl.
"How should I put it, I did feel that way, but I really couldn't control my admiration for her. When I came back to my senses, I had already done that."
After speaking, he stared at Elise's face: "This young lady's bones are also very good. She must be a great beauty after death."
"That's enough, don't talk to me anymore." Elise's expression changed, she walked out of the bar and sat in front of the store manager's new TV.
"What is that?" Bai Gu asked curiously after noticing the picture on the TV.
"That's called television."
"TV? I've never heard of such a thing. It looks very interesting. Is it some kind of new magic prop?"
"Well, you can understand that."
Bai Gu stared at the picture on the TV and said in surprise: "Has the human world become like this? I really want to go back and see it."
Ringer didn't know how to tell him that what was shown on the TV was not the world that Mr. Bones was familiar with, but another world.
He suddenly thought, if this skeleton was brought to the earth, how would it be corrected? Will there be blood and flesh?
At this moment, another customer opened the bar door.
Ringer looked at the door. It was not a guest, but the skeleton maid Kani holding a broom.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I opened the wrong door."
Kani is very nervous. After all, this is a place that even Lord Elvy cannot conquer, let alone she is just a humble maid responsible for cleaning.
Snap.
Ringer heard the sound of something falling to the ground. He turned around and found that it was Bai Gu's mandible falling to the ground.
Carney nervously left the bar and closed the door.
Bai Gu picked up his jaw and put it back in its original position, his teeth shaking excitedly and making a clicking sound.
"Nana, where did that beauty come from?"
Ringer saw Bones' reaction and replied somewhat amusedly: "In the underground world, in the castle of a headless horseman named Elvie."
Bai Gu's teeth suddenly stopped trembling, and he seemed to have regained his composure, or rather lost.
"Alas, a little guy like me will never be able to get close to a big shot's castle."
Ringer didn't know how to comfort the disappointed skeleton, so he could only smile helplessly.
However, Bones quickly recovered from his sadness, and his attention was attracted by the program on TV. It happened to be playing a comic book movie "Ghost Rider". The protagonist is a stunt driver who can transform into a flaming skeleton, wearing a Black leather jacket, weapon is an iron chain.
When he saw the male protagonist transformed into the Ghost Rider, riding a flaming motorcycle towards the horizon, he was so excited that all the bones in his body were shaking, and there was a fierce collision of bones under the rags wrapped around his body.
"If I could be as powerful as him, I would definitely be able to gain beautiful love."
Celia opened the door and walked into the bar. She was startled when she saw the bones in front of the TV. She subconsciously assumed a battle-ready posture. This was the vigilance she had developed while exploring various dungeons.
"Where did the undead come from?"
Then she realized that the skeleton was vulnerable.
She had encountered various skeletons in the dungeon, but never one so weak.
"Hey, so weak."
Then he ignored the bones and walked straight to the bar where Ringer was.
Ringer looked at Bones who had stopped shaking, worried that he might have been hit, and asked: "Mr. Bones, are you okay?"
Baigu turned around, and two faint blue flames suddenly lit up in his dark eyes.
"I want to become stronger, I want love, and I want to get married!"
Its teeth collided violently together, and the sound it made was sonorous, powerful, and extremely firm. It seemed to be filled with infinite determination, attracting the attention of everyone in the store.
Lin Ge saw Lanya walking in front of the bones and said excitedly:
"I believe you, sign a soul contract with me, and together we will snatch that lovely maid out of the castle."
Baigu looked at Lanya in surprise.
"Who are you?"
Lanya waved the staff in her hand, and a circular magic pattern appeared between her and the bones. The purple-black magic pattern slowly flowed, exuding a mysterious light.
"I am a necromancer. Come on, sign a contract with me and let us become stronger together. As long as you put your hand into the contract magic pattern, you can master the power of magic, become a skeleton mage, and then move toward the archlich direction, keep moving forward.”
Most of the ways undead creatures become stronger are by absorbing the essence of the living. Only a small part of them can master the power of magic from the moment they awaken.
Maybe it's because they were powerful magical creatures before they were alive, or maybe it's caused by the external environment, but White Bones obviously does not belong to this category. He is just an ordinary skeleton that awakened by accident.
If you do not attack the living, you can also master the power of magic by studying and learning on your own, but this method requires high intelligence, and most low-level undead creatures have poor intelligence.
Finally, there is another convenient way, which is to conclude a magic contract with a small group of weirdos among humans called "Necromancers" or "Necromancers". By relying on magic patterns, you can also master the power of magic.
The price of this method is freedom, but for undead creatures that cannot master magical power on their own, they may not be able to understand the meaning of freedom based on their intelligence.
Skeleton's IQ is obviously sufficient, but living alone in the cemetery, he has little information and does not know the common sense of the undead world. Looking at the circular magic pattern in front of him, his bone claws trembled slightly.
The power was right in front of him, within reach, and his heart moved.
The great prospects described by Lanya made the fire of his soul keep beating.
Lich, what a beautiful word, it sounds very powerful.
"If I become a lich, can I defeat the Headless Horseman?"
"The lich is the king of the undead, and the headless horseman is certainly not a problem."
Baigu finally couldn't resist the temptation of strength, and slowly raised his hand, his gray bone claws passing through the magic lines.
The magic pattern changed instantly, the black light swelled, and then quickly shrank, imprinted on the bone wrist like a bracelet, and the dark runes sank into his wrist bones.
He clenched his fingers and then released them, feeling no special changes.
Is this the end?
Lanya cheered: "I finally have my own contract summon, and now I am a real necromancer."
Celia said unexpectedly: "So you are a necromancer. No wonder you are so poor at using other magic."
Lanya wrinkled her nose and said: "I am different now. With White Bones, I can also play a role in future battles. And we will become stronger quickly, right, White Bones?"
Bai Gu suddenly felt like he had been deceived and tilted his head in confusion.
"What does it mean?"
Lanya said: "What do you mean? Of course it means that every time I fight in the future, I will call you here and continue to grow during your fight."
With a click, Bai Gu's skull fell from his neck and rolled twice on the ground. The soul fire in his eyes was extinguished.
He suddenly regretted it.
