Chapter 221 I Hereby Give up the Name of [Bone Lord]

"You should never have thought that I never needed you... I didn't need any half-body from the very beginning."

The skeleton's voice was very calm.

It was like an old man chatting with a junior, but his words made Ellie so terrified.

"Father, don't..."

"All I need is another demigod who holds the mark of the betrayed as a witness to this scene."

The skeleton man continued to walk forward slowly.

It was originally a place to prevent the burial of the mother-in-law statue, but now there is nothing.

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

With a single step on the bones, all these tombs collapsed, turning into bottomless pits.

There is nothing in it.

And all the other "houses", that is, the "graves" of the original giants, also burst.

All the graves collapsed in the ground of the entire Duchy of Mourning Song.

"I didn't realize it before... Burial is forgetting, and forgetting is betrayal. And the tombstone is the last memory of the dead.

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

"—But if I destroy it, then it is the most important 'beginning'."

From the very beginning, Duke Bone was more than just a "betrayer".

But why is he missing this "betrayed" side?

this is very simple.

Because people had built a tomb for the Grand Duke before he was buried.

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

The skeleton said slowly: "The extraordinary bury ordinary people, the priest bury the believers. The elder bury the children, the husband bury the wife, the sage bury the apprentice, and the curse is passed down from generation to generation. And I am the oldest, the greatest and the most holy among them. People...no one can bury me.

"I buried everyone, and in the end I was the only one left. No one knew where my desperation was—poison, which couldn't kill me."

Even the most poisonous poison cannot kill 【Eternal Life】.

The poet has a cloud, the kingdom of giants inherits the curse of immortality.

But it wasn't a curse, it was an extremely grand drama in which everyone participated.

--Yes.

Because everyone doesn't know... The Skeleton Lord can't kill himself at all. The immortal man they love and love has long since become an immortal undead.

It's a matter of course.

The Bone Lord became a god... but not because of his betrayal at the time of his burial, but an earlier betrayal—three hundred years ago.

In order to fight the "death tide" in the south, the Principality of Eternal Life 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 being transformed into undead...

However, everyone did not know that their grand duke was an undead from the very beginning.

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

"I didn't do anything. I didn't propose anything. I didn't object to anything.

Because it's not something I can object to, and I can't even make it public that I'm undead. "

The skeleton said slowly: "Because [Eternal Life] is just a tombstone from the very beginning. He is the tomb of all those who are about to die, and the symbol and totem that end for all those who have given up everything to go to the underworld. with tools only.

"They decided everything for themselves, and I quietly watched the country collapse... Everything ends. Above the noisy country, there is no longer any life, and the people buried under the ground are with them. Like our ancestors... a giant who went to death safely.

"—I'm the only one left."

From the very beginning, the undead will not be killed by the gray fog.

He was left alone.

Is that hatred?

Neither.

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

It wasn't revenge, it wasn't betrayal.

It was the deception that happened four hundred years ago, and the inevitable [answer].

When Duke Eternal decided to turn into a skeleton four hundred years ago and put an end to that ridiculous, 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 "eternal life" and will wear a mask all their lives... A ruler who has been deprived of the power of "death" from the very beginning. For the giants who yearn for "mortal death", this is the most cruel punishment - there is no rest until death.

But there must be someone who remembers the deaths of all men to maintain orderly rule, maintain relationships between people, and maintain this crumbling kingdom of giants.

That person, from the very beginning, was the betrayal.

……Yes.

From the very beginning, Duke Bone was able to ascend as a full "God of Betrayal".

But he gave up.

That is--

"—Fate. He told me so."

The Skeleton Lord answered himself.

With his back to the crowd, he 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" four hundred years ago.

Going forward from here, there are still densely packed graves - and in each of the graves lies a corpse.

"I thought at the time... Can this level of [betrayal] carry this distorted kingdom, distorted will, and distorted history?"

The skeleton replied calmly: "I don't think so. Because this betrayal is not pure... It is mixed with 'bones', making me a sad and abominable undead."

He turned his head.

Under the mask, in the knight's armor, are very ordinary corpses without any light and shadow effects.

It was a very thin, dry corpse. It was even only two and a half meters—so small and lanky from a giant's point of view.

Those heavy metal boots are as valuable as "wind dancers".

Precisely because it's so light...it can't walk properly without heavy enough boots.

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

Yes.

The skeleton did not "carry the soul on himself" at all.

What he really bears on himself... is the "history" that has been passed down from generation to generation for a thousand years, and has been experienced by himself for four hundred years.

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

But from the beginning of the birth of the kingdom of immortality to the destruction of all the giants 1,400 years before the collapse of the Great Barrier——

It is this achievement that is recognized by the world.

Obtain the divine name [Bone Lord].

"My family was betrayed by the kingdom of immortality for a thousand years, and I betrayed the people of immortality for another 400 years. I lived alone in the world for a thousand years, and finally found you, Elle. Betrayed by others to the point of no betrayal man of……

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

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

The Skeleton Master hereby announces: "I hereby abandon the name of [Bone Master]."

All the decorations on his body collapsed and annihilated.

Cloak, armor, gloves, crown, boots—

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

It laughed self-deprecatingly.

"...How can this piece of junk be kept?"

As it said, it grabbed its own spine and pulled hard—

The broken bones are scattered in the sky and the earth.

The god of betrayal and bones - all the proofs of the existence of the "Bone Lord" are shattered here.

However, the purer "God of Betrayal" is about to be born in the abyss after death——

"—Give me your body, Ellie."

In this distorted void of oil painting tones, old voices, young voices, and baby voices sounded at the same time.

"—Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

On the other hand, Ai Lei suddenly had many fuzzy mosaic-like patches on her body, and she let out a shrill scream that was not like a human voice.

Although only a syllable, it is incomprehensible in human language.

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

Seeing, she was about to be engulfed by the fuzzy color block.

But at this moment, the last rib on the Skeleton Man happened to be inserted into the ground.

All of them, by coincidence, looked at the rib at the same time.

Longjing Tea suddenly realized something.

Lord Skeleton's plan... Probably through complete betrayal, he will erase his "skeleton" of the priesthood, and swallow Ailey's body to become a pure "God of Betrayal".

But in his plan, an important issue was overlooked.

Ellie is an angel.

The new god of betrayal is re-upgraded from an angel...and the skeleton is about to engulf her body.

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

If.

The death of a Bronze rank superhero will give birth to ordinary nightmares, the death of a silver rank superhero will give birth to difficult nightmares, and the death of a gold rank superhero will give birth to distorted nightmares...

If the sages who control the truth die, there will be another world-level nightmare... However, the gods also control the truth. And more deeply.

So--

He only thought about it here.

- The world is overturned.

The three players, a cat, Alley, and everyone on the treasure ship "Silver" were engulfed by the instantly distorted and collapsed space.

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

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

the next moment.

Apart from that one rib, there was nothing left in the catacombs.

——[Everything] is gone.