A strange world

Chapter 616 Section 13. Commission from the Undead

"You passed, narcissistic human being."

If the book spirit didn't say this, Annan would still be proud for a while.

The lich who stayed here took the initiative to strike up a conversation: "I am Valar."

"Annan." Annan always responds kindly to those who release good intentions.

They left the third tomb together and walked along the stairs to the depths of the Corruption.

"Do you know where this is?" Annan asked.

"you do not know?"

"I'm just here to deliver a message."

The Lich's eyes flashed with soul fire: "The Skeleton Duke is recruiting smart undead, so I'm here."

Standing on the last step, a vast tomb hall appeared in front of me.

As they appeared, a maggot as fat as a lamb squirmed.

"Welcome to the gathering of genius undead!" The maggot's exaggerated chanting tone reminded Annan of the bard, and its attention was focused on Annan, "But why aren't you an undead?"

"I am the vampire messenger, here to deliver a message to Duke Skeleton."

Maggot looked at Annan and said, "Oh, come with me. As for you, noble lich, do you want to party with other undead or attend the lich's party?"

"Which one is interesting?"

"Of course it's a carnival of the undead. Liches are just a bunch of mutes who can only read in silence!"

The Lich was not angry at all, and even agreed: "I choose the former. See you next time, Annan."

"goodbye."

Annan watched the lich in the mage's robe walking in the direction the maggots were pointing.

Liches, dead spellcasters are resurrected for some reasons, or strictly speaking, reborn - some are really resurrected as undead, and some are just dead bodies with new consciousnesses, but they just happen to have all the memories of this body.

But the two are hard to tell apart, even by themselves.

Withdrawing his gaze, Annan followed the squirming maggots.

The braziers inserted throughout the hall were blooming with bright flames, and undead undead creatures were wandering in the street-like tomb hall, but some were not, such as Annan saw a vampire wearing a high-collared cloak.

However, Annan is neither a vampire nor has any vampire characteristics, so they cannot recognize him.

Across the tomb hall, Maggot led Annan to a gate guarded by skeleton guards.

"This man is the blood envoy and wants to see the Duke."

They successfully passed the gate and continued deeper along the spiral steps with burning torches.

Annan's attention fell on the bottom of the maggot. Its soft body could fit perfectly into the shape of the stairs. It moved like a water element but would not leave any traces.

The spiral steps were still going down, but the maggots stopped in front of a stone door cut into the wall and knocked open the door.

A skeleton sitting behind a desk, wearing an old noble dress and holding a quill, looked up.

"Duke Skeleton, hello..."

The skeleton interrupted Annan: "I'm not the Duke, just his assistant. You can tell me."

"I am the envoy of the Blood Clan... Princess Crimson sent me a letter..."

Annan revealed his identity several times and handed over the parchment letter given to him by Princess Crimson.

The skeleton assistant put the parchment letter on the table, "Duke Skeleton is not here, and your companion has been here."

"My companion?" Annan thought of the vampire in the hall.

The Crimson Princess didn't say... Could it be another branch of vampire?

"It seems you are not in the same group..." said the smart skeleton assistant.

"Really not, are they also for cooperation?"

The soul fire in the skeleton assistant's eyes made a gesture of sizing up Annan: "I can't tell you unless... you are willing to go to the Duke of Skeleton."

"You want me to go? A foreign envoy?"

The skeleton assistant sighed: "The undead outside don't know that Duke Skeleton is not in the necropolis. It's not a good idea to let them know."

"You tell me first, and I'll think about it later," Annan said.

"Okay." The skeleton assistant seemed not to be afraid of Annan's rejection, "They are just like you, with the cooperation of the big shot behind them."

It seems that not only Princess Crimson wants to join forces with Duke Skeleton, but she is also lagging behind a lot because of two useless messengers... Fortunately, Annan is here.

Gotta get ahead of them...

If this can be used to achieve cooperation with the Skeleton Duke, the Crimson Princess will be very happy. And from a human perspective, it would be more beneficial to humanity to allow the relatively mild-mannered Scarlet Princess to have a voice.

At least they won't be raised in captivity and killed like pigs.

"I am willing to try to find Duke Skeleton." Annan thought, "But I hope you can answer a question."

"What?"

"why me?"

"You...have an aura that makes me feel comfortable." The skeleton assistant hesitated.

"That's it!" Maggot, who had been silent all this time, echoed, "Following you will make me feel like I'm seeing my parents!"

Is it calling itself a fly?

The skeleton assistant continued: "Not all beings can be trusted by us. You have this quality, so I am willing to believe it."

Annan guessed that his charm became another form of... charm in the eyes of the undead.

"Okay, I'll try to do it, where's Duke Skeleton?"

The skeleton assistant mentioned a place: the edge of the Lost Zone.

"Wenwen City?"

"It seems you know." The skeleton assistant opened the drawer and took out a pocket crystal skull and placed it on the table. "It will guide you to find the Duke. Also, please do not approach the Lost City. If you see undead that are different from us, , just stay away from it..."

Annan once again heard the same warning as Dracula's butler.

When he asked what happened in Lost City, the skeleton assistant shook his head and said he didn't know, and even the Duke was investigating.

The maggots brought Annan back to the ground from the big tomb. The screaming banshee in the distance seemed to have discovered him, fluttering and came close to him, lingering around Annan like an elf, always reaching out curiously to touch Annan's black hair and earrings. .

They stopped following as they approached the withered border area. Annan bid farewell to them and walked towards the forest.

When the surrounding shrubs and weeds turned green again, Annan touched the leaves of the World Tree.

"are u there?"

"What's the matter?" Tedder responded quickly.

"I encountered a strange thing...I met a girl and a white deer in a forest. She said that she was the consciousness of the forest..."

Annan told Tadel the somewhat horrifying story from before.

"The carrier carrying consciousness is damaged, and consciousness will dissipate..."

"You mean, she just disappeared because the carrier was damaged?"

"Well, there must be something hurting this forest around."

Annan couldn't help but look back at the area bordering the forest and the kingdom of the dead, because of the undead that invaded this forest?

Ask the Skeleton Duke after you find him.

"I found some books about curses, do you want them now?"

"Let the third batch of envoys be taken to Liberty City. I can't go back for the time being."