A strange world

Chapter 619 Chapter 16. Businessman from another world

Skeleton Duke is more like a scholar than a warrior or a king, exuding the temperament of Dean Blehim, so that it is easy to ignore its near-legendary power.

"Is it obvious?" Annan asked.

Why does it seem like no one except the Crimson Princess and her men can tell that she is not a vampire?

"We are the undead, so the feeling will be clearer." Duke Skeleton replied, "You don't have the smell of a vampire."

"A human being who serves as the messenger of the blood clan, it seems that you also have other tasks..."

"No, Lina and I are... friends, and I am willing to help her."

"No wonder."

No wonder?

Feeling that he would return to the warlock if he continued to ask, Annan changed directions: "Do you know what's going on outside?"

"The infection in Lost City..."

"What happened to Lost City?"

After setting off, it seemed that many things were related to Lost City.

"It used to be the territory of the princess, but then something happened, and weird things started to appear in the city."

"What's weird?"

"Something we can't understand."

"What is incomprehensible?"

"We will understand the logic of spell casting by disassembling the spells. We don't know the weirdness. They are disordered and chaotic, and if we disassemble them, we will only get a mess."

"So the consciousness I saw was because of it?" Annan thought thoughtfully.

The Skeleton Duke raised his head for the second time: "What did you see?"

"A girl who is with the White Deer. She says she is the consciousness of the forest and wants to see the forest one last time."

The flickering soul fire of Duke Skeleton revealed his reminiscence: "We have been neighbors for hundreds of years, is it going to disappear too..."

"Is it because of Lost City?"

"Yes……"

Annan watched the Skeleton Duke finish drawing the magic circle and put the remaining materials aside.

"Aren't you going to leave?"

"Wait a minute, there is one more thing I haven't done... I can only do it at the edge of Lost City."

The Skeleton Duke continued to use his eyes, rotten meat, and ribs to form an evil ritual.

"Did you cause the strange things in the forest?"

"Did you encounter something strange?"

"A... burnt girl seeking revenge on the nobles who killed her family."

"How did you escape?"

"Hide away? I just rescued that nobleman, and then threw him back when I found out that he was innocent."

"This is also a way..." Duke Skeleton thought thoughtfully. "It's not me, they come from Lost City. The scope of Lost City is gradually spreading."

"Can't you stop Lost City?"

The Skeleton Duke raised his head, and his sight seemed to look through the soil to the sky.

"If the stars cannot return, Wenwen City will not regain its tranquility..."

"Stars...gods?"

The Skeleton Duke made a sound that sounded like a sigh.

When preparing to activate the magic circle, Annan asked: "Should I use evasion?"

"No, experience is equally important to a warlock."

The scholar-like Skeleton Duke activated the magic circle, and a strange gray mist began to rise, forming a surging wall of sighs. Gradually, the gray fog rolled up, revealing an unsettling outline.

The tall silhouette covered by the gray robe appeared in the gray mist. Under the gray robe were the tentacles holding up the body. Black mist and blood surged between its tentacles.

"I call it a merchant. You can trade items with it." The Skeleton Duke was happy to share his knowledge.

"Are you sure? It looks like an evil pagan."

"I have traded many times, and the things they brought out do not belong to Allen's world, but should be creatures from other worlds." As he spoke, the Skeleton Duke named a shopping list that Annan could not remember.

The gray mist surged up, spitting out a bunch of things bought by the Skeleton Duke like a living creature.

"Do you want to buy something?" Its soul fire looked at Annan.

"I won't buy anything."

"Buy some." Duke Skeleton encouraged.

"Do you get a commission?"

“Stepping into the unknown is what drives us.”

Annan doesn't want to be exposed to this kind of existence without beauty, but this sentence is really beautiful.

"For the sake of this sentence... I want a leaf of the World Tree."

"You bought this with them?" Duke Skeleton asked strangely.

"If not, don't blame me."

As a result, the gray mist brewed for a while and actually spit out a falling elm leaf, which was caught by the skeleton Duke's hand bone.

"Is this the leaf of the world tree?"

Annan felt a relaxing atmosphere from the elm leaf with jagged edges.

"Maybe it's the World Tree of their world."

"Do you need it?"

Duke Skeleton shook his head: "This is your thing."

"Then how should I pay? Souls? Or treasures?"

"Their pricing of items is different from ours. You can take out the items you want to exchange and let them choose. But let me pay for you this time."

The Skeleton Duke waved his hand, and the magic ring worn on his finger bones tilted out a pile of intact bones.

For Annan it was desecration of the dead, for Duke Skeleton it was human trafficking.

The tentacle merchant who took away the bone pile disappeared together with the gray mist. The Skeleton Duke put away the items he exchanged, and the "Leaf of the World Tree" was borrowed for research.

"Can we go back now?"

"I accepted your assistant's commission to find you, and then it will give priority to cooperating with Princess Crimson."

"Your contract spirit is different from other warlocks I've seen..."

"What are the other warlocks like?"

Annan had not come into contact with many, or very few, warlocks, only Claudia, a cheap magic stone producer in Liberty City.

"Just like the rumors say."

Annan thought about the rumors about the warlock and fell silent.

"Then, young and brave man of his word, I would like to entrust you with—"

"I refuse." Annan interrupted immediately.

"Don't you want to hear the content of the commission first?"

"That's right... Just tell me."

The Skeleton Duke recounted the not-too-distant past of Lost City:

The Lost City was built in a strange place. In order to protect the humans and believers here, the king and the gods suppressed the place. However, with the years of turmoil, the gods lost contact, and the Lost City that could not be replenished reappeared as time went by. weird.

The citizens of the city left, and the princess imprisoned herself in Strange City, using her bloodline to suppress Strange City.

After hearing the story, Annan still said: "I refuse."

"Aren't you worried that I will refuse to form an alliance with you because of this?" The skeleton Duke's soul fire flickered on and off.

Annan said nonchalantly: "I am just a messenger, and I have done what I can do."

Annan is not a vampire, nor is he trying to make money for Free City. It is enough for Skeleton Duke to lean towards Crimson Princess in the subsequent alliance.

"Okay..." Duke Skeleton showed obvious disappointment.

"How did the vampire rescue the princess?" Annan thought of something.

"Rescued? The princess is still in Lost City."

Annan frowned.

The princess is in Yiwen City... Then who is the princess in Huadu?