Chapter 419 List of bones
I saw that in the wooden box in front of Rhode, a book that was not very thick was lying quietly. Its cover was completely black, and the edges were spliced with white bones. The entire cover looked chilling, and even a wave of chill could be felt from it. Rhode just opened the box and felt his hands as if he was holding a piece of ice. The thorough coldness almost freezes the blood. Of course, Rhode also knew very well that it was not his body that was frozen, but his soul.
Is this a list of bones?
Looking at the book in front of him, Rhode gasped. He really didn't expect that he would see this thing. In fact, when he saw this thing for the first time, Rhode's heart immediately beat violently. No wonder, no matter which player sees this thing, they will have the same reaction.
The list of bones is not an ordinary thing. In a sense, it is a trump card in the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom, but this trump card is very uncommon.
On a continent, there are so many countries that each dig up the corners of each other. There are some people in each place who betray their own countries for various reasons and provide intelligence to the enemy countries. However, how to ensure the loyalty of these spies and not betray them or become two spies or multiple spies is a big problem for many intelligence agencies. After all, people's hearts are difficult to predict. No one can guarantee that one person will be loyal forever. No one can guarantee that others will not betray or sell them secretly.
However, the emergence of the Bone List has curbed the development of this situation to the greatest extent. It is a magic prop created by the Lich of the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom a long time ago. As long as a unique contract ceremony is passed, the name of the contracted person can be written on the Bone List. Anyone with a name on the Bone List will be immediately erased once they turn their promises. Moreover, this Bone List will subtly transform their consciousness, just like hypnosis. These people gradually become holders of completely loyalty to the Bone List and become his most loyal confidant.
But in turn, if they can keep their promises, they will also receive a considerable reward - eternal life.
Of course. This eternity is not true eternity, and there is no truly eternity in this world. As powerful as the five dragons of Creation in the face of time, they have to maintain their existence through the reincarnation of the dragon soul. Even the lich and the blood-sucking species have the end of destruction. Not to mention that this eternity is actually just a way to sell their souls.
But no matter whether it is false, people still flock to it. After all, the eternity of false is at least eternity. They do not expect to live for thousands of years. But if it can not be limited to decades of life, but can exist for hundreds or even longer, who doesn't want it? As for those who accuse them of selling their souls, ha. In their opinion, they just want to be bitches and set up a archway. If they can really give them a chance to get a long life without selling their souls, don't these guys follow them obediently?
It is precisely because of the characteristics of the Bone List that it has become the trump card weapon of the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom when various countries are instigating the rebellion. This magic prop was originally built in ancient times by those great lichs, condensed their essence, and used to control their own subordinates. Its production is very complex and mysterious. There are even rumors that the Bone List does not use spells of curse to achieve its goals, but has a deeper understanding of the contract essence of the world's origin. It is also because of this that the person who signed a contract with the Bone List is rooted from the outside.
There is no problem in this. You cannot use holy art to detect traces of necromancers from them. You cannot see anything abnormal with your naked eyes. And those people do not need to secretly engage in underground gatherings, killing and bleeding from time to time to maintain their existence. They only need to be like themselves on weekdays. They can continue their lives and work. Only after a long time, these people will be noticed that there may be some problems, but at that time, their mission may have been completed long ago.
If this list of white bones could be made in large quantities, then the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom would have been successful in dominating the continent. Unfortunately, since this list of white bones only appeared during the ancient creation battle, in the next two thousand years, the lichs were completely suppressed by the Five Creation Dragons, because the biggest problem with this list is that they can only play a role in the hands of the Lich and the Necromancer. However, the Five Creation Dragons, including the Dark Dragon, are not necromancers. Although this thing seems to be very rare, if even your subordinates become puppets loyal to the Lich at any time, then you should not do the position of your ruling class.
The Five Creator Dragons are not fools, so under their joint suppression, all the great lichs that created the list of bones were wiped out, and most of the list of bones were destroyed. After a long period of thousands of years, there were not many left in the list of bones left in the Dark Night Dragon. Although the necromancers and lichs have always tried to repeat the glory of their predecessors, they have never succeeded again. Even using this powerful magic prop has become increasingly ugly. In the past, those powerful lichs and necromancers only needed to sign contracts through simple rituals. But now, in addition to the complicated rituals, they also need to determine the specific time and which day the power of darkness is the strongest to sign contracts, which has also led to the increasing use of the list of bones.
However, for players, these things are still very good. Rhodes had remembered that there was a top-level profession of the Necromancer player who accidentally obtained a list of bones. Then he used this list to sign contracts with many NPCs, and in the end he also called the wind and rain in the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom for a while. Even players from the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom once thought it was a banner against Rhodes. After all, the starlight led by Rhodes was already very strong at that time, and defeated the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom in front of them, and those players were naturally defeated. At this moment, they finally found an ally who was no different from Rhodes' strength, and these players had naturally high expectations. The Necromancer did not disappoint everyone's expectations and climbed on the player list, which was very meaningful to come from behind and challenge Rhodes.
However, this guy's luck was really bad. I don't know if it was because of the inflated power or some reason. In the end, the player actually hit the Dark Dragon's sister. The next result was easy to guess. His plan failed. Then he noticed that the player's action, the Dark Dragon, specifically asked him to fight one-on-one, and then destroyed the list of bones. Although the player could be resurrected, unfortunately, the rare props were gone forever. Since then, the player has been depressed and has become a laughing stock for many people. In the end, he himself could not stand the ridicule and ridicule of others. In anger, he deleted the account and left the game.
Although players from other professions have no way to use the Bone List after getting the Bone List, as long as they hand over the Bone List in their hands, they can exchange them for quite powerful weapons and equipment from NPC, and may even obtain their own titles and bans. Because of this, for players, the Bone List can be said to be the most wonderful existence for their promotion and wealth. It is also because of this that even Rhodes was shocked when he saw the Bone List. He knew very well that he wanted to hand over this thing to the Duchy of Moon and what kind of reward he could get.
These white bone lists are very valuable, so it is natural that the vultures will bring people to take them back in person. According to their importance, Rhode has no doubt that the list of white bones in his hand may record the names of traitors in the entire Moon Duke. But in this way, the problem arises. How did Natasha get such a valuable thing? She is a complete lady with no combat power, and those who can have a white bone list must be powerful people like Lich. How could Natasha be taken away by Natasha? Is this young lady still has any hidden secrets and identity that Rhodes can see it away?
With such a question, Rhode also asked Natasha, but the answer he received made Rhode feel a little amused.
In fact, it was a coincidence that Natasha was able to get this list of bones. When she followed everyone to inspect that day, she accidentally witnessed such a contract ceremony when she was resting at night. Logically speaking, it was not supposed to be held at this time, but because the list of bones was quite strict with time, it would take half a year to wait after the village, so at the risk, the necromancer still made the contract. The object of his contract was an army general in the area where Natasha inspected.
Natasha was so desperate that she happened to witness the ceremony. Then, for granted, she was caught by the other party. The envoy who brought them was naturally killed, and then everyone led by Natasha was also imprisoned. At this time, if the necromancer was more diligent and more neat, he would have nothing to do.
But when he learned that Natasha was the daughter of the Lord of Eagle City, the necromancer suddenly had a thought, wanting to turn Natasha into his own eyewitness. After all, as Natasha, after she returned to Eagle City, she would definitely get a lot of confidential information.
But in this way, the problem arises - the Bone List can only sign one person at a contract, that is, between the general of the army and Natasha, the Necromancer can only choose one person. In the end, the Necromancer abandoned the general and chose Natasha. Perhaps in his opinion, the general could not provide him with further information due to his identity restrictions, but Natasha is different. She is the daughter of the Lord of the Eagle City. If she can sign her into the Bone List, then as long as she washes off her memory and relies on the influence of the Bone List, she will become her most powerful eyeliner!
The Necromancer has long given up his feelings for ordinary people. Because of this, after making this decision, he quickly abandoned the general. Even because of the shortage of time, he did not give any explanation to the other party and drove him away directly! This action also made the general quite dissatisfied. I worked hard to serve you. What is it? Isn’t it the eternal life you promised to me? Otherwise, why did I provide you with information here at the risk of being discovered? Do you really think that Grand Duke Lydia’s punishment for the traitor is not heavy enough?
Thinking of this, the general immediately felt extremely unbalanced in his heart. In the end, he actually led his confidant to come to the door and asked the Necromancer to fulfill his promise. The two sides had a disagreement and started fighting. In this chaos, Natasha took the opportunity to escape from it. Then she took away the list of bones, and then ran away with Glendi in the direction of the Eagle City.
The reason why Natasha took away this list of bones was not because she knew what it was, but because before the ritual began, the necromancer had intimidated her—through this book, she would completely become her own property. This made the girl extremely scared. She didn't know whether the weird mages would turn themselves into something strange after they ran away, so she simply ran away with this book...
Should I say that the necromancer is not lucky? Or is Natasha too lucky?
So Natasha is not clear about what this list of bones means, but the girl also knows that it is useless. If this book is taken to the Eagle City, at least it can provide some evidence for her statement. But they did not expect that after the two escaped, the general and the Necromancer quickly reached an agreement and started working again. If it weren't for this in the land of the Duchy of Moon and under the protection of the Dragon Soul of the Light, these two little guys would have been re-captured by the Necromancer before they met Rhode.
But after hearing Natasha's story, Rhodes' mood did not improve, but instead became worse and worse.
And the reason is that necromancer.
He didn't want to make a big fuss before, so he sent Vulture and his subordinates to capture it. But now Vulture and others have been killed by themselves. So what will the necromancer do next? Should he take action personally? Or should he just wait and see, or give up and leave directly?
Rhodes did not think that necromancer would give up so easily. If the list of bones really reads all the traitors in the Duchy of Moon in the Dark Night Dragon Kingdom, then the necromancer would definitely fight to snatch back this thing even if it was exposed. Although Natasha was a young lady with no power, she could not tell how powerful the necromancer was. But from her tone, the Death Knight of Vulture seemed to be very respectful to the other party. In the world of the Dead, where strength represents everything, this is already very telling.
Thinking of this, Rhode felt more and more headaches. He didn't want to be chased by a necromancer who was the same master or even more powerful. He didn't have a trump card to deal with the opponent. Qi Lian was standing by his side at the moment. But what's so bad is that the young lady's level is linked to him. Now he is only at level 28. The experience he gets to kill the vulture should be enough for him to upgrade to one or two levels. However, even so, Qi Lian is still in a gap with the necromancers above level 40. It is impossible to kill the opponent! Unless he lifts the seal and restores Qi Lian's original state - but now the trouble comes. Qi Lian can only lift the seal once again. If he faces this necromancer who appears from some unknown place, how can he deal with the Caster Plateau ruins?
“We have to move forward right away.”
After closing the wooden box in his hand, Rhode's face changed to extremely seriousness. He looked around. It was daytime. Under the illumination of the dragon soul of light, the necromancer did not have the courage to come to him, but it was hard to say after it was dark. There were special ways of sensing between the undead creatures. I believe that the necromancer must have noticed the news that the vulture was killed by him. Then, he would be very likely to do it himself.
What Rhodes did was to run to the Eagle City as fast as possible now, at least there was no need to fight alone. As long as he could ask someone to go into the water, it would be no problem to deal with a necromancer in the Duchy of Mun.
Thinking of this, Rhode immediately made a decision. He burned the carriage with fire and even gave up the complicated tributes around him. Anyway, they were just some clothes that needed to be replaced and did not need to be taken out specifically. At the same time, they cremated the poor old coachman. Then Rhode handed the wooden box to Qilian. Although the current Fire Element Lord does not have enough power, with her affinity for elements, it is still not a problem to interfere with and cut off the other party's contact with the list of bones. Of course, Rhode also knew very well that this was just a stopgap measure. But for him, it was already very good to have a stopgap measure at the moment.
After a brief arrangement of all this, Rhodes and others did not stop at all and continued to move forward. For Natasha and Grandi, Rhodes did not tell them the truth of the matter, but mentioned a little about the thing Natasha was a very important magic prop for the necromancer. He would definitely catch up with him. Just this statement was enough to scare the girl to the point of being pale.
So, after a brief rest, everyone quickly got up and set off for the next destination.
Hobbit Village.
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