Demon World, Karnas Mountains.
This place is located in the extreme north of the devil world, and is covered by blizzard all year round. If the season of the devil world is not in the hot summer, the blizzard here is enough to freeze all living life.
Therefore, living in the Karnas Mountains... are all undead with a second life.
"His Royal Highness, I think it's... irrational to visit which lord directly."
As soon as Josh walked out of the portal built by Zenas, he heard the proverbs spoken by this brave demon of sin.
The race of Zenas is second only to the Chaos Demon in the Demon World. He rarely fears anything, but unfortunately, the owner of these mountains is Zenas who has to fear, and even hold an attitude of awe The presence.
"I've met the Duke a few times, and he's an easy-going man," Joshua said.
"easy going… "
Zenas used to obey Joshua's orders in the past, but this time Zenas did not believe Joshua's "easy-going" evaluation.
The power of the devil world is divided into one king, four princes and seven heroes. One king refers to the master of the devil world, that is, the father of the third prince, Notleine. He stands at the apex of the devil world and is the absolute ruler. Under Notleine, there are four A duke who controls the four territories of the Demon World.
It was one of the four dukes that Joshua was going to visit, known as the Duke of Bones... Zenas had only heard a little about this duke's past.
The four dukes of the Demon World are all synonymous with danger. Unless Notleine personally visits, they will kill any creature that invades their territory according to their own preferences.
"Isn't it the same as those despicable humans to judge a person just based on rumors and appearance?"
Qiao Xiu's rhetorical question left Zenas speechless.
He remembered the little girl he had met in the prison before. Afterwards, Zenas hid in the darkness and used the flames overflowing from his body to form a ghost-like beacon to guide which little girl successfully entered the portal .
The little girl smiled and waved at the beacon before entering the portal, which touched some unknown emotions in Zenas' heart. Zenas couldn't understand such emotions, but... It's unforgettable, that scene is better than Zenas's past. The sight of burning an enemy to rubbish is even more unforgettable.
Seeing Zenas' silence, Joshua did not continue to embarrass this loyal subordinate.
Joshua's gaze turned to Ciri, who followed him to the Demon Realm behind him.
The spar on her neck gave Ciri an unusually large deterrent. In order not to make a mistake during the teleportation, the spar on her neck was detonated, so she generously took Joshua's hand into the portal.
"I always feel like there are wolves or bears staring at me in the forest."
Ciri stepped on the thick snow on the ground, let go of Joshua's hand, took out his magic cane and looked at the surrounding forest shrouded in darkness.
From the moment she stepped into this snow-covered forest, she had a very familiar feeling... the feeling of being stared at by something, or that kind of malicious gaze.
"There are no harmless creatures like wolves and bears here. It may be a soul eater or a mind flayer staring at you. If you are unlucky, it may be a death knight."
Qiao Xiu recalled the memory of the third prince. This area is basically the core area of the skeleton's territory. The undead creatures living in the forest are of course not the low-level mass-produced undead creatures like skeleton soldiers.
The moment ordinary humans step into this place, in just a few seconds, the surrounding undead creatures will swarm up and devour them into nothingness with no soul left.
The reason why Qiao Xiu can stand here so safely is not because of Qiao Xiu's identity as a Chaos Demon, but because the owner of this forest gave Qiao Xiu a small privilege.
"… "
Ciri didn't speak, because Joshua's words touched Ciri's blind spot once again.
She only needs to know one thing, and that is the existences staring at her in the darkness of the forest, the ones who she absolutely cannot win with the small staff in her hand.
"Let's go, it's not far from the castle where the master lives."
Josh took Ciri and Zenas deeper into the forest.
…
There was indeed a castle in the depths of the forest. The forest outside the castle was covered with frost, but in the garden inside the castle, various unknown flowers bloomed. The flowers were very dim in color. Also surrounded by dark thorns, coupled with the shroud of night, the castle as a whole revealed a strange atmosphere.
When Joshua walked through the stairs of nearly 100 floors and came to the gate of the castle, the gate seemed to be slowly opening in order to welcome Joshua.
The interior decoration of the castle is full of luxurious atmosphere. It seems that the aesthetic taste of this skeleton man did not decay with his death.
There is also music. The whole castle reverberates with unknown music. It is an ensemble... The timbres in the ensemble are all instruments that Joshua is familiar with.
Thanks to the parallel world
"Why do I find this music so weird."
Ciri followed Joshua all the way up the stairs in the center of the castle hall. On the stairs was an oil painting of a portrait of a young man.
"Strange? Little guy, your words are enough for me to feed your soul to my dog!"
A voice so rough that it was like the sound of fingernails rubbing against the blackboard echoed in the entire hall... A dark figure "walked" through the oil painting.
"His Royal Highness Prince… "
The sinful demon who followed Qiao Xiu saw the appearance of the figure and wanted to step forward and block in front of Qiao Xiu, but Qiao Xiu stretched out his hand to block Zenas' rude move.
The appearance of Duke Bone is very different from the standard image of the lich in Joshua's impression, that is, "Kel'Thuzad". Although the interior has been decayed to the point where only skeletons remain, the clothes on his body are more than that of Kel'Thuzad. A magician is more like a pirate.
"You better give me a reason to trespass on my territory and disturb my performance, or even if you are the son of Notreins, I will make you a skeleton and give it to your father."
Hearing the remarks of the skeleton man, the flames on Zenas rose, but the scarlet light in the skeleton's dark eye sockets flickered, and Zenas' huge body instantly fell to the ground with a heavy sound. sound.
Is this the power that can rival the Lord of Demons
Qiao Xiu is really not worth mentioning in front of this existence. Qiao Xiu's identity has no effect here, so he can't continue to run the train with his mouth like he is in the imperial city.
"I see that you are very talented, form a band with me!"
"… "
Skeleton's skull suddenly turned ninety degrees, as if thinking about the meaning of the word "band" by Joshua.
"Simply put, I'm here to enjoy your performance, Lord Duke, if you don't mind, can you let me listen to a song?"
Joshua made an offer that every player could not refuse.
If the lich in front of him was a musician with tens of thousands of people at a concert, perhaps this proposal of Joshua was simply courting death.
But in a place like this, no one could appreciate his playing except the ghostly servants who served the skeleton.