"Mr. Skeleton, we bought the tickets, where are we going?"
"Go to Babs, then change course and take the airship to the foreign country of Holima Kingdom!"
"Why are we going there?"
The girl Alice was a little scared, but more curiously she looked at Adnos. The world has been peaceful for a long time. For most people, the legends about the undead and the necromancers belong to centuries ago. Stories about wizards and undead, demons and devils, those belonged to their grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather... and were things they had really seen before.
Adnos was wearing a wig, mask, gloves, and top hat, and was reading a local daily newspaper. During the long period of time he was asleep, the world had undergone earth-shaking changes. The wizards had disappeared, and the gods had exalted the Kingdom of God. , extraordinary power is everywhere, and even mortals can use the magic crystals and alchemy tools of artifacts to exert extraordinary power.
And Adnos, who got rid of the Song of the Dead and the erosion of countless dead souls, recovered mentally from the original madness, and the period when Hell was the controller of the River Styx was not as good for Adnos. It's not that it has no effect. He has recovered all his memories and has become more reserved.
Adnos looked at Alice and said, as if he was amused by her innocent question: "Why? Because! The Lord of the Night, the true god, is the weakest now!"
"That's God, the eternal god!" Alice felt that what Mr. Skeleton said was a bit scary. Could it be that he was a demon preparing to carry out a plan to destroy the world, just like in an epic novel.
"Only those who are completely dead will be immortal!" Adnos sneered.
Adnos discovered that the girl who had activated her undead clone was actually a member of the Monar family. She had a face that was exactly the same as Adnos' sister, Aisha Monar.
It was her soul blood from the same source as Adnos that stimulated Adnos's sleeping soul. However, now, the Monar family has long declined, and the current royal family of the Mara Alliance Kingdom is no longer Mona. The situation of the Er family, or since Adnos's sister Queen Aisha Mornar, the situation of the Mornar family has taken a turn for the worse.
"Sure enough, they are a bunch of trash, they even lost their throne!" Adnos crossed his legs and glanced coldly at the historical records about the Monar royal family.
Alice felt that Mr. Skeleton liked to talk big words. He talked about the royal family, gods, and ancient mythological heroes, and most of them were ignored by him. He talked about trash and trash.
"Well! Mr. Skeleton, I think it's wrong to speak ill of our ancestors behind their backs!"
Adnos, wearing a white mask, raised his head and glanced at Alice. Alice suddenly swallowed and did not dare to say a word.
"very scary!"
Riding the steam locomotive all the way to Orly City, and then taking the steam train in Orly City, headed to Babus City, the capital of the Kingdom of Mara. After stopping in Babus City for a large purchase, Alice followed Adno Si took an airship, passed through the Kingdom of Golden Rose and the Black Forest, and arrived at the foreign country of Holima Kingdom.
Alice, who has never left her hometown, feels that this journey is like an adventure of the century. Mr. Skeleton looks very scary, speaks scary, and has a very cold temper, but she feels that Mr. Skeleton is a Good people.
Mr. Skeleton seemed to be a great nobleman during his lifetime and left behind many treasures. Alice had never seen so many gold and silver treasures, and she had never thought that one person could be rich enough to buy the whole world.
Take the first-class cabin of the most luxurious Platinum train and travel along the coast, taste the red wine produced in Saint-Sal City and the beef from Zhongzhou, and enjoy the scenery of the sea.
In the dreamy Mara Kingdom capital Babus and his unscrupulous purchases, Mr. Skull asked him to buy books for him, various history books, books about gods, the development history of various churches, the history of other continents and The state recorded it, but it did not restrict Alice from buying other things. Alice went crazy and bought the clothes, skirts, and hats she wanted.
"Ah! It's nice to have money!"
"Long live Mr. Skeleton!"
Alice felt that she had never been so happy in her life, as if her pupils could see gold coins plopping down.
She accompanied Mr. Skeleton to visit the Church of the Goddess of Light in the Kingdom of Mara, although she felt that it was quite strange for a skeleton to worship the Goddess of Light.
"Even if he is a skeleton, he might have been a believer of the goddess of light during his lifetime. In that case, wouldn't it make sense?"
However, Adnos had no intention of paying homage to the Goddess of Light. Instead, he stood in front of Archangel Pharos for a whole day.
Alice rode an airship for the first time. The height when viewed from above made her legs feel weak. She lay on the window for a long time without being able to stand up. She was afraid of falling from the airship all day long.
Until Mr. Skeleton said contemptuously: "Totally stupid."
Alice stubbornly lay on the window, and later took a walk on the sky corridor of the airship, which really overcame her fear of heights.
The Kingdom of Holima is a foreign country. Its customs, architecture, and beliefs are all very different from those in the Church of Light. Buildings like to be built with huge stones. Because of the hot weather, they like to wear short and loose clothes. However, Demons like to wear short and loose clothes. With the advent of the Crystal Age and the dramatic development of trade and commerce, the situation here has gradually been assimilated by the outside world.
The people here believe in the Lord of the Night. They believe that the night is a symbol of the gods. They are used to praying in the dark. They like the color black and often see the symbol of the moon.
On the first day Adnos arrived here, he entered the Night Temple of the Lord of the Night. The once broken colossus of the god had been rebuilt, but it no longer had the pressure and aura of the god it once had.
Adnos did not do what he did in the Church of the Goddess of Light this time. Instead, he faced the statue of the Lord of the Night and said to Alice.
"You know? In our time, there were no gods!"
Alice didn't believe it: "How is it possible, there are no gods? How is this possible? Gods are existences that have been believed by humans since the earliest times and have been handed down!"
Adnos laughed, and the laughter became rattling and a little scary: "Of course, because at that time, there was only one true faith, called the Church of Light, and there was only one God who truly proved the existence of God!"
"That is - Archangel Pharos of Balance!"
When he said this, Adnos suddenly showed deep fear in his eyes. He didn't know whether he was afraid of this, the name, or the truth behind the name.
After a long time, Adnos came back to his senses from this fear, and he scorned all these gods who emerged later: "You don't know the truth of this world at all. Everything in this world is just an illusion. , everyone is living in a game and a scam!”
"I want to leave this world and go to another country, the abyss world! Get out of this prison!"
"But before that, I need to offer a sacrifice to it. Even if I become a demon, I must be the strongest one!"
"I am Adnos. This sacrifice must of course be... grander~"
Adnos' face hidden behind the mask, his fleshless mouth, split open to reveal a crazy smile.