"You never thought of it, I never needed you...... From the very beginning, I didn't need any half-body. ”

The skeleton's voice was very calm.

It's like an old man talking to a junior, but his words make Elle so terrified.

"Father, don't ......"

"All I need is another demigod with the mark of the 'betrayed' to bear witness to this scene."

The Skeleton Male continued to walk slowly.

It was originally the place where the statue of the Granny Granny was buried in the bones, but now it was empty.

In the illusory, abstract world like the witch's enchantment, many graves emerge in the open space in front of the skeleton. Every tomb was covered with a crown.

With a single stomp on the bones, all the graves collapsed into bottomless pits.

There was nothing in it.

And all the other "houses", that is, the "graves" of the original giants, have also been broken.

In the entire Principality of Mourning, all the graves collapsed.

"I didn't realize it before...... To bury is to forget, and to forget is to betray. And the tombstone is the last memory of the deceased.

"It is my only weakness, the bridge between the living and the dead......

"—But if it is up to me to destroy it, then it is the most important 'beginning'."

From the very beginning, Skeleton was not just a "betrayer".

But why is he missing this side of the "betrayed"?

It's simple.

For the people had already built a tomb for the Grand Duke before he was buried.

"Our tombs are sealed, do you know what that means?"

The Skeleton Gong said slowly: "The transcendent buries ordinary people, and priests bury believers. Elders bury children, husbands bury wives, sages bury apprentices, and curses are passed down from generation to generation. And I am the eldest and greatest of them all...... No one will be able to bury me.

"I buried everybody, and in the end I was the only one left. No one knows where my despair lies—poison, it can't kill me. ”

No matter how poisonous it is, it can't kill the [Eternal Father].

The poet has clouds, and the land of giants inherits the curse of immortality.

But it wasn't a curse, it was a very grand drama that everybody was involved in.

- Yes.

Because everybody doesn't know...... The Skeleton Male couldn't kill himself at all. Their beloved Eternal Father has long since become an immortal undead.

Naturally.

The Skeleton became a god...... But this was not because of his betrayal at the time of his burial, but even earlier—three hundred years ago.

In order to fight against the "tide of death" in the south, the Principality of Eternal Life fought to the death against the undead for 500 years and completely exterminated the undead. They will kill themselves when the Great Barrier collapses, just to prevent themselves from turning into undead......

However, no one knew that their Grand Duke had been an undead from the very beginning.

All their efforts, all their sacrifices, all their determinations...... All are doomed.

"I didn't do anything. I didn't bring anything up. I have nothing against it. Because it's not something I can object to, I can't even make it public that I'm a ghost. ”

The Skeleton Duke said slowly: "Because the [Immortal Male] has been ...... from the very beginning It's just a tombstone. He is the grave of all who are dying and not yet dead, and he is only a symbol, a totem and a tool for all those who have abandoned everything to go to the underworld.

"They decided everything on their own, and I watched as the country collapsed...... All is doomed. There is no longer any life in the noisy land, and those buried under the land are the same as their ancestors...... A giant who walked peacefully to death.

"—I'm the only one left."

From the very beginning, the undead will not be killed by the gray mist.

He was left alone.

Is that hatred?

Neither is it.

The eternal blood should be cut off from 'me', and I will be the only tombstone in the future—this is the sacrifice and decision made by the [Eternal Prince] back then.

It wasn't revenge, it wasn't betrayal.

It is the deception of 400 years ago, which led to the inevitable answer.

When the Eternal Life Princess, four hundred years ago, decided to turn into bones and put an end to the ridiculous, cyclical drama, everything was doomed.

The betrayal took place four hundred years ago.

And his experience of betrayal lasted much longer. Long before this "tradition" of the Principality of Eternal Life took shape.

The clown-like people who have the blood of "eternal life" and wear masks all their lives...... From the very beginning, the ruler was deprived of the power of "dead". For the giants who yearn for "mortal death", this is the most cruel punishment - they will not rest until they die.

But there must be someone who remembers the death of all in order to maintain orderly rule, to maintain human relations, and to maintain this crumbling kingdom of giants.

That person was a betrayed person from the very beginning.

…… Yes.

From the very beginning, the Skeleton Gong was able to ascend as a complete "God of Betrayal".

But he gave up.

That's—

"—Fate. That's what He told me. ”

The Skeleton replied to himself.

He turned his back to the crowd and took off his golden clown mask.

Then, he was thrown into the last grave in front of him.

It was the tomb of the "Eternal Father" 400 years ago.

Further from here, there are still dense graves - and in each grave, there is a corpse.

"I thought...... Can this level of betrayal carry this twisted kingdom, twisted will, and twisted history? ”

The skeleton replied fairly, "I don't think so." Because this betrayal is not pure...... It was infused with 'bones' and turned me into a pathetic and abominable undead. ”

He turned around.

Beneath the mask, in the knight's armor, were very ordinary corpses without any light and shadow effects.

It was a very thin, very dry corpse. It was even two and a half meters long – so short and thin from a giant's point of view.

The heavy metal boots are as valuable as the "Wind Dancer".

It's because it's so light...... Without using boots that are heavy enough, it simply cannot walk properly.

Because as an undead, the Skeleton Man doesn't have any special powers. It's just a matter of prolonging life...... It is just a tombstone, a "data center" that can remember the history of all people.

Yes.

The Skeleton Male did not "carry his soul on himself" at all.

The ...... that he truly carries in himself It has been passed down from generation to generation from generation to generation for 1,000 years, and has been experienced by myself for 400 years, and records all the recorded "history" of the land of giants from ancient times to the present.

What he was carrying was not the "Duchy of Mourning Song" at the moment when the gray fog hit.

It's all the giants from the beginning of the birth of the Eternal Realm to the destruction of the Great Barrier 1,400 years before the collapse of the Great Barrier—

It is this merit that is recognized by the world.

Obtain the godname [Bone Male].

"My family has been betrayed by the living nation for a thousand years, and I have betrayed the living people for another four hundred years. I've lived alone in the world for a thousand years, and I've finally found you, Elle. Betrayed by others to the point of being unbetrayable......

"When my tombstone was destroyed, I gave up their last remembrance of me; When the idol of the Buried Lady was destroyed, I gave up the last shred of my desire to maintain this ridiculous tradition.

"To this day, the kingdom of eternal life is destroyed."

The Skeleton Father hereby declares: "I hereby renounce the name of the Skeleton Father. ”

All the decorations on his body have crumbled and disappeared.

Cloaks, armor, gloves, crowns, boots –

The only thing that remains in the world is the corpse.

It laughed self-deprecatingly.

“…… How can this tattered body still be kept? ”

It spoke, grabbing its own spine and tugging hard—

Broken bones were scattered in the heavens and the earth.

All proof of the existence of the god of betrayal and bones, the Bone Father, is shattered.

However, the purer "God of Betrayal" is about to be born in the abyss after death-

"—give me your body, Elle."

In this distorted void of oil painting-like tones, the voice of the old, the young, and the voice of the infant sounded at the same time.

"-Ahhh

Elle's body suddenly appeared with many vague patches of color like a mosaic, and she let out a shrill and mournful cry that did not resemble a human voice.

Although it is only a syllable, it cannot be understood in human language.

- She is making an irreversible upgrade under the watchful eyes of the players.

Seeing it, she was about to be swallowed up by the vague patch of color.

But at this moment, the last rib on the skeleton happened to be inserted into the earth.

Everyone was extremely coincidental, and at the same time they looked at the rib.

Longjing Tea suddenly realized something.

The plan of the Skeleton Male...... It is probably through complete betrayal that he erased the priesthood of his "bones" and swallowed Elle's body to become a pure "god of betrayal".

But there is an important issue that is missing in His plan.

Elle is an angel.

The new god of betrayal was re-elevated from the angels...... And the skeleton is going to engulf her body.

Then, the old "skeleton male" can be regarded as ...... It's dead.

If it is said.

When a bronze transcendent dies, a normal-level nightmare will be born, a silver-tier transcendent will die a difficult-level nightmare, and a gold-tier transcendent will give birth to a twisted nightmare......

If the sages who control the truth die, they will be born with otherworldly nightmares...... But the gods also control the truth. And it's deeper.

So—

That's all he thinks about.

- Heaven and earth overturned.

The three players, along with a cat, Elle, and everyone on the treasure ship "Silver", are engulfed in the distorted and collapsed space in an instant.

It's not just the soul that is sucked into the dream world.

It's that the whole person has fallen into a "nightmare" -

The next moment.

Except for that rib, there was nothing left of the catacomb**.

- [Everything] is gone.