"You probably never thought that I never needed you... I didn't need any half of my body from the beginning."

The voice of the skeleton male was very calm.

Just like an old man chatting with his younger generation, his words made Ailey so frightened.

"Father, don't..."

"All I need is just another demigod who holds the mark of the 'betrayed' to testify to this scene."

The skeleton continued to walk forward slowly.

That was originally the location of the statue of the mother-in-law who was buried, but now it is empty.

In an illusory and abstract world like a witch barrier, many tombs emerged in the open space in front of the skeleton's body. Each tomb is covered with a crown.

The skeleton stepped hard, and all the tombs collapsed and turned into bottomless pits.

There is nothing inside.

And all other "houses", that is, the "graves" of the original giants, have also broken down one after another.

All the tombs collapsed in the underground of the Duchy of Sangge.

"I never realized before... burial is forgetting, and forgetting is betrayal. 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 destroyed by me, then it is the most important 'start'.”

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

But why did he lack the side of "betrayed"?

This is very simple.

Because people had already set up a tomb for him before they were ruined by the Lord.

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

The Skeleton Man said slowly: "The extraordinary people buried ordinary people, the priests buried believers. The elders buried children, the husbands buried wives, the wise men buried apprentices, and the curse has been passed down from generation to generation. And I am the most grown and saint among them... no one can bury me.

"I buried everyone, and in the end I was the only one left. No one knew where my despair was—poison, which could not kill me."

Even no matter how poisonous it is, it cannot kill [Eternal Life].

The poet said that the country of giants inherits the curse of immortality.

But that was not a curse, but an extremely grand drama that everyone participated in the performance.

--Yes.

Because everyone doesn't know... the Skeleton Lord cannot kill himself at all. The Eternal Lord they beloved has long become an immortal soul.

It's natural.

The Skeleton Prince became a god...but this was not because of his betrayal during his burial, but earlier - three hundred years ago.

In order to fight against the "death tide" in the south, the Immortal Principality fought the deadly spirits for five hundred years and completely wiped out the undead. They would commit suicide when the Great Enchantment collapsed, just to prevent themselves from being transformed into the undead...

However, no one knew that their grand duke was the dead from the beginning.

——All their efforts, sacrifices, and decisions... are doomed to failure.

"I did nothing. I offered nothing. I opposed nothing. Because this is not something I can object to, and I can't even make the matter of being the dead public."

The Skeleton said slowly: "Because [Eternal Life] has been just a tombstone from the beginning... it is just a tombstone. He is the tomb of all those who are about to die and not die, and is a symbol of the ending, a totem and tool for all those who have abandoned everything to the underworld.

"They decided everything on their own, and I quietly watched the country collapse... Everything finally died. There was no life on the noisy country, and the giant buried under the land was the giant who walked towards death safely like their ancestors.

“—I’m the only one left.”

From the beginning, the undead will not be killed by the grey fog.

He was left alone.

Is that hatred?

Not really.

The eternal blood should be cut off from me, and I will become the only tombstone in the future - this is the sacrifice and decision made by the [Eternal Life] of that year.

That is not revenge or betrayal.

It is the deception four hundred years ago that must be brought to you [Answer].

When the Eternal Lord decided to turn into bones four hundred years ago and ended the ridiculous, circular drama, everything was destined.

The betrayal happened four hundred years ago.

His experience of betrayal continued to a longer time ago, as early as the "tradition" of the Immortal Principality took shape.

The clown-like clown who has the blood of "eternal life" and who has to wear masks for the rest of his life... From the very beginning, he was deprived of the power of "death". For the giant who yearns for "death that must be reached", this is the most cruel punishment - he will never rest in peace until death.

However, there must be one who remembers the death of all people in order to maintain orderly rule, maintain relationships between people, and maintain this shaky giant country.

That person was betrayed from the beginning.

……Yes.

From the very beginning, the Skeleton Prince was able to be sublimated as a complete "God of Betrayal".

But he gave up.

That's-

“——Fate is determined. So He told me.”

The skeleton man replied on his own.

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

Then, he threw it into the last tomb in front of him.

That was the tomb of the "Eternal Life" four hundred years ago.

From here, there are still dense graves of people - and in each grave, there is a corpse lying.

"I thought at that time... 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 incorporates the 'skeleton' elements, making me a sad and abominable undead."

He turned around.

Under the mask, in the knight's armor, it is very ordinary, with corpses without any special effects on light and shadow.

It was a very thin and extremely dry corpse. It was even only two and a half meters - from the perspective of the giant, it was so short and thin.

The heavy metal boots have the value of being like the "wind dancer".

It is precisely because it is so light...it can't walk normally without using heavy enough boots.

Because as a dead soul, the skeleton male has no special power. It just continues his life... It is just a tombstone, a "data center" that can remember everyone's history.

Yes.

The Skeleton Madam did not "carry the soul on himself."

What he truly carries in himself... is the "history" recorded from ancient times to present, which has been passed down from generation to generation by his ancestors for a thousand years and has been personally experienced by him for four hundred years.

What he carries is not the "Dule of Songs" at the moment when the gray fog hits.

But all the giants from the beginning of the birth of the Kingdom of Eternal Life to the destruction of the Great Enchantment 1,400 years before the collapse of the Great Enchantment—

It is this achievement that is recognized by the world.

Obtain the name of the god [Skeleton Guard].

"My family has been betrayed by the Kingdom of Eternal Life for a thousand years, and I have betrayed the people of Eternal Life for four hundred years. I lived alone in the world for a thousand years, and finally found you, Alei. The one who was betrayed by others is irresistible...

"When my tombstone was destroyed, I gave up their last memory of me; when the statue of the Boneburial Grandma was destroyed, I gave up the last will to maintain this ridiculous [tradition].

"To this day, the Kingdom of Eternal Life is destroyed here."

The Skeleton Lord declared here: "I abandon the name of [Skeleton Lord Lord] here."

All the decorations on him collapsed and disappeared one after another.

Cloak, armor, gloves, crowns, boots—

The only thing that exists in this world is the corpse.

It laughed self-deprecatingly.

“…How come this rag can be kept?”

As he said, he grabbed his spine and pulled it hard—

Broken bones scattered in heaven and earth.

The existence of betrayal and the God of Skeleton - [Skeleton Guard] is here to be destroyed.

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

"—Give me your body, Aly."
To be continued...