The echoing deep voice of the Skeleton Lord is long and profound.
In a daze, Longjing Tea seemed to have seen some kind of hallucination...
The shape of His ancient and rusty armor looks so consistent with the surrounding tombs, and the style is so unified. It seems as if He should have been here originally - in the tomb of this ancient dynasty that has disappeared for nearly a thousand years.
His voice didn't seem to come from in front of everyone.
And it's like standing in the lost past, whispering to everyone in the future.
——At this moment, Annan is watching all this through the eyes of Longjing Tea.
Unsurprisingly, traces of being affected by sacred objects appeared on his body - but the players could not see it.
[You have obtained a new mark "Low-Level Influence: Ancient Whispers"]
[If it is not removed in time, you will fall into a random nightmare (difficulty: hard) with the keyword "moth" in seven days]
...[Ancient Whispers].
Annan frowned slightly.
This is a low-ranking influence that is not commonly used in rituals, but is somewhat cherished - because it is not easy to obtain.
This influence is obtained by an old man who is "more than twice his maximum lifespan" and tells "a secret that happened before the listener was born and has not yet been understood".
In other words, it requires an ancient transcendent or ritualist who has used many life-extending rituals, and to be exact, has completely exhausted twice his original lifespan, in order to trigger it.
This is not the influence of the fields of "skeletons" and "betrayal" controlled by the Skeleton Lord.
And just because of His age...
Since Annan can also gain influence, it means that even Annan doesn't understand the secret that Lord Bones is planning to tell.
He concentrated his attention and listened to the secrets told underground nearly two thousand kilometers away——
I saw Mr. Skeleton walking alone in front, reaching out to touch a tomb on the roadside from time to time. Even if these tombs did not indicate the names of the "residents" buried here, it did not prevent the skeletons from recognizing their identities.
Longjing Cha and his two companions walked side by side with their hands burning brightly. They were so nervous that they looked at each other from time to time to confirm that the people around them were indeed still there. It was as if they would suddenly disappear in the next second.
An extremely weak light burned quietly in the completely dark underground... while the Skeleton Man's cloak in front cast an invisible shadow.
At a glance, all I could see were huge stone pillars and stone tombs the size of a garage.
Apart from that, there is nothing else.
The players are all extraordinary, and even one player is a ghost himself - they are not afraid of ghosts.
But the ancient, dead history itself creates a huge sense of oppression.
So much so that the players didn't even dare to say a word.
They didn't even chat privately on their friends' pages, and they didn't even think of starting a live broadcast... they just held their breath, tried to walk as lightly as possible, and followed the skeleton man quietly.
Suddenly, without any warning, the Bone Man's steps stopped.
Because he was so tall, he completely blocked the road ahead. For a moment, Longjing Tea couldn't see what was in front of the skeleton man.
But Dove saw it.
She reacted immediately, posted a screenshot of it to the forum, and immediately started the live broadcast.
Because she realized in an instant that the situation in front of her might be important enough to be recorded——
It was a tomb that looked no different from the surrounding "garages".
But what's special about it is... there is a stone statue standing in front of it.
This is the first and only thing "beyond the tomb" that Dove sees -
The stone statue is not high, even with the half-meter-high base, it is less than two meters. Because the person carved in the stone statue itself is quite short.
She was an old woman with a kind face, a compassionate smile, a thin and short stature, a slight bow, and squinted eyes. Her appearance was quite ordinary, her face was full of wrinkles, as if she was so good-tempered that she gave out sweets to the children.
Eat like an old lady.
But even the Skeleton Lord must bow his head to her.
——Then her identity is self-evident.
This old lady, whose appearance and figure are the closest to those of ordinary people and has nothing special at all, is the head of the Twelve Righteous Gods.
She is the god believed in by the Principality of Funeral Song, the "bone picker", the "god invisible to the living", the "god of silence", the "mother of embers and charcoal", the god of death and the earth - also
She is commonly known as the Bone Burial Grandma.
The Bone Burial Granny is the protector of all those who have not been buried... She will gently bury all the corpses of those who died in the earth and rebury them. Only the dying people can see her figure.
At the same time, the mother-in-law is also the god who least likes to respond to high-level rituals... Except for the requiem ceremony and the bone burial ceremony, it is difficult to get a response from almost all rituals related to the bone burial of the mother-in-law.
Her silent character is comparable to Lady Silence.
This is understood by the ritualists as "the stability of the earth" and "the irreversibility of death". Because "the earth and the dead are silent".
However, although the mother-in-law is very silent, compared with the righteous gods such as the Red Knight, the old grandmother, and the Sui Father, the mother-in-law has a better temper - probably on the same level as the cup girl and Miss Good Luck, almost from
I've never seen him angry.
In other words, in the history since the Third Age, the mother-in-law has never been angry. In the two thousand years of history, she has not taken the initiative to attack any mortal or extraordinary person... even the extremely rare "offending death person"
", she usually doesn't care.
Especially after the birth of the Bell Ringer, she cared less about those "resurrected from the dead".
So much so that when ritual masters prepare rituals, they usually do not consider the bone burying mother-in-law among the "ingredients to prevent offending a certain god".
——When people ask for power in fields such as fire and light, war and veto, they will pay great attention to whether their rituals are arranged correctly, and whether there are any materials in the ritual that violate taboos.
For example, Sui Fu hates water - whether it is in cups, wells, swamps or on his body.
Therefore, after calling on the power of Father Sui, he will always dry the ritual performer... But to put it bluntly, if the ceremony venue is too humid (for example, if the ceremony is held in a swamp), then not only will it be impossible to borrow Sui
The father's power may even lead to Sui's father's attack.
Mr. Yao will have requirements for the nature of the ritualist. Because he is the god of purification, if the ritualist is mentally disordered, distracted, or haunted by evil thoughts, the remaining influence when he leaves will naturally eliminate it.
But on the other hand, if the ritualist is a truly evil person and is unrepentant - then the power of light will directly burn him to death.
On the contrary, the ceremony of burying the bones of the mother-in-law is very simple.
Strictly speaking, the bone burying ceremony used by Delicious Wind Goose with the help of wandering children did not even place the sacrifices properly. The ceremony site was dug out instantly using extraordinary abilities. It was not solemn at all, and it was not serious at all.
But they still borrowed the power and did not compromise at all.
Longjing Cha thought to herself, if the bone-burying mother-in-law wasn't such a good-natured person.
Then the Bone Lord's act of worshiping in front of her might cause a spirit to appear and fight him on the spot...
——Yes, the Skeleton Lord worships in front of the statue of the Bone Burying Granny.
And the process is quite formal.
I saw Mr. Bones kneeling down on one knee in front of the old lady who buried the bones.
His left hand drooped straight down, meaning to pay tribute to the earth; and he lightly touched his forehead, eyes, ears, lips with his right hand, and then pressed it on his heart.
This understanding means to swear not to think, not to see, not to hear, not to speak, not to live - these are the five principles of the dead.
If the deceased violates any of the rules, he will be judged as abnormal.
As for Mr. Bones, he is undoubtedly an anomaly among anomalies.
Look, the corpse is talking...
"Man will eventually face death."
Lord Bones said calmly in front of the statue of Bone Burying Granny.
Although he didn't look back and didn't name anyone.
But Longjing Tea still reacted immediately - He was talking to himself.
So he boldly asked: "Then you..."
"--therefore."
The Bone Man made a low, hoarse and old voice.
"Resisting death is the greatest betrayal a person can do."