Online Game: Crazy Skeleton-Chapter 1447 - 1323: The Tragic Life of the Old Man

"Dear nephew!"

After confirming Su Ran’s identity as an undead, the old man instantly changed his attitude and approached with an expression of surprise, "You took off that outfit so suddenly, I hardly recognized you!"

"Err, did we know each other before?"

With a call of "dear nephew," Su Ran was thoroughly bewildered. The NPC’s change was too abrupt, and he didn’t react for a moment.

"I don’t know you, but I had a profound friendship with that old skeleton, so calling you dear nephew is not too much of a stretch."

The old man looked at Su Ran with increasingly kind eyes, and the crazed demeanor was no longer there.

"What?"

Su Ran was somewhat skeptical about the truth of this statement. After all, one from the God Race and one an undead, their races have been adversaries since ancient times, yet he claimed a profound friendship, why not say they were biological father and son?

"Don’t doubt me, I’m just a death-row inmate, could I still deceive you?"

The old man shook his head and sighed, staring intently at Su Ran, "I never expected an undead to sneak into the Celestial Realm’s Divine Might Death Cell, nephew, you really have some nerve!"

"You flatter me, senior."

Su Ran still didn’t dare to release the old man, and continued to probe, "With your strength, how did you end up as a prisoner?"

"Ah, it’s a long story, but since you are the heir to the old skeleton’s mantle, there’s no harm in telling you."

The old man fell into thought, and after a long while, he finally said, "You might find it laughable, but I am a criminal of the God Race, seduced by humans, I stole a Divine Wish Stone from the Wishing Pool. As you can imagine, the Celestial Realm was enraged. They stripped me of my divinity and banished me, never to set foot in the Celestial Realm again."

"Unfortunately, I didn’t learn my lesson and continued to believe the slanders of the Human Race, plotting to steal the God Totem as well. In the end, I was caught and they nearly beat the crap out of me."

"Pfft...cough, cough, senior, I didn’t mean to mock you, I just remembered how my aunt’s neighbor’s uncle’s golden retriever got ravaged by a teddy bear, please continue."

Su Ran quickly covered up his laughter with a few coughs, so as not to embarrass the old man, and put on a solemn face, waiting for the old man to continue. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

This was an NPC’s dark history, which he had to listen to attentively; it could very well trigger a hidden quest!

"Thanks to the Dark Honored One who nobly rescued me, I managed to escape one disaster. It was only after his reminder that I realized how despicable humans can be."

The old man didn’t take offense at Su Ran’s reaction, and kept talking about his grim past, with his voice growing very low.

"Since then, I’ve planned to take revenge on the Human Race, but never did I expect to be ambushed as soon as I arrived at the Imperial City of the Human Race. My Pair of Wings was broken, I was thrown into the Divine Domain Main City, got beaten up all over again, and then ended up here. It’s been tens of thousands of years now, and I still haven’t been able to escape this death cell."

"Damn, senior, your life’s pretty tough!"

Su Ran was thoroughly astonished. He thought his own fate was quite bad enough, but comparing it to the old man’s, it was no laughing matter! Besides that, from the very beginning until now, he didn’t even know the old man’s name -- how low could one’s presence be?

"It’s somewhat tough, hardly worth mentioning."

The old man’s expression eased up, as he continued to ramble to Su Ran, "In this death cell, I found the value of my existence. I’ve killed countless death-row inmates, and my strength has increased rapidly. Unfortunately, due to the constraints of the rules, I can’t escape the shackles of this prison, without any hope of release!"

Su Ran glanced at the calluses on the old man’s left hand and nodded as if he understood.

"Who would have thought that even someone as powerful as the Dark Honored One could not break the chains of life and fell into the cycles of reincarnation, while I’m still barely surviving, hehehe, indeed life is like a play and a play is like life!"

"Senior, you don’t need to be too pessimistic. Let me tell you some good news, the Divine Domain Main City is now in name only!"

Seeing that the old man was getting a bit desperate, Su Ran quickly changed the topic. He reiterated the story of the shattered God Totem and the collapse of the Main City, dumping all the mud he could on the God Race, no matter how nasty it sounded.

"""Of course, if it had been Amu God King, I wouldn’t have said this."""

Su Ran then realized that he indeed had the potential to be a weather vane, and one that was self-taught at that...

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, the old man’s eyes lit up, and a gleam of excitement flashed through them.

"Dear nephew, is what you say true?"

"Look at what you’re saying, what kind of relationship do we have, could I possibly deceive you? Now you can’t even see a person’s shadow in the main city, it’s desolate like a wasteland!"

To increase credibility, Su Ran even used body language.

"Hahaha, this is tremendous good news!"

The old man laughed heartily, tears welling up in his eyes in excitement, "It hasn’t been easy, really hasn’t been easy, finally, we have reached this step!"

"However..."

Su Ran didn’t have the heart to dash the old man’s hopes, but he couldn’t keep from speaking either, and waited until the man had calmed down a bit before saying, "But Amu God King is still alive."

Come to think of it, it was him who had caused Amu God King to regain his senses from his zombie state, so there was no need to mention this to the old man and risk upsetting him.

"Amu God King? How is he still alive?!"

The old man cried out in shock, his eyes filled with disbelief, "Impossible, absolutely impossible! Before I was thrown into the Divine Might Death Cell, this god king had already fallen. How could he possibly still be alive?"

"Senior, don’t get agitated, the resurrection of Amu God King is an undeniable fact, and whether you believe it or not doesn’t change that, and this opportunity to enter the Death Cell was given to me by him."

Su Ran shrugged his shoulder blades, unaffected by the old man’s agitation.

"I understand now!"

The old man seemed to remember something, and said with hatred, "That kid used a forbidden spell of the God Race, ’Eternal Undeath!’"

"Forbidden spell?!"

Su Ran immediately became interested; if he could learn this ability, wouldn’t he be immortal?

Of course, that was assuming Amu God King would teach him the forbidden spell...

"But it doesn’t matter, as long as his Rune Wand and throne have not been found, his strength will be reduced by thirty percent! Even if I cannot defeat him, self-preservation should not be a problem!"

"Senior, both of these artifacts are with him; I have seen him use them."

Su Ran’s expression became slightly awkward; not only had he seen them, but he had also given them to Amu God King for free...

"Cough cough, let’s forget about it then. I’m far from being his match now, better to just stay here in the Death Cell honestly, and see if I can outlast him to death!"

When the old man became determined, even he himself was to be feared; he had never been afraid of a life-or-death struggle, and if he could bring down the main city itself, not to mention a mere god king.

"Senior, have you never thought about getting out?"

Su Ran was beyond exasperated, wondering if the old man was addicted to prison or what.

"Get out? In my life, I’ve never hoped to be able to get out! The reason why ’death’ is included in Divine Might Death Cell is because there are death rules set up here. Anyone who is imprisoned here, not a single one can leave alive!"

Whenever he spoke of this, the old man seethed with barely contained rage; if not for this damn rule, would he have stayed obediently in this prison?