With the standard high-level Nehekhala language coming out of the stone's mouth, the golden carapace on the long trunk of the tomb giant scorpion suddenly opened outward, like opening the lid of a coffin.

A skeleton dressed in a black robe, wearing a huge bronze headdress, holding a pure gold staff and a bronze knife, floated out of thin air, like a black-clothed god of death from the endless abyss, floating in the air, above the tomb giant scorpion, looking at the greenskin and humans in front of him with a hollow skull.

He exuded a great deal of coercion, and his white mandibles snapped together in a cacophony like rusty gears rubbing against each other.

"Despicable orc, you have successfully aroused the curiosity of this priest, and you were originally going to take your souls directly, but now this priest has changed his mind, why do you speak the high-ranking Nehekhara language, and, although I don't want to admit it, I did hear the name of this priest from your lowly mouth just now, and said! How do you know! ”

He gritted his teeth and shouted the last few words.

Even in the former Nehekhara Dynasty, only the aristocracy had the opportunity to learn the high-level Nehekhara language, believing that the incantations chanted in this obscure language could communicate with the gods and unleash all kinds of magical spells unimaginable to mortals, so ordinary civilians could learn it at all, let alone appear in the mouth of a green-skinned orc thousands of years later.

None of this was a problem for the stone, though, as the Lotus Tongue allowed him to speak all known languages in the Warhammer world, but he certainly wouldn't tell the skeleton his secrets, and he wasn't in the mood to answer the other party's questions right now.

Don't look at the orc lord's calm and breezy appearance on the surface, in fact, his heart is turning over the river and the sea.

"I'm going to go! Sure enough, it's Karitaman! But...... Why a Lich Priest? This script is completely wrong! ”

Kalitaman is the name of the final boss of the "Valley of the Dead Tombs" in his memory, and his full name should be the Third Dynasty of Nehekara, the priest king of Lebaras, the spokesperson of the "God of Knowledge" and the "Patron God of Lebalas" Tahqi in the mortal world, the immortal king of the tomb, and the "staff of the dead" King Kalitaman.

It turns out that Stone remembered correctly, and it was he who appeared on the stage, but the problem was that it was not a noble tomb king who appeared in front of him, looking at the other party's dress, and the way he appeared, it was obviously a lich priest.

What's more, the reason why he was able to accurately guess the name of the person behind the scenes, and say it out loud in Nehekhara, was because in addition to the memories of his previous life, the system's mission description was also clearly written.

[Stewed Pork Rib Soup (3/3): Kill the Tomb Scorpion (0/1), Kill the "Lich Priest" Karitaman (0/1)】

Karitaman, named by name, is that he is not wrong, but the problem is that the stone can be 100% certain, the final boss in the game in the previous life is a tomb king who has just woken up not long ago, but now the one who appears in front of him is indeed a lich priest!

Yes, although the name is exactly the same, there is more than 108,000 miles in between!

Each Tomb King was the true king of a city-state in a certain era in Nehekhara, and the Lich Priest was a member of the "Funeral Cult", an organization specially established by the original priest king "Immortal the Great" Setra in pursuit of the path of eternal life.

As far as the stone knows, there was only one person in history who had both identities, and that was the well-deserved villain of the medieval Warhammer, a super mage who single-handedly created the two races of vampires and tomb kings, the creator of necromancy, and the "undead scourge" Nagash with superior IQ and touching emotional intelligence.

There's a conspiracy! There is definitely a conspiracy!

Who is Old Man? An immortal being who can still ascend to the throne after the destruction of the world a hundred years later! How could this Karitaman be like him?

As a background party player who loves to get to the bottom of things, Stone didn't know everything about the setting of the Tomb King race in his previous life, but he also knew a little about it.

At first, Nekhkala was only a human city-state kingdom that simply worshiped death, but under the conquest and rule of King Setra of Kmuri, the city-states were united for the first time, forming a huge centralized monarchy with a strong army and a rich people.

However, Emperor Setra was not satisfied, he found that the world was too big to conquer all the territories he saw with his limited life, and his fragile body could not support his huge ambitions, so he gathered the strongest and wisest priests and scholars of Nehekhara and founded the "Funeral Sect" to study the secrets of immortality for himself.

After hundreds of years of continuous research and countless financial investments, the Sect's research results greatly prolonged the life of Setra, and they also learned the art of mummification on the premise that they had mastered the ability to control the winds of magic.

However, the years are not forgiving, and seeing that the time limit of Emperor Setra is approaching, the priests' research on the art of immortality has just touched a little threshold.

They had to tell the Emperor that they had found a way to bring the souls of the deceased back to their bodies, but the process would take a long, long time, perhaps thousands of years, but they could mummify the Emperor's body through a special ritual, preserve it properly, and wait for the whole process to be completed.

The priests promised that when the time came, the Emperor would be crowned with an immortal body made of gold and would be able to reign again for thousands of years.

Setra had no choice but to trust them, and he gathered the most famous craftsmen and slaves in the kingdom, built a huge pyramid, and finally took a hundred of his loyal legions with him to wait for the day when he would wake up.

This was a good start, and it laid the foundation for the fall of Nehekhara.

Beginning with him, the priest-kings of the various city-states of Nehekhara followed this process, and in addition to fierce infighting among themselves during his lifetime, he spent a lot of manpower, money, and material resources to fund various research and experiments of the "Funeral Sect", continued to feverishly search for a way to live forever, and after his death, he took his legion to the pyramid to be buried, waiting for the day of resurrection.

After centuries of study and perseverance, the funerary cult has developed a deeper understanding of the mysteries of eternal life and death, and they secretly apply the results to their own use.

The fifth High Priest of the Funeral Order, Kattrap, became the first Lich Priest to fully bind his soul to his body, and in a way, he had mastered the secret of immortality, but he soon discovered that what he had gained was not eternal life, but only immortality.

Although the souls of these lich priests do not die, their flesh has not yet reached immortality, and will grow old and decay with the erosion of time, and in the end, no matter how powerful their flesh is, they will not be able to resist the wear and tear of time, and their appearance will be no different from that of the dead, their rickety and thin bodies as if they were crumbling at any moment, and their dry and wrinkled skin is like parchment covering their bones, looking like a weak skeleton.

Ironically, the seemingly immortal existence of the Lich Priests turned into a curse, and they had to continue to study and find the true art of immortality in order to achieve complete liberation.

Maybe they could have given them a little more time, but maybe it was because this disobedience angered the gods, and soon a terrible catastrophe swept across Nehekhara.