Chapter 218: I, Orc, Messenger of the Gods?
The sound that appeared out of thin air startled the stone, although the system usually does this one, but this voice was obviously different, old and weak, and more importantly, it was a high-level Nekhkara.
His first reaction was to let go of the hand holding the dagger, and then, like a thief who had done something wrong, he quickly shook his head to look around, and found that everything was normal in the hall, and the boys were all bored in a daze, and some of them had even fallen asleep against the wall, without any abnormality.
So that voice was only heard by me?
Lose! If you say don't pull it out, don't pull it out? Why should I listen to you!
The stone put his eyes back on the dagger, gritted his teeth, and shook it again, and was about to pull it out, when the voice just now really appeared again, this time it seemed that the other party had already prepared, like a well-prepared troll, crackling and saying a lot.
"I am the priest-king of Lebaras, Amanam Horton, pull out this dagger that binds the soul, and my soul will return to the underworld."
When the stone heard it, this is not right, it doesn't matter what priest king you are, you are dead, and I just took the artifact and left.
But at the same time, another voice appeared in his head, this time a system that could not be more familiar.
[Serial Quest Reward Distribution, Optional]
[1.Pull out the dagger and obtain the Soul Binding Dagger (Essence) and the Golden Death Mask (Artifact)]
[2.Save the soul of the Tomb King and get a hero, Amanam Horton (Exquisite)]
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I'm going to go! What the hell is this reward?
On one side is an artifact that can be seen and touched, and there is a dagger that is very powerful at a glance, and on the other side is a hero of unknown origin, how do I choose? A little tangled, can I ask for help from the audience outside the venue......
If you want to change to the usual stone, you must choose a hero, purple quality, higher than all his current heroes! Still a Tomb King, Tomb King! Take it out to Dora Wind.
But then again, take a proud Tomb King as a younger brother? Even if there is a system, the stone is a little hesitant.
Every tomb king is an ambitious and ambitious lord, and he is a king who has once ruled a city and a country, and he will not be willing to be subservient to others easily, not to mention that Shi is still an orc, no matter how he thinks about it, he feels unreliable.
It's just that this tomb king named Amanam Horton seems to be a bit miserable, according to the meaning of the system, the one who spoke just now is his soul? Trapped in this weapon called the Soul Dagger?
It's better to talk about it first, let's enhance our relationship, get to know each other, and then make plans.
"You're the Tomb King? So tell me what's going on? ”
Stone asked in Nehekhara.
"God of knowledge is above! You...... An orc can speak our language?! ”
Although the voice was very weak, the stone could still hear the surprise.
Also, if it weren't for the freak who happened to run into a stone, even if the other people came to hear him, they wouldn't understand the meaning of his Nehekara language, and there was a high probability that they would just pull out the dagger and leave.
Presumably, he was also a dead horse and a live horse doctor just now, and he didn't have much hope.
The stone didn't bother to explain to a soul, and said casually:
"I'm a genius among orcs, do you know it? Anything will be said, don't be verbose, tell you what's going on! ”
"Thank you to the omnipotent sun god! All-knowing God of knowledge! Send such a ...... Messenger saves my lost soul! I am the ...... of Amanam Horton, Third Dynasty of Nehekhara, Lebalas"
"Don't talk nonsense! Getting to the point! ”
After a day and a night of continuous high-intensity fighting, killing skeletons, fighting giant scorpions, and finally breaking out into a small universe to kill a lich priest who believed in chaos, the body of the stone had already reached the time limit, how could he have time to listen to him say that he had some or nothing, and directly and rudely interrupted, no matter how noble the other party's identity was, and threatened:
"Give you ten minutes to make it clear, if you can't finish it, I'll pull out the dagger and leave."
Where did Amanam Horton, who was extremely noble in his lifetime, encounter such a rough person, who was choked to death, so he had to make a long story short.
With his concise narrative, everything falls into place, and some of the questions that plague the stone are answered.
As the Tomb King said, he was a priest-king in the Nehekhara city-state of Lebaras thousands of years ago, and participated in the "War of the Seven Kings" that overthrew Nagash's rule.
For some reason, after the war he left Nekhkala and went north with his legions on an expedition to the frontier prince's domain, where he was stationed, and even his own mausoleum pyramid was built in the mountains of the edge of the world.
Like other priest-kings, Amanam Horton was mummified after his death and slept forever on the golden throne awaiting the day of his resurrection.
Due to his distance from Nehekhara, he was not directly awakened by Nagash's "Great Ritual of the Dark Necromancy", but hundreds of years later, by a strange lich priest.
The lich priest who suddenly appeared was Karitaman, but it was not a good thing, and when Amanam Horton woke up, he found that a "soul-binding dagger" had been inserted into his forehead, and his soul had been sealed inside.
Not only that, but Kalitaman also used a mysterious ancient book to arrange a never-before-heard of super circle in the pyramid, using the soul of the Tomb King as a sacrifice to free himself from the cursed immortality of the Lich Priest and become a true immortal Tomb Emperor.
The process was very long, and in order to save time, or to not want to remember this humiliating past, Amanam Horton did not elaborate, anyway, his soul has been trapped in the dagger, year after year, gradually dissipating.
Karitaman was lying asleep in the Soul Gathering Coffin behind him, occasionally waking up to maintain the circle.
I don't know how long it took, but Amanam Horton felt his consciousness getting weaker and weaker, when a young strange mage came to the pyramid.
He used a spell to awaken the sleeping Kalitaman and the circle was already complete, and the Lich Priest could even directly drive some of the undead and their souls in the pyramid, including various low-level skeleton warriors and tomb guards.
From the conversation between the two, it was learned that this young mage should be from an ancient organization that believed in some Chaos Evil God, and Karitaman was also inextricably linked to this evil god, and all this seemed to be planned.
Karitaman gave the young mage a task, asking him to go outside and attract a large number of intelligent creatures to the Valley of the Dead Tombs, humans, dwarves, greenskins, any race, he needed the souls of a large number of creatures to speed up the completion of the circle, after a long wait, he could not wait to pick the fruits of the final success.
However, for Amanam Horton, this is the final end, or to put it another way, it is also a relief, but I didn't expect that after Karitaman left the pyramid yesterday, it was not him who returned, but an orc who could speak Nehekhara.
For the Tomb King, who thought he was doomed, it was a gift from the gods...... No, it's an angel of God.
PS: The end of the previous chapter has been changed slightly.