Midsummer, midnight, in the south of the Celtic continent, a cosy town.

A huge, red moon shone on the land, turning everything into eerie colors.

Winding cobblestone paths, walls crawling with vines, rows of houses huddled together, layered on top of each other.

The intermittent estrus howls of male cats echo at midnight.

The old horses in the stables are leisurely munching on the hay, and the workers who are in charge of cleaning up the garbage are laboriously scooping up the charred horse manure with shovels and throwing it onto the wooden carts, raising white smoke.

The streets that crowded during the day are now only drunk drunkards in the corners. In the dream, a breeze blew, blowing the empty bottle beside the drunkard and rolling gently.

The whole world was silent, so quiet that even the sound of rats running around could be heard clearly.

In the midst of this silence and peace, a dark shadow touched the town.

Immediately after, there was a commotion in the distance. More precisely, mixed with the noisy sound of horses' hooves and armor.

Residents who had not yet fallen asleep pushed open the balcony doors and looked out from afar.

Soon, a crowd of knights with torches poured into the remote town, and the entire inhabitants of the town were overjoyed by the sound of horses' hooves. They lit the oil lamps, opened the windows, hid in the room and peeked out, and the more daring ones simply pushed the door and walked out.

Soon, both sides of the street were filled with people.

The old mayor, who was on crutches, staggered out and saluted respectfully.

"Is there anything you can do?"

"We're chasing a lich! someone saw him running in!" the knight in silver armor, dressed in silver armor and wrapped like a can, casually said a word and ignored the old mayor, turned back to raise his sword and shouted at his subordinates, "Listen, we must take down the lich before the others arrive!"

"Yay——!" all the knights cheered as if they had won the victory, and quickly dispersed to search around.

"Wouldn't it be a lich, would it?

"Is it the one on the mountain?"

"Oh my God......"

The townspeople were apprehensive.

At night, the whole town was in a commotion.

Lich, awakened from corpses.

Judging from the appearance, it is actually a skeleton, like the skeleton soldiers at the lowest level of the undead clan.

The difference is that skeleton soldiers wear rudimentary armor, use broken shields and knives, and are often unconscious. The lich likes to wear a cloak and hold a wand, not only has autonomous consciousness, but can also summon and manipulate other undead creatures, is the existence at the top of the pyramid of the undead, a frequent visitor to countless human novels and plays, treacherous, cunning, evil, leading the army of the undead, powerful enough to rival angels and demons.

However, the Lich, who will be chased by a group of knights at the moment, is a little different from what people think......

In the corner about twenty meters behind the Silverarmoured Knight, no one was looking, and a piece of sackcloth was shivering.

"What's going on? if the land already has an owner, they should send me a letter explaining that they don't need to do it directly......" Gray the Lich felt aggrieved.

The fat black cat, which had just been howling on the balcony, jumped down, swayed into the sackcloth, and began to lick its fur lazily: "You're the new lich on the east hill, aren't you?"

The fat gourd-shaped figure, with a small face and a pitch-black coat, somehow had two more white spots on the lips, and they were a little crooked. Judging by the appearance alone, this black cat is really ugly.

"It's me! I've just moved to the mountains to the east. You are...... A ghost attached to a cat? Oh my God! If I had known that there was an undead neighbor here, I would have come to visit!" Gray was excited to see a ghost attached to a black cat, which is rare in the underworld. However, after a little silence, Gray was suddenly lost again: "But it looks like I'm going to move away......"

"I know it's all about it in the market today. The black cat licked its paws and said, "You dug up the ancestral grave of the Gruglu family, and they informed the church that they were going to tie you up and burn you to death." ”

"The ancestral grave of the Gruglu family?oh, I remember, I was looking for some bones to assemble skeletons. You know, a lich's castle has to be guarded by a few guards, otherwise it's too unusual. Speaking of those bones, it's really good, some of them haven't seen any cracks, and I really don't understand why they should bury such good things in the ground. Wait a minute...... You say they're going to burn me because of this?"

"Isn't that enough to burn you?"

"But I'm dead. ”

Cold field for three seconds.

"I mean, they're going to crush you to powder!

"Well, I didn't know if they already had owners before I dug up those bones, I was wrong, I can return them if I need to. The two dark red soul fires in the lich's eye sockets were a little weaker, indicating that he was even more depressed.

"That's not the question, don't you know what it means to desecrate the dead?"

"Blasphemy of the dead?"

"Even if you don't dig up the grave of your ancestors, they will burn you because you are a lich!" said the black cat viciously.

However, instead of being frightened, Gray the Lich was bent into a question mark by a pair of dark red flames.

Holding his forehead, the black cat sighed helplessly.

......

On the other side, the angry knights had begun to knock on doors, going up to almost every corner and stabbing them twice.

"Have you seen a lich? about that tall, wearing a black cloak. ”

"Nope. ”

"Did you see a lich? ”

"Nope. The residents of the town shook their heads one by one, and more of them leaned on the windowsill on the second floor and looked down, watching the bustle.

"Hurry up and search! Hurry up! Don't let go of any corner!"

......

In a dark corner in the distance, the black cat quietly retracted its outstretched head back into the sackcloth.

"Where are you from?"

"Underground. ”

"Then I advise you to hurry back to the earth, where the land of the dead is made. In the surface world, you will definitely be burned to death. Those knights are fretting because they have no rival to show their bravery, and you have come at the right time, even better if you can kidnap a princess or two. ”

"Kidnapping the princess, what is the princess?" the lich Gray continued to have a question mark in his head.

"The princess is the king's daughter...... Well, you certainly don't know what the king is, the king is the great lord. And daughters, damn it! Something like a lich that has no children knows what a daughter is...... I want to die talking to you!"

"You're dead. ”

"I, I said I wanted to die...... That's what I mean when I talk to you so badly!Oh my God, I've been moldy for eight lifetimes, how could I meet such a lich!" The black cat is all blown up.

"Why do you feel bad talking to me?"

"Stop, stop! Off topic! I just told you to get back to the ground. ”

"No, I can't. The lich replied decisively.

"Why?" Black Cat hadn't heard of the Lich who didn't want to go underground, it was a lich's paradise, and even the church couldn't do anything about them.

"Because the Great Lich Brutus is hunting me around, and is going to catch the hellhound that he has broken down and boiled bone broth to feed him. Gray the Lich said helplessly.

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that the Lich's ancestral grave was dug by himself, if he remembered where his ancestral grave was after becoming a Lich. ”

"I hid in his lab to learn spells, you know, I just awakened to become a lich, and it would be a shame not to learn some spells. ”

"That's stealing a teacher...... How long have you been hiding? ”

"Uh...... About 150 years. I took the skeleton he had used for ornamentation and hung myself in front of his bookshelf. Gray said, pointing to the tab he had attached to the top of his head.

The black cat laughed at once: "One hundred and fifty years...... Can this kind of time also be described as 'just'? You really have a way, can't you see that your stinky bones are still smart, didn't he find your undead aura?"

"Even cockroaches in the underground world have the breath of the undead, where can he tell who is with whom. And at the beginning I had a very light breath, but then my breath became stronger, and I learned to control it. ”

"Why did he find out later?"

"Because he was going to turn me into a skeleton soldier, and when he cast a spell, he found out that I was a lich. It was an unbearable experience, and Gray remembered the way the Great Lich Brutus was furious when he found out, and the whole room was shaking. Fortunately, he was still a relatively civilized lich, and he just had a few Hell Knights beat Gray and throw him out of the window of the underground castle.

That was just the beginning, though, and when he found out something else, he wasn't so "nice" to Gray anymore.

"It looks like you're really desperate. The black cat quietly backed away, turning to slip away.

"Where do you want to go?" Gray cradled a cyan flame on his outstretched finger bone, grabbing the back of the black cat's neck.

"Damn, am I still going to be with you? Bad luck is contagious!" The black cat struggled hard, but the ghost couldn't resist the lich.

"I need a guide right now. ”

"That's your business!" the black cat decisively refused.

"Okay, I'm still missing a fresh soul to refine my new wand. ”

"Well, actually being a guide is a good job, and I've loved being a guide since I was a kid. The black cat quickly changed his mind: "Tell me, where are you going now?"

......

There was another sound of horses' hooves, and in the distance, another group of cavalry had entered the city.

"Damn, they found it so quickly, how did they know the lich was here?" The silver-armored knight at the head looked resentful.

The men around him were stunned.

In times of peace, well-fed knights needed a boast to please the ladies of the nobility. Burn a lich, that's enough for them to blow for a lifetime. However, the knights of the entire continent are rushing here, and it is not certain who will brag about this bull in the end.

The new cavalry walked slowly along the main road, until they approached, and the onlookers and the silver-armored knights couldn't help but be stunned.

At the head is a petite aristocratic girl. With long silver-white hair tied in a ponytail, a pretty and delicate face, riding a tall horse, and wearing a simple armor. He also had a sword at his waist.

Walking to a distance of about five meters from the Silver-Armored Knight, the girl glanced around, raised her hand slightly, and motioned for her attendants to stop.

Turning her face sideways, she said something to one of the knights walking beside her, and the knight rode up to the crowd, lifted his mask, and showed a beard.

"What are you doing?"

The silver-armored knight's eyes flickered, and he hurriedly said, "It's nothing, we're ...... Looking for something. ”

"Looking for something?" Looking at the torches around him, the knights armed to the teeth, the knights' servants, and the onlookers, the bearded knight who came to negotiate snorted and laughed: "It's so late, so many people are looking for something?"

"Yes, it's easier to find more people. The Silver Knight laughed awkwardly.

The old mayor on the side couldn't stand it anymore, walked forward on crutches, and saluted respectfully: "Your Excellency Knight, we are chasing a lich. ”

"Hu, nonsense, there's no lich here!" the knight in silver armor pointed his sword at the old mayor.

The bearded knight used the spear in his hand to point the silver-armored knight's sword at the old mayor and gently picked it away: "There are lichs here?"

"Yes. ”

"No, no lich!"

The middle-aged man with two beards and curly hair beside the girl, who was thin and well-dressed, whispered, "Miss Irene, no matter what happens, we'd better not get involved." ”

The girl named Irene immediately rode her horse and led her men forward, and when she staggered past the bearded knight, she whispered: "It's none of our business whether there are lichs or not, as long as it has nothing to do with us." Find a hotel to rest. ”

"Yes!"

From beginning to end, there was not a trace of expression on the noble girl's face.

The Silver-Armored Knight breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't understand how there could be people in this world who weren't interested in lichs, it was a good thing that the other party didn't rob them.

Turning his head, he shouted to his men around him, "Keep searching!

"Yes——!"

The purge continued.

......

Gray, who was completely indifferent to what was happening outside, quietly shifted a more comfortable posture and said solemnly to the black cat: "I intend to stay in the surface world, the great lich Brutus has carved a mark on my soul, as soon as I return to the underground world, he will find out." ”

"You're going to mess around in the surface world, don't be kidding. Are you stupid to be a church? They won't spare a single lich. ”

"That'...... Is there any way I can not be seen by others?" asked Gray earnestly.

"Don't you have to let people see you?" said the black cat, after a moment's thought, "pretend to be the knights who are out there hunting you?, they are like moving tin cans, and if necessary, they can keep their faces from anyone." ”

"Alright, then I've decided to be a knight!" declared Gray the Lich.

The black cats were shocked: "Are you stupid? knights need to be able to unleash holy arts! and you're a lich!"

"You mean this?" said Gray the Lich, holding out his fingers, a silvery-white glow dancing from his fingertips.

The black cat was dumbfounded.

Two knights rode by, looking around.

Gray was so frightened that he quickly extinguished the light on his fingertips.

When they were far away, the black cat said excitedly, "Oh my God, I saw a lich who can use holy arts! Is this what you stole from that great lich Brutus? The church would have gone crazy if it knew!"

"There's nothing strange about that, a lot of lichs do. Gray the Lich showed him a bone ring engraved with a spell in his hand: "I accidentally took it from Brutus's study, this energy is the most effective way to smash the undead." ”

Lichs don't know holy arts? That's a complete misunderstanding. To be sure, they don't use holy magic when fighting humans, just as they don't throw curses at each other during a Lich Civil War.

"I found out that you are not only stealing, but also stealing, and you are a complete thief. Hahahaha, now I can understand the anger of the great lich Brutus, you must have stolen more than this. ”

Gray the Lich chuckled, "Alright, what should we do now?" Oh, by the way, what do knights usually do?"

"How do I know? I'm not a knight. Hahahaha, maybe you can go to the bookstore in front and buy a copy of "A Knight's Guide to Becoming a Talent" or something, I think they are still selling this book today. You madman!"

"And this kind of book? Great! I need this now!" Gray cheered, the luckiest thing he'd ever had ever had. It seems that becoming a knight is not that difficult for a lich.

The black cat felt that his eyes were black.

What day is it? There's a whole bunch of knights out there, and he's going to talk to a lich about how to be a knight?

Not far away, two heavily armed knights who had just walked by were pulling the reins and looking back.

"I just heard cheers, do you see that sackcloth moving?"

"See. The other knight pulled out his sword at his waist with a bang.