Mage Cyril and his party had left, apparently preparing to join up with the other arcane spears and continue their quest to hunt down the Great Lich who was the enemy of the Guild. They also took the zombie dragon's head by the way, so only Barrett was still with the huge headless corpse.

This chance encounter and battle was quite fruitful for him, not only did he get a whopping 433 points of soul energy, but also those two hard dragon teeth were already lying in his spatial ring.

But Barrett was still wandering around the headless corpse, trying to find more out of it.

He dug and dug on the dragon's body tirelessly, stinking and filthy all over his body, but he couldn't find anything more valuable.

Emerging from the dragon's body, he focused his gaze on the dragon's two hind legs, and the part behind it, the dragon's tail, seemed to have some value there.

It was certainly unrealistic to completely cut off the entire dragon's tail with some curly runic weapons, so Barrett only managed to cut off the thinnest tip of the tail with all his might.

The tip of the broken tail also has three clusters of bone spurs, a total of three clusters, which is also quite a good harvest.

Immediately afterward, our Lord Death Knight circled the corpse several times, and at the risk of mental exhaustion, he also took in the huge dragon claw that had been broken from his ankle, and then left the headless dragon body lying quietly on the ground in three steps and one look back.

After this, Barrett did not choose to continue his hunting journey, but prepared to return to the 'Eternal Body' for a short rest.

Bladed rune weapons cannot be completely repaired with a regular whetstone, and require a professional blacksmith to repair them. The dirty armor also needs to be cleaned and maintained, although Barrett has no cleanliness habits, but after he came out of the zombie dragon's body, he is already quite miserable.

The nightmare beast 'Carrot' struggled to let him ride, and even the little ghost of the spirit was far away from him.

And after returning this time, Barrett plans to follow the advice of Mage Cyril and try his luck with the blacksmith named 'Calvin' to see if he can help him make two dragon teeth into excellent weapons and update his equipment.

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The constructed raven continued to lead the way in the air, and Barrett harnessed the Nightmare Beast to follow. When Raven came down for the third time to replenish the Crystal, he finally returned to the Eternal Body, a territory controlled by the Magical Guild.

Along the way, he passed through watchtowers and fortresses, and saw a towering steel wall covered in runes and sheep's bone skulls, which was the stronghold of the Death Knights, Sharpfang.

After passing through the gates, guarded by two minotaur death knights armed with double-edged battle axes, Barrett made his way through the fortress. This is a very standard militarized fortress, and since the undead do not have as many desires as the living, the facilities inside the fortress are relatively simple.

Several enclosures are "keep" with skeletal horses and skeletal griffins. It's free for Death Knights affiliated with a stronghold, but outsiders like Barrett will need to pay a fortune to buy it.

A huge training ground. There are Death Knights in it at all times. When Barrett had just finished his studies with Ace Renee, he also went into the training ground to try his skills.

His current record is eight wins and seven losses, barely more than half of the winning percentage. But this is only because he lost more at the beginning, and later after gradually becoming familiar with the Death Knight's fighting style, he has won more and lost less.

Around the oversized training ground, there are several camps belonging to different teams of Death Knights. Although the undead do not need to rest, the death knights, as high-level undead creatures, still need a certain amount of personal space.

There were also blacksmith shops in the fortress, and there were as many as four or five of them. These blacksmith shops specialize in building equipment and war machinery for the Frontier Fortress, and Barrett has gone in specifically to ask if they can customize equipment, and these blacksmith shops have given a positive answer, but the most recent ones are still thirty years later.

Thirty years is nothing for the undead, but Barrett can't afford to wait.

In the center of the fortress is a magnificent magic tower, consisting of a main tower and two secondary towers. The main and secondary towers are simple triangular in shape, and the material is a special pure black alloy. There is no superfluous decoration in the magic tower as a whole, and there is no trace of splicing, as if it is made of this special alloy and cast as a whole, giving people a different kind of shock.

The top of the main tower burned with a dark green flame. The flame gave Barrett a similar feeling to the Nightmare Beast Carrot.

The guards at the entrance of the magic tower are not death knights, but two pure black void binders. Every time Barrett passed by, the two bound spirits would follow him with blurred faces that could not see their facial features, but they did not do this to the other Death Knights, which made Barrett feel a little uncomfortable.

When he went to look for Ace Rennie, the female death knight was not in the fortress, and seemed to be out on a mission, so Barrett had no choice but to go to the side of the magic tower and ask the quartermaster about the situation - he still didn't know how to get to the place called the 'Forest of Spine'.

After rounding a few zombies who were concentrating on cleaning the streets (Barrett could vaguely hear one of them humming a little song in his mouth), and a skeletal griffin that whizzed past but crashed to the ground not far away, Barrett finally arrived at Quartermaster Nelson's humble bone hut after a brief hello to a Death Knight who had fought at the training ground but had never given each other's names.

Nelson was a Death Knight, but unlike others of his kind, he didn't die in the prime of life due to some accident, but died completely.

According to Nelson himself, he had lived for more than 150 years before his death, so after transforming into an undead creature, he had an old and skinny face, as if he would fall if he touched it. I don't know what the necromancer or the lich master who chose to transform him back to life thought in the first place.

When Barrett pushed the door open, Nelson was sitting at the counter as usual, chin in one hand and a bone in the other, teasing the little skeletal dragon.

When Nelson saw Barrett, he threw the bone behind him. Then the young dragon fluttered its wings on the ground like a puppy, and happily chased after the bone.

After knocking over a pile of armor and shields, the skeleton broodling managed to bury its small body under the heavy equipment. It struggled desperately, successfully poking out its small head from the "steel swamp", and its jaw kept opening and closing, as if it was begging for Nelson for help. But the latter ignored this, and looked at Barrett happily.

"Hey, my new kind, what are you going to buy this time?" asked the quartermaster with a smile, "Old Nelson has everything here except fine wine." ”

"If that's the case, it's so sad. Barrett walked over to Nelson, and the little ghost beside him floated towards the skeletal dragon.

It was only after seeing this naughty little guy that the little ghost always begged Barrett to want to raise one too.

"Yes, it's really sad. The quartermaster nodded in agreement, "Old Nelson managed to live for more than a hundred years by relying on all kinds of fine wines." And now days like this are just a kind of torment. ”

"I have some good wine here, but now you and I can't enjoy it. Barrett pulled a bag of wine blends from the Spatial Ring and threw it at Old Nelson.

The emaciated quartermaster reached out and took the wine bag and subconsciously unscrewed the stopper. After a few seconds of froze, he tucked the bag into his shriveled lips and took a shallow sip.

Nelson held the wine in his mouth for a while before swallowing it slowly. Then he shoved the stopper tightly, shook his head, and said, "Well, what difference is there between wine and water for the dead? ”

The dead could not taste the taste of wine and food, and Barrett had tried it many times.

"At least you can recall that wonderful taste from your consciousness. He pushed back the wine bag he had handed over, "I'll give it to you as a souvenir." ”

"Memories are the most precious thing for us guys, and they're proof that we've ever existed, but they're always inevitably going to fade away. Old Nelson didn't refuse, he put the wine bag under the counter, "It looks like you're not going to buy anything today." ”

"I'd like to ask you for a place. Barrett asked directly, "Where is the Forest of Spine Thorns, is it far from here?"

"What are you going to do there?" said Old Nelson's face, one of curiosity.

"Get a blacksmith named Calvin and ask him to help build some equipment. Barrett replied.

"What? are you not satisfied with what Old Nelson is selling?" the quartermaster's tone was a little dissatisfied, "Old Nelson never deceives! Most of the Death Knights also came here to receive equipment, after all, the set of weapons and armor used by everyone in their lifetimes has generally been passed down to future generations. ”

"It's not that I'm not dissatisfied, it's just that I've met some guys with very hard bones. Barrett pulled out the runic weapon with the curly blade at his waist and showed it to the quartermaster.

Old Nelson carefully examined the blade of the rune weapon, "Win?"

Barry nodded, "It's not too dangerous, it's just a bit of a hassle to kill." ”

"This kind of fine steel material is actually quite good, even if you don't do rune casting, you can also resist the invasion of negative energy. However, it seems that you do need some better weapons. "The Forest of Spine is still a little far from the Fortress of the Fangs, which is also part of the Eternal Body, but it is a half-deserted place. The undead who live in it are basically abandoned by the guild because they have a bit of a problem with loyalty, and are only loyal to the fallen magic empire. ”

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