Chapter 234 Clues to the Skeleton Lord
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In Hobert's notebook, there was a signature of its previous owner: Valentine Victor.
More than a notebook, it was like a collection of clumsy ghost stories.
The content of the stories was very interesting to Hobert, such as something that happened in the deep mountains of Sivellaus County in the Kingdom of Loen.
In the deep mountains, there was a hunter who was very good at setting traps. Suddenly, from one day on, the prey he caught in the traps was always gnawed by some kind of beast.
But strangely, this experienced hunter couldn't tell from the bite marks what kind of beast had gnawed on his prey.
A few days later, when the hunter went to check the traps again, he found that his prey had just been gnawed not long ago, and he quickly locked onto the trail of the culprit along the bloodstains.
After chasing for about an hour or two, the hunter chased to the edge of a forest, and at this time the sky was gradually darkening.
In the deep mountains, the sun sets very quickly. As soon as the sun sets behind the mountaintop, the surroundings are like being covered with a layer of black gauze.
The hunter didn't intend to let the culprit go like this, and chased all the way in.
The moment he stepped into the forest, the hunter felt that the mountain wind inside was particularly cold, as if countless eyes were staring at him.
Just as the hunter was about to turn back, he found a towering tree with branches growing horizontally, and the canopy covered a large area.
The tree was hung with corpses, all of whom had been hanged. As the mountain wind blew, the corpses swayed in the wind.
The hunter was so frightened that he sat down on the ground. Just then, the corpses on the tree began to move. They raised their hands in unison, took off the nooses that had hanged them, and climbed down the tree nimbly, rushing towards the hunter.
Especially a skeleton, which moved very quickly, chasing in the front.
The hunter's desire to survive was ignited, and he ran until late at night before he could escape.
When Hobert was reading the contents of the notebook, he thought: If Fors saw this story, after her processing and rendering of the atmosphere, it would be a very good ghost story.
However, Valentine's wording and description were very bland, as if he was saying that he was having barbecue tonight, so the content was very interesting, but it was portrayed very clumsily by the owner of the notebook.
The key is that there was Valentine's exploration later. He didn't say a word about the exploration process, only leaving one sentence: Suspected sacrifice to a demon, multiple corpses reanimated, no Skeleton Lord found.
This immediately reminded Hobert of Dophis. Perhaps the "Gatekeeper" is like that, without any emotional fluctuations about everything around him when preparing for advancement.
There were as many as seven or eight similar ghost stories, and Valentine's footprints almost covered the entire Northern Continent.
Finally, in Colson County in the southeastern part of the Feynapotter Kingdom, Valentine discovered the real Skeleton Lord. He tried twice, but failed to kill the Skeleton Lord. The second time, he almost fell into the Skeleton Lord's ambush.
So Valentine returned to the Kingdom of Loen, wanting to ask his teacher for help.
The notebook ended here. Hobert could imagine that Valentine was attracted by the corpse of the Ancient Death God on his way back to Backlund, and eventually died in the stone chamber.
Hobert opened the map again. The map marked the location of the Skeleton Lord, but it didn't look like a Loen map. He put on his trench coat and went to a bookstore on the street to buy a map of the Feynapotter Kingdom, and compared it when he got back.
Sure enough, the map left by Valentine was a map of Colson County in the Feynapotter Kingdom.
Colson County is located between the Feynapotter capital, Feynapotter City, and the port city of Sivellaus, bordering the small country of Masin. The entire county is basically a continuous mountainous area.
Hobert nodded. In this kind of deep mountain and old forest, it is indeed easy for extraordinary creatures with territorial awareness, or undead creatures, like the Skeleton Lord to appear.
After confirming the location of the Skeleton Lord, Hobert folded the map, clipped it in the notebook, picked up his cane, and left a note for Fors and Xio, telling them not to leave dinner for him.
Then he jumped into a rental carriage and returned to his home in Empress Borough.
In the carriage, Hobert sighed, today's experience was really wonderful.
Just as he was thinking about this, his stomach grumbled twice. He then remembered that he was so busy looking at the spoils at noon, and then attracted by Rex's notebook, that he had forgotten to eat lunch.
When he returned home, he arrived just in time for the Christian family to have dinner. After Hobert sat down, he began to gobble it up.
Donna suspected: "Hobert, are you so poor now that you can't even afford to eat?"
Hobert took a sip of wine, and while using a fork to skewer a chicken wing for himself, he asked: "Why do you think so?"
"I heard that you offended all the gentlemen in Backlund in the last case, so..."
"So you think no one will come to me for lawsuits anymore?"
Donna nodded, and Tyron also stared at Hobert nervously, but Christian smiled and shook his head.
"That's not true. The people who come to me for lawsuits now are lined up until next month."
Hobert smiled and said: "I am now a 'well-known lawyer'! My savings are so much that it would scare you to death if I told you!"
"Tch~ Liar, your savings can't possibly reach 1,000 pounds."
Hobert almost got stabbed by the chicken wing bone: "Donna, can you be a little more ambitious? 1,000 pounds can scare you?"
Donna said seriously: "Of course it can, you must have robbed a bank, otherwise how could you have so much money?"
Hobert suddenly realized that mixing in the Beyonder circle is more profitable than robbing a bank! No wonder the official Beyonders have to catch the wild Beyonders when they see them.
Of course, the premise is that you have a "helper" like the "Nation of Disorder", otherwise it is easy to become someone else's wealth.
While arguing with his sister, Hobert finished dinner, and then followed Christian into the study.
Hobert asked Dophis to come in together. After closing the door of the study, he began to recount the process of exploring the ruins today.
Of course, Hobert didn't explain some of Mr. Azik's words and deeds.
After hearing that there was the corpse of the Ancient Death God inside, Dophis's eyes lit up, making it difficult to maintain the state of a "dead person".
Christian said: "In that case, the person who explored the ruins with you should be at least a Sequence 3!"
To be able to suppress the Black Hound Spirit Beast so easily, he must be at least a Sequence 3.
In fact, Hobert still made some "processing". If Christian knew that Azik treated the Black Hound Spirit Beast like a servant, Christian would definitely think that the angel had some ulterior motives. Otherwise, if the other party was an angel, he might not even look at a Sequence 7, so how could he get to know Hobert?
Hobert pretended to be confused and said: "He told me that he is only a Sequence 4."
Christian shook his head. Knowing such a "saint" was Hobert's opportunity, and he didn't intend to interfere too much.
Finally, Hobert revealed the clues about the Skeleton Lord, but he found that when he mentioned that the Skeleton Lord was in the Feynapotter Kingdom, Christian and Dophis's faces changed.
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