Chapter 155 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

There were about five legendary creatures that lived around the Ashes Wood and surrounding area.

Snow Elephant King in the far north of Mountains of Barrenness; the Arctic Tyrant of Dragon-roar Town; the Skeleton Devourer in Peace Swamp; Shadow Devil; and Greg the Death Knight.

The first three had a fixed territory, but the latter two didn’t. The Shadow Devil at least had a rough activity area, but the Death Knight had nothing; it went around the Ashes Wood without aim.

There was not only one adventurer that once got in touch with him, up close. Although the Death Knight was a death soul, it didn’t possess the violent and ferocious qualities of a normal death soul. He only held his head, rode on his skeleton horse that only had bones, and murmured, “Who am I?” He asked these sort of philosophical questions all day.

However, meeting him was definitely an unhappy experience because he would pester every person that he met. He asked confusing questions. Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going? What is life? What is true success? What is the value of a human? And so on…

His questions didn’t cause pain in one’s body, but they were questions that no one could answer. In addition, his whole body was bandaged with strong, death-divine light. If a commoner was touched by divine light, they would be terrified. Even those courageous adventurers would be frightened if they were to stay long enough in the death-divine light. Under such circumstances, who would have enough strength to think about such questions?

Hence, the outcome in the end was mostly these unlucky people who finally broke down under the double attack, mentally and physically. Every one of them fainted on the ground, foaming at the mouth. Many of them even lost part of their memories, and some even faced after effects: when they heard people asking similar questions later they would have epileptic fits.

Of course, some of those who had guts and weren’t afraid of death would be angry out of embarrassment due to those questions, and draw their swords at each other. In the end, needless to say, the death knight didn’t like to resolve problems with violence; but that didn’t mean that he couldn’t. Plus, there were not many stronger than him, at least in the main realm.

Sui Xiong was reminiscing on the information and couldn’t help but find it funny.

The Death Knight is such an interesting character!

He flew around in the air above the Ashes Woods to find the shadow that was wandering around alone. Not knowing if it was because that he was unlucky, he only found the Death Knight after almost half a month.

It was already a dark night with no moon and no stars, and the snow was falling. Sui Xiong noticed a pile of snow that shook and shattered. Out from it came a skeleton warhorse, and above on horseback, a knight wearing old armor.

It was empty above the knight’s neck but his left hand was carrying something round. Looking it carefully, Sui Xiong saw it was a helmet; a closer look revealed there was a skull inside.

“Could it be the large-sized skeleton soldier?”

Sui Xiong whispered curiously, and slowly shrunk its body into average human size. He then slowly descended onto the ground.

Death Knight, of course, noticed him and raised his head to look up at the sky.

It was weird to bring it out; he didn’t have a skull, but when he turned around with his chest out, Sui Xiong could clearly feel that he raised his head to look at him. It was a very weird feeling.

“Hello; I am Void Mask, who lives nearby.” Sui Xiong flew before him and introduced himself while he smiled. “I was busy earlier, so I didn’t manage to greet the neighbors. Now that I am finally free, of course I’d like to visit. Speaking of which, Brother Death Knight, you stay in quite a remote area! I have been looking for you for a very long time!”

Death Knight was silent for a while and then asked, “Who am I?”

“I am here to greet you, not to discuss philosophical questions.”

“Who are you?”

“I am your neighbor.”

“Who am I?”

“Bro, do you have problem with your brain? Why do you keep going back and forth between these two questions?”

“Why do humans need to think?”

“…I am only passing by. I haven’t even washed up and brushed my teeth. Why not wait for me to wash up, and then we can go get some drinks and have some barbecue together? When we have enough drinks and food, we can discuss these questions again,” Sui Xiong smiled. “With a full stomach, lying next to a warm bonfire, discussing philosophy is like a lullaby. Ain’t that a good idea?”

“Why do we eat? Why do we have to discuss these questions after we have enough food and drink? Why do we sleep?”

Sui Xiong dared not answer. He didn’t want to be pestered by the crazy guy!

“…It’s late. I have another business appointment,” He said. “Then, I shall make a move first. When I’m done with the meeting, I will come and chat with you again.”

Then, he leapt and meant to soar up into the sky. But the Death Knight suddenly extended his right hand and held his fist towards him.

A ray of black light trailed from his hand that was only bone, tying Sui Xiong down firmly before he could flee. It connected them closely.