Something's wrong with my undead

Chapter 573: Eight hundred years old?

"So you went down this road and found him?"

After hearing the whole story, Buzina looked at the downward stairs in confusion.

"right."

Teacher Xia nodded.

"Pfft-"

Olaf couldn't help laughing.

"You're still laughing!"

Buzina was furious.

Although she was awakened by the beating, her body recovered slowly and the copper dragon had dealt her a heavy blow, so her external injuries could not be healed in a short while. Now she could only hold up a swollen head, which looked extremely funny.

The two players were also laughing, and they never stopped.

But the advantage of a skeleton is that even if it laughs like a pig behind his back, its face remains unmoved.

But Ottonohe is a gorilla, and a grin does not necessarily mean a smile - at least that's what Buzina can convince herself.

So Olaf suffered.

He could only try not to look at the other person's face.

But he really couldn't help it.

That’s right, don’t look at her face…

He suddenly had an idea, and took out a hood from the void bag and threw it to the other party.

"You'd better wrap it up."

This is Teacher Xia’s luggage, originally packed in the floating city. It is a decorative item that is of no use but must be worn when hiding.

He didn't care what he would look like when he was discovered, he just liked the feeling of "pulling off his cloak and having sex with his mother when he was cornered", especially the feeling of pulling off the cloak, which was so cool.

He prepared several items for this purpose, but he didn't expect them to come in handy here.

Buzina wanted to refuse, but she heard a thudding sound next to her. She turned around and saw Ottonoe pounding the floor with laughter.

After Olaf suffered from PTSD, she also suffered from the Copper Dragon's PTSD. She could only glare at the other party hatefully and then wrap herself up.

"I advise you not to believe everything he says."

She carefully maintained her position, making sure there was a wall of people between herself and Ottonohe as a buffer zone.

"If the runes hiding the secret passage in the Valley of Contemplation could deceive the dragons passing through here, then with his level of spellcasting, it would be impossible for him to take so long to complete the portal."

——Yeah? A series of tricks! ?

Teacher Xia immediately turned his head to look at Ottonoeh, the dagger in his hand eager to try.

Good man, are you still trying to play the game of pretending to be stupid with me?

"You actually have a surprise that I don't know about?"

"Don't, don't misunderstand!"

Ottonoeh also became anxious and waved his hands and retreated.

His wound from the explosion had not healed yet, so he had no chance of beating the two. Moreover, the blow he had received before still frightened him, and he had an uncomfortable feeling as if he was being harshly controlled.

"The secret runes here were left by Hermonia. They have nothing to do with me!"

"Hermonia?"

Hearing this name, Buzina's confusion was mostly gone, and she was surprised: "Hermonia, the outstanding 'Soul Weaver' 700 years ago, but later became a traitor? She is still alive?"

"It's her." Ottonohe said honestly, "She is the one on the other side of the portal. I was planning to take you to see her. After all, I don't really understand the stories you told me about Tas, Nis, Luku, and Kara, but she must understand them all."

"If it's Hermonia, then that makes sense."

Buzina murmured, "No wonder she suddenly became a traitor after being grounded. So she must have discovered this unstable space node below in the Stream of Meditation, and then this road was created... Wait, then she escaped by teleporting through the node instead of a stable portal? Oh my God, she is so brave. The space is so unstable..."

"See, I told you she's amazing." Ottonohe agreed proudly, "Not to mention going from here to the bottom of the Misty Reef without a portal, she can even go to land. And there's no portal either. She said we'd definitely be discovered that way, so it's better to go through the void!"

Hearing this, Buqina couldn't help but look the gorilla up and down, and said hesitantly:

"How old are you...?"

"More than 800 years old, what's wrong?"

"Ugh..."

Buzina covered her face in pain.

Every 500 years is a watershed for a dragon. After going through the stages of being a young dragon and a baby dragon, it is considered an adult at the age of one thousand.

She was only 2,000 years old, yet she was beaten up by a half-grown kid...

No, isn't this child growing too fast?

Da Huang was also surprised and said, "This guy is eight hundred years old? I would believe him if you said he was eighteen thousand!"

Teacher Xia: "Well-nourished sports students are like this. You may complain about them being old, but they don't complain about you being stunted!"

That's when Olaf discovered the blind spot.

He counted with his thick carrot-like fingers:

"So he was a traitor three to five hundred years ago... My God, Mother Earth, you Dragon Island people actually called an eight or nine-year-old child a 'traitor'? You are still human, not dragons?"

When they heard this, they immediately felt that it was not a dragon.

“No one knows about this.”

Buqina said helplessly:

"Dragon Island has never made public the age of each dragon, so no one cares about the age of 'Traitor Ottonoeh'. Perhaps it is because the long public basic education is too cold, so each dragon is used to being alone. We don't even care about the 'birthdays' of our compatriots. Only blood relatives or seniors and juniors at work who are in close contact will talk about these private topics... I'll go check that door."

As she said this, she stood up and walked downstairs, and the others quickly followed.

When she arrived in front of the portal, Buzina crossed her arms and thought for a while.

"Although you are not good at this, you have completed Hermonia's plan very well. She is a true genius. This door concealed itself with the help of the normal fluctuations of the void. No wonder it has never been discovered..."

"Yeah, I told you she's awesome!" Ottonoeh was so happy that he felt like he was being praised.

Teacher Xia: "I don't know why he seemed normal before his age, but now he seems so wrong?"

Da Huang: "Eighty percent of the time, that was just pretending before. Now this is your true nature. How great! People don't pretend anymore and treat you as their own."

The two were chatting when Buzina suddenly activated the portal.

Its light suddenly became more dazzling than before, and it emitted a faint suction force, causing water wave-like patterns to appear in the surrounding space.

"what?"

Ottonohe widened his eyes and scratched his head hard.

"This... this... is not right... why..."

"I just activated it temporarily." Buzina said, "And it's based on your previous work. If you want to really perfect it, it will take at least half a month."

It would have been better if she didn't explain. After her explanation, Ottonoeh became even more withdrawn.

Half a month? He originally planned to complete the project within five years...

"You guys go first." Buqina looked towards Teacher Xia. "Because it is forcibly activated, it can't last too long. It will go out after the transmission. And for a large unit like a dragon, one is enough."

"What about you?" asked Teacher Xia.

Buzina shook her head. "I have to stay here. If I am found missing, I will be considered a traitor. Dragon Island will be under temporary martial law, which will be detrimental to your investigation. Besides, things haven't come to that point yet. Of course, I also need to spend some time repairing this portal."

Da Huang: "Well, she still has fantasies about Dragon Island, and doesn't want to say it so firmly."

Teacher Xia sighed: "After all, it's her house. It would be strange if she could be persuaded with just a few words... Then what should we say? Let's go first?"

Da Huang: "How else can we say goodbye? We can't just say 'You're awesome', right?"

Teacher Xia: "Okay, okay."

"Then take care of yourself."

After saying that, Teacher Xia looked at Ottonohe.

The latter consciously rushed into the portal first, and then his figure was pulled in by the light inside the portal.

After confirming that this was the same special effect of the door they remembered, the two of them took Olaf and went through with confidence.

As the transmission ended, the dazzling light on the door suddenly flickered, like a light bulb with poor contact, and soon dimmed completely with a "crackling" sound.

Buzina pulled off her hood, revealing a bruised face with complicated expressions in her eyes.

She shook her head to clear her mind, then slowly moved her senses towards the door.

……

Wrapped in the light, everything in front of me passed by quickly, just like the nearby scenery when a train is moving forward at high speed.

But even so, when you look into the distance you can still see the seabed bathed in sunlight, swaying seaweed and schools of fish swimming around.

But the scenery quickly turned gray, as if arriving at the depths of the ocean, with the sunlight blocked by layers and only dark purple mist filling the sea.

In just over ten seconds, the three of them crossed most of the Dragon Island group and arrived under the foggy reef in the southwest corner.

They seemed to be "vomited" out by the portal, and the three people and the monkey were piled on the ground.

Ottonoeh exerted force and heard a cracking sound under his butt.

Dahuang's legs were broken by his big butt.

If Teacher Xia hadn't seen the situation and used Shadow Shuttle to hide to the side, he would have been in serious trouble as well.

"Ah, I'm sorry..."

The red copper monkey scratched his head and climbed up embarrassedly.

At this time, a bone repair spell flew from a distance and landed on Da Huang, and his bones, which were as mottled as old tree bark, healed almost instantly. Under the vigilant gaze of the three people, a woman who looked like a wizard walked out of the cave next to them.

After seeing her outfit, both players were stunned for a few seconds.

It wasn't because he was a stranger, but because he was dressed like a researcher from Veritas, and in the most retro style.

In the game "AGE", only the magic profession has the so-called "version suit/uniform", which is simply the standard robes of the Truth Institute from different eras.

Moreover, unlike most MMORPGs with exaggerated shapes and complicated decorations, there are only a dozen or so sets of researchers' uniforms in the nearly thousand years of evolution. Just like the jerseys of a football club, as long as the main color scheme is locked, even the oldest version is highly recognizable.

This is the person in front of me.

Thanks to the appearance collection of many cloth armor players, the two easily recognized this "most classic researcher robe".

"Hermonia!"

Ottonoe ran up to her using his hands and feet and said excitedly:
"I'm telling you, we have an ally. This dwarf and his two puppets are really powerful!"

"You are hurt?"

Hermonia detected something wrong in the voice and slowly raised her body to pinch his chin.

"Open your mouth."

"what--"

Ottonoeh tilted his neck back and opened his mouth as if he was taking a nucleic acid test.

After taking two glances, Hermonia fell down again.

"Take half of the blue bottle of reagent from medicine box No. 4, fill it up with water, and hold it in your mouth without swallowing it."

"Oh."

Ottonohe turned and walked away, but suddenly turned back and said, "Then they—"

"I have a mouth of my own."

"Oh……"

After watching him leave, Hermonia looked at the three uninvited guests.

Her eyes fell on Da Huang in particular.

"Withered nature, pure dead air, extinguished spirits, neutralized shadows, the bones born from the mixture of these elements can still be reshaped by flesh and blood. If someone can make such a puppet, I'm afraid he can only be called a 'god', right?"

"You are awesome."

Dahuang gave the most sincere evaluation and was convinced.

Even though Hermonia was knowledgeable, she was stunned for a few seconds.

Firstly, I was surprised at the other party's way of communicating, and secondly, I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

"It's meant as a compliment. Please forgive me for his limited vocabulary," Teacher Xia added.

After saying this, he felt himself being enveloped by a powerful perception, at least at level eight, because he could not perceive anything higher.

The other party touched him fiercely like a pervert, penetrating every pore, as if he wanted to find out everything about him.

So he decisively turned on the shadow cloak to get rid of this perception, and his figure disappeared into the air.

"really……"

Hermonia nodded slightly:

"This kind of smooth shadow technique cannot be performed by a puppet... So who created you, or rather summoned you? You can't be the one sent by that false god to recruit me, right?"

Teacher Xia appeared behind her and asked, "Are you talking about Thanatos?"

Hermonia's eyelids twitched.

Not to mention that the location where the other party appeared made her feel uneasy, just calling the name of the God of the Underworld made her feel creepy.

She subconsciously glanced at the barrier of the shelter, then nodded.

"So that's it? Then why are you here?" she asked. "And there's a dwarf."

"We came here illegally!" Olaf replied in a muffled voice, "I'm here to ask Dragon Island for an explanation!"

Hermonia was slightly stunned: "Explanation? What explanation?"

Olaf: "The Dragon Island has never cooperated with the dwarves, and won't even tell us what a real 'dragon' is. Instead, it describes itself as a savage and primitive beast, and together with the Veritas people, it sells the myth of getting rich overnight to deceive the ignorant young dwarves! What on earth are you thinking!"

He recited again the words Ian had taught him.

It seems that this is the main task that Ian gave him.

However, this statement is still very effective now.

It simply and directly stated the group's position and let Hermonia know that at least they were not sent by Dragon Island.

——Since the other party knows what Dragon Island and the Veritas people have done together, it is impossible for them to still trust Dragon Island.

"So... you are from Cangqiong City?" she asked, "The Glowing Gold Alliance? People from the Temple? People from the Hodel family?"

"No." Olaf shook his head. "We are from Macalla."

"McKara!?"

Hermonia's originally calm face showed a strong disbelief:

"Is it the Macara who is sandwiched between the Whispering Forest and the Zanluo Plateau?"

Teacher Xia: "You actually know McCalla?"

"So who summoned you? Which Lord Seven? Or Gittier?" Hermonia asked anxiously.

...

Da Huang: "Damn, she knows a lot!"

Teacher Xia: "What can I say? Master Qi is dead!"

Da Huang: "Isn't George still alive?"

Teacher Xia: "Isn't he Sister Hui's puppet? Does this count?"

Da Huang: "Just tell me whether he is dead or not."

Teacher Xia: “Not dead.”

Da Huang: “That’s life.”

Teacher Xia: “That makes sense…”

...

Teacher Xia: "It was the staff of the local lord George who summoned us, using the legacy of Sai Weng."

Hearing this, Hermonia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the tense atmosphere that had originally shrouded the cave dissipated.

"Come with me, this is not a place to receive guests."

She turned and walked towards a cave.

……

In the simple reception room, Hermonia learned most of the details of Buchina's trip.

Of course, she also knew the current situation of "McKala" mentioned by the three people in front of her.

Everything made her feel deeply moved.

"Don't worry, that 'awake' compatriot won't be in trouble for the time being. If Alunas just asked her to stay in the Stream of Meditation, it was probably just to let her reflect, not for any other purpose."

"So what about you? Who are you?" asked Teacher Xia.

"I knew you would be curious." She smiled and said, "Besides Hermonia, I have another name. I'm not sure if you have heard of it, but you must know my last name... Iphigenia McDuck."

...

Da Huang: “What the hell?”

Teacher Xia: "What's going on?"

Da Huang: "Isn't Iphini the wife of the great lich Vega?"

Teacher Xia: "Fuck, are you also a plot fan?"

Da Huang: "What the hell is this drama? Isn't this the test question for Sister Hui and the rich woman when they were promoted in the Scar of Withering? We sang the Requiem outside, cleared all the monsters, and used our skills to wait for Vega's clone to show up, but this bitch finished the promotion ceremony for them, hid under the crack of the door, took a look, and ran away!"

After he said that, Teacher Xia remembered.

The test for Duoduo and Huihui is to reconstruct the memory fragments of the Archlich Vega and help him piece together the many details of the dividing line in his life.

In the end, they discovered that it was the McDuck family that separated the two and took away Vega and Ifini's research results - research on the void and void capsules.

This incident created a company and a person.

The former is Melvin's current industry, Opry Corporation.

The latter is the former great wizard and current great lich Vega.

But Iphini McDuck, an equally gifted researcher, is not mentioned in the story.

I didn't expect to meet you now...

No wonder she was wearing a retro researcher uniform.

and many more……

Teacher Xia was surprised:
"So you're a dragon? This is your human form? You merged with Ifini's soul???"

"Yes."

Hermonia, or Iphine, nodded:
"Technically, she merged with me."

(End of this chapter)