Rhapsody of the Skeleton – Chapter 14

Ch 14: Raging Stray Bones

The days passed one by one. For the villagers, they had become accustomed to the presence of a jade bone in the village.

After the village chief had poured out all the few understandings of the Skeleton Continent in his mind like beans from a bamboo tube, Yun Ming completely lost interest in communicating with the village chief and began to stay in the Soul Well House all day long.

Yun Ming was lying in the bone tub, and a hint of enjoyment appeared on his face bones. The face bones of the skeletons are a magical thing. Unlike the bones of other parts, the face bones have a certain degree of elasticity and flexibility.

The humans of Fengyuan Continent thought that skeletons were expressionless monsters, but this was not the case. Although the face bones of skeletons were not as flexible as the facial muscles of humans, they could roughly express the emotions of the skeletons.

The reason why Yun Ming was so enjoying himself was not that he was taking a hot bath. The bone tub was filled with soul water. Thinking of what Weisenter had said about soul water being able to replenish bone energy, Yun Ming didn’t know what bone energy was, but Yun Ming knew that soul water was good for him.

So Yun Ming asked the village chief to find a bone tub, filled it with soul water, and prepared to try it out. The feeling was really good. Unlike the strong stimulation brought by absorbing essence souls and living souls, soul water gave Yun Ming a kind of ease and comfort like a spring breeze.

The feeling brought by the soul water slowly disappeared. Yun Ming looked at the soul water that had become transparent and was about to get up when a man broke in. Yun Ming recognized him. He was called A Qing. He had knelt in front of Yun Ming to protect his wife and children. A Qing said out of breath, “There are stray bones coming to our village. The village chief asked me to find… Lord.”

Yun Ming did not refuse. Not to mention that he had used other people’s soul orbs before, Weisenter had ordered Yun Ming to protect this village before leaving, and he had also used several tubs of soul water these past few days. Yun Ming moved his whole body bones and walked towards the village entrance with A Qing.

Just like when Yun Ming first came, the young people were standing in front with bone sticks, blocking the old people and children behind them. However, this time, standing opposite them were not just a war bone and a jade bone, but a wolf-shaped battle bone and hundreds of subordinates.

“Brothers, kill all these humans and enjoy the baptism of living souls!” The wolf-shaped battle bone roared. Several jade bones took the lead, and hundreds of stray bones surrounded the village. This scene frightened the villagers. They almost threw away the weapons in their hands and turned around to run.

A skeleton came out of the village, followed by a human. The skeleton was carrying a huge bone stick. In contrast, the skeleton’s figure appeared very thin.

This “thin” skeleton was Yun Ming. On the way, he heard A Qing say that there was a war bone and hundreds of subordinates in this group of stray bones. Yun Ming decided to give up soul devouring and picked up a large bone stick. The effect was not bad. His appearance shocked these stray bones.

The wolf-shaped battle bone observed this jade bone and determined that it was a stray bone, because most of the stray bones’ bone techniques were useless. Therefore, many stray bones were accustomed to using this common bone stick as a weapon. However, seeing that this jade bone was quite “clean,” it should be a little stronger than his own jade bone.

With his sights on the jade bone, the wolf-shaped battle bone said, “Jade Bone, be my subordinate. I will take you to enjoy the living souls of humans and let you advance to war bone soon.”

In order to take in this jade bone, the wolf-shaped battle bone made a huge “promise.” How could an upper-level skeleton make a promise to a lower-level skeleton? He believed that this jade bone would be very happy to become his subordinate. At that time, he would be able to enjoy an extra share of “soul tribute,” the wolf-shaped battle bone thought.

Hearing that the wolf-shaped battle bone wanted to take Yun Ming as a subordinate, the villagers became even more restless. Yun Ming was now their only hope. Once Yun Ming became a subordinate of the wolf-shaped battle bone, they would only have the fate of waiting for death today.

Only the village chief was slightly calmer. He knew that Yun Ming was the lower jade bone of that ox-shaped strong bone and would not agree to the wolf-shaped battle bone.

But he was only a jade bone. Could he beat hundreds of stray bones? The village chief thought uneasily.

Yun Ming did not care about what the wolf-shaped battle bone said at all. After coming out of the village, Yun Ming observed this group of so-called “stray bones.” It seemed that the village chief was right. The stray bones were born in the wild and had not participated in any wars, or even had any real battles. They had completely relied on soul water to get to where they were today, so the evolved bone techniques were also like chicken ribs.

Even the bones on their bodies could not compare with the military bones that crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Looking closely at the wolf-shaped battle bone’s body, the black did not completely cover it, and there were still small spots. Those jade bones and white bones also had the same phenomenon.

Moreover, with such a powerful upper war bone as Weisenter, how could Yun Ming be willing to become a lower jade bone of a stray bone.

Inadvertently, Yun Ming’s heart revealed disdain for the stray bones. In fact, this was very normal. Skeletons were naturally warlike and naturally had a kind of worship for the strong. Whether it was the “bone snatching” storm that Yun Ming saw when he first became a white bone, or the change in the attitude of the surrounding skeletons after winning three gambling fights in a row, all of this could prove this point.

The military bones in the army naturally looked down on these stray bones that grew up relying on soul orbs. Even if the army was expanding and needed to replenish soldiers, they would not consider stray bones.

Seeing that Yun Ming did not agree to him, the wolf-shaped battle bone was very angry. He had already made such a big promise, but this jade bone did not agree to him? Thinking about it again, it was not easy to encounter such a good jade bone. It would be a pity not to take him in.

The wolf-shaped battle bone said again, “Jade Bone, become my subordinate or die with these humans.” The wolf-shaped battle bone decided to show his majesty. Now he should obediently become his subordinate, the wolf-shaped battle bone thought secretly.

Yun Ming still did not care about what the wolf-shaped battle bone said. He said to A Qing behind him, “Tell Old Hank, it is impossible for me to solve all hundreds of stray bones. Leave the war bone and jade bones to me, and the rest will depend on yourselves.”

After a few days of “getting along,” Yun Ming knew that the villagers called the village chief Old Hank. A Qing relayed Yun Ming’s words to Old Hank. Old Hank glanced at Yun Ming and knew that there was no other way but to believe this jade bone. He notified the villagers that regardless of men, women, old or young, even if they could only hold the smallest bone stick, they had to stay and protect the village together.

The wolf-shaped battle bone was now extremely angry. Not only did the stupid jade bone not agree to him, but he also colluded with the humble humans to resist him. Seeing a hint of mocking smile appear on Yun Ming’s face bones, the wolf-shaped battle bone knew that he had been played by a jade bone. He roared loudly, “Kill this damn jade bone and these humans for me!”

The upper war bone spoke, and the lower jade bones naturally carried it out. Moreover, this group of stray bones had been craving living souls for a long time. In the past, they had only snatched soul orbs and soul water from skeleton villages.

It was not easy to encounter a human village. If it were not for a jade bone suddenly appearing, they would have rushed up long ago. The stray bones had already begun to get excited, vowing to kill a few more humans and advance as soon as possible.