Chapter 1: Traveling to another world, I became a lich?
Squeak——
A sharp, teeth-grinding sound was heard, and a bony claw reached in from the slightly open door and shook the deformed wooden door desperately.
The old wooden door stuck in the door frame finally loosened. After a few harsh creaks and bangs, the troublesome wooden door finally swung open inward.
A skeleton stood blankly at the gate, like an evil ghost coming to collect debts.
——However, this skeleton is the real owner of this house.
It sighed slowly, bent down, picked up the two bags of soybeans that it had just thrown on the ground because they were in the way, and walked into the house grunting.
This strange scene could probably scare a few children to death, but for Jiang You, it was just an ordinary day since he came to this world.
Yes, Takumi Yuu is this skeleton. She is not a native of this world, but a time traveler, a soul that was both unlucky and fortunately drawn into this world by an unknown magical accident.
This is the thirty-first day since Jiang You traveled to this strange world, and also the thirty-first day since she turned into a living, magical skeleton.
Before crossing over, Jiang You was diagnosed with a severe congenital heart disease at birth. She had undergone seven or eight surgeries, but her condition hadn't improved. Even the slightest movement would cause her lips to turn purple, and she would feel dizzy and gasping for breath for a long time.
The good news is that her lips no longer turn purple, she doesn't feel dizzy or breathless when she moves, and she doesn't feel tightness in her chest or heartache. The bad news is that she no longer has lips, a brain, or a heart!
——Well, after becoming a skeleton, she inexplicably developed a new hobby: telling hellish jokes about undead skeletons.
In his previous life, Jiang You's family had been engaged in soy sauce brewing and seasoning-related industries for generations, and it can be said that they are an ancient soy sauce brewing family. The family's ancient recipe is said to have been passed down from the Ming and Qing dynasties and has been listed as an intangible cultural heritage.
However, Jiang You is neither the heir nor does he interfere much in the family business.
The doctor said she wouldn't live past the age of 25, a fact both her family and she had already accepted. Her cousin—the true heir to the family—even gave her precious ancestral recipes and various new products every day, asking her to memorize them, euphemistically saying, "If you travel through time, perhaps you can still live a good life by relying on these ancestral recipes."
Jiang You: "..." There's no need to start planning for what will happen after I die so early! And is time travel such a casual thing?!
Sure enough, on the eve of her 24th birthday, she felt dizzy when she got up and fell to the ground. When she woke up, she found herself lying in a strange sarcophagus. Not to mention her heart, there was not even a piece of flesh on her body.
...She suddenly turned into a skeleton!
At first, she thought she was involved in some weird scientific experiment, and she thought about how to tell her family for a long time... Well, it was like: "Hi~ everyone! Sorry! Did you forget to burn me? I seem to have turned into a skeleton and come back to life? o(*￣▽￣*)ブ"
She lay beside the sarcophagus for a long time before accepting this extraordinary fact, and she even rehearsed the conversation with her family in her mind several times. But after she climbed out of the sarcophagus and walked out of the room, she realized that this was not a funeral home or a cemetery, but a different world she had never seen before!
——Huh? You ask her why she can draw such arbitrary conclusions?
Of course it’s because there’s a giant dragon flying in the sky, and there’s a furry orc wearing leather armor, carrying weapons, and walking upright passing by the door!
Jiang You did not dare to appear in front of her neighbors. After all, she was a skeleton. In all the Western fantasy literature she had read, skeletons were related to demons, liches, witches, and black magic. They were definitely not good things.
"So, I've traveled to a magical Western fantasy world and become the villain?!"
She thought with good mental strength - this was probably one of the few benefits of heart disease: in order to prevent herself from dying too quickly, she had to remain calm and composed when encountering various things... Well, this was another joke from hell.
In order to figure out how she came to this unknown world and what kind of world it is, Jiang You first checked the cabin where she woke up and found many interesting clues.
First of all, this house is a half-stone, half-wood European-style building. It is a bit old, but it is not small in size. It has three floors above ground plus a basement. If it were in her past world, the price would be at least tens of millions.
The basement was divided into two rooms, the outer room and the inner room. She woke up in the sarcophagus in the outer room, while the inner room was hidden behind a tightly closed stone door. She searched the entire room and found that the candlestick fixed on the wall was the switch of the stone door.
"Hey! This is quite interesting, a bit like the puzzle games I played in my past life!"
The skeleton stood with her hands on her hips, delighted with her first small victory. After the stone door was fully opened, she walked into the room and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!"
This stone chamber is simply the most standard black magic laboratory!
A faint blue magical flame ignited from a candlestick embedded in the wall directly in front of him, dimly illuminating the basement. Atop the hearth in the center of the room sat a massive magical cauldron, the kind seen only in the Harry Potter films. To the left, a bookcase covered an entire wall, densely packed with tomes inscribed with magical text. For some reason, Jiang You could actually read these strange, twisted, earthworm-like words!
To the right was another large cabinet, its shelves and shelves filled with all sorts of strange bottles and jars. The jars contained a variety of solids and liquids... probably magical ingredients and finished potions. Jiangyou even saw what looked like eyeballs and lizard webs in some of the glass jars.
"Oh, that's a bit disgusting." Jiang You wrinkled her nose in disgust - or rather, she thought she made that expression - and left the shelf and walked to the other side of the room.
Between the bookshelf on the left and the fireplace, there is a heavy red cherry wood carved desk. On the desk is a large book, and the open page reads "Lich Alchemy: Let You Live Long and Long".
There are two schematic drawings at the end of the lower right corner of the page. The one on the left is a picture of a dried corpse with deep eye sockets, and the one on the right is a picture of a skeleton. The two pictures are marked "Finished Product" and "Failed Work" respectively.
It was obvious that whoever the original owner of this house was, he or she was probably making a lich before, and he or she was undoubtedly the one who failed.
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