Floating, floating... floating, floating...
The coral-formed jugs, the undead reveling, dragging away the sleeping living with their hook spears.
The seawater rotted their skin, and sea fish gnawed at their outer garments.
Don't eat it... Don't eat it...
The undead screamed as they dragged the living to the flask, where they hung the living high on their bones, and ghostly flames burned on the coral. The undead held hands and sang around the living.
Flames strip away the flesh and blood of the living, and the songs of the dead shatter the memories of the living.
Burn, burn... burn, burn...
Don't be afraid, we will all return to our homeland...
...
"Is it about 20,000 meters?"
"Oh my god!"
"No regrets in this life... even though I am already dead?"
On the ghost ship, the sailors gazed at the boundless far north.
The vast ice field stretches as far as the eye can see, with no mountains obstructing the view, extending all the way to the horizon!
However, a single silver horn emerged from the icy plain, soaring straight into the clouds!
“A narwhal?” Riverst stroked his chin. “I think I’ve seen it in some ancient text.”
"But this is the first time I've seen one this big. It's hard to imagine how enormous her true form must be."
“Alas…” Kyle sighed deeply and closed his eyes: “It’s a pity that the ice field binds her.”
"That was a tragedy of an era, in which even the largest living beings perished, and freedom was lost along with them."
"Perhaps true freedom is the ability to obtain freedom at any time?"
“Who knows!” Riverst gazed into the distance. “Some people do know we’re coming.”
The ghostly behemoth continued its advance along the glacier, and the surrounding piles of bones seemed to react, all pointing in one direction... further north!
“It’s even colder now,” Kyle said, squinting. “As I said before, not many of our ancestors actually came back from there. The environment there kept too many cowards away.”
“But I won’t give up now. Even if I’m not satisfied with the result, at least I’ve tried.” Riverst pulled out another stack of expensive scrolls and handed them to Jesse.
He was instructed to use scrolls to heat the giant ship, and the heat even caused the surrounding glaciers to melt!
“Kyle, you haven’t seemed to accept the things I give you. Do you not like them?” Riverst suddenly asked.
These words are colder than the bitter cold of this moment!
“No, you have given me something even more precious!” Kyle lowered his head, tears welling in his eyes.
“Really? I don’t remember.” Riverst took the tea that Jessie had brewed and took a small sip.
“It’s freedom, my lord!” Kyle said humbly. “The invisible freedom has conquered everything for me! I am willing to serve you for the rest of my life! Heaven bears witness!”
“Ha, I know your loyalty, of course!” Rivist took out a contract coin from his ring.
"But I always want to give you something. It can't be that everyone else has something and you don't. What will people think of me then?"
"So, consider it for my sake, for my future, and for your... loyalty!"
Rivis held the contract coin between two fingers and handed it to Kyle with a smile. Kyle trembled as he looked at the coin and then at the goodwill in Rivis's eyes.
Behind Kyle, the old captain Jessie silently drew his longsword, staring at the back of Kyle's neck.
"..." Kyle slowly extended his hand, slightly hesitant, and seemingly a little afraid?
The atmosphere here is even colder than in the far north!
“Take it, Kyle!” Riverst asked with a smile. “What are you waiting for?”
Kyle's fingers touched the gold coin, and he finally held it firmly in his palm.
Riverst leaned back, looked at the contract, smiled for a moment, and then turned his head back to look at the scenery.
“I just feel indebted to you. It’s a tribal tradition, and I… I have to repay you. I… I didn’t know this thing was so precious!” Kyle cried out nervously.
"I...I will definitely repay you in my next life!"
“I think we don’t need a next life. This life is good enough. Live well and live happily!” Riverst patted Kyle on the shoulder, comforting him.
At that moment, a cold wind suddenly blew from afar, making it difficult for many ghosts to maintain their form.
"Watch out! Boss!" Kyle tackled Riverst to the ground as a burst of ice spikes pierced through the defensive shield provided by the scroll and plunged straight into the giant ship.
If it weren't for Kyle's help, Rivis would have been injured because he overestimated the scroll's defensive capabilities!
...
"Hello!"
"Kyle!"
"Jessie?"
A white mist enveloped the entire ice field, making it so thick that Riverst could barely stand!
Damn it! Why isn't this a ghost ship beneath my feet?
All that could be seen beneath Rivist's feet was a thick layer of white snow, his feet sinking deep into it, making it almost impossible for him to move!
"Woo~~——" The horn sounded suddenly from the far north, and the earth trembled!
A pair of silver flames ignited in the mist, accompanied by a sound similar to the neighing of warhorses.
"Wait! Are you kidding me?!" Riverst couldn't believe his eyes.
From behind the mist, a skeleton cavalryman wielding a giant axe charged forward, shattering the entire glacier with each step he took!
Rivers tried to escape, but collapsed in the snowfield, unable to hold on any longer.
"Wait! No!!!"
Riverst gestured for the other man to stop, and he did indeed stop, quietly riding his skeletal horse in front of him.
“You are afraid of death, Riverst,” the skeleton said.
“You shouldn’t be meeting me now. We should have met later. According to my prophecy, we met too early.”
Riverst: "What? Wait! I've come seeking answers! Life and death..."
"Shh!" The skeleton made a silencing gesture: "Don't rush, let me hear your story."
In the time that followed, the skeleton revealed its real name... Nameless, and then spent a long time explaining it.
It's like...
Riverst: "Who are you?"
Skull: "Nameless."
Rivers: "Oh? Still playing the aloof card?"
Skeleton: "I am Nameless."
Riverst: "Keep pretending! I'll punch you!"
Then, and then... and then Rivers finally quieted down after being beaten up.
Rivist, still in pain, recounted everything that had happened.
"So that's how it is!" The nameless skeleton nodded. "You've already killed Keomi once."
You have proven your potential!
"But you should know that in some worlds, some Keomi may have more opportunities, and therefore have greater combat power."
"You need to keep going too. Stopping will kill you in the next Keomi..."
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