Chapter 168: Skeleton
Because of Ste’s tears, Alex decided to spend more leisure time.
He took Ste and Celia to the bench, sitting close to each other. Here, Alex fished out a children book. He had read that book for Ste before, and it was a perfect time to continue reading that.
Celia also wanted to know more about the story.
She held her little hands in excitement as Alex read it aloud. On the other hand, Ste had been silently listening to them while hugging Alex’s arm.
But after a little while, Ste parted her lips, “I want to read too.”
Alex smiled widely while Celia looked at Ste with big eyes. After their reaction, Ste felt a weird pressure on herself, as if these two expected too much of them.
Ste didn’t yield to the pressure, however.
She took the book into her hands, slowly parting her lips. Her voice flew and reached everyone’s hearts, sounding like the divine whisper of a careful goddess.
She read slow but fluently, pulling heartstrings!
“Ste…” Alex whispered to Ste’s ear, as she didn’t react to his first call, “Celia’s sleeping.”
“Eh?” Ste lifted her eyes, shocked as she didn’t expect Celia to go to sleep.
The little duhan didn’t even have a nap on her schedule. Ste turned her incredulous eyes to Celia, only to get surprised.
Alex chuckled, “It’s because of your soft voice. I also feel like sleeping… If it weren’t for Celia, I would use your thighs as ap.”
Ste blushed, nodding to her beloved, “Next time.”
“Yes,” Alex whispered after grinning, not daring to wake up the little duhan.
It was also quite good that Celia went for a nap because Alex and Ste got more time for each other. They carefully carried Celia to her bedroom, then left her alone, going for their own matters.
Alex and Ste looked into each other’s eyes. Within those hues, the same emotion red, getting hotter as the time passed.
They spent an hour in Ste’s room, shaking the bed.
After that, Alex went to the treasury with his dazzling goddess by his side. Ste held his arm tightly, matching his pace. She also didn’t use wings, as if preparing herself to be more active around her beloved.
It was pretty funny as Alex knew that she used wings with Celia!
He still couldn’t help but smile at Ste’s progress.
“What are we going to the treasury for?” Ste asked softly.
But as no answer came out, she lifted her eyes to look at Alex. After seeing his grin widen, Ste pouted and added, “Don’t smile like that.”
“But I can’t stop,” Alex caressed her back while conveying his emotions. He then replied to her inquiry, “There’s an item I’ve received in the early levels. That item had no grade, and I couldn’t use it at earlier levels.
However, I’ve reached enough prerequisites to use that… It’s called the Bone Seal,” Alex exined.
Ste asked for more information with her curious eyes, only to get a shrug as the response.
After finding herself before the treasury, Ste received another shock of the day. Today has been particrly unique as Ste had been receiving surprise after surprise.
“Wee back, Master,” Erin’s voice reached both Alex and Ste.
While Alex remainedposed, Ste had been cautiously listening and trying to see through the treasury’s person. She even thought of going through the doors, but Alex and Erin’s conversation had been pretty easy-going.
Even if she was someone put here by Elias Deathwill, Erin’s presence and will belonged to Alex. From her voice, Ste couldn’t sense any trickery or ill-intent.
“I want a Bone Seal. I put that here in early levels,” Alex smiled after telling Erin about his adventure with homies.
He also proudly said how cute Ste was. And as Erin could see the gorgeous white-haireddy, she agreed with Alex from the bottom of her heart.
‘Jealousy…’ Ste whispered inwardly, feeling the emotions behind the treasury’s spirit voice.
For now, the winged goddess decided to ignore the spirit.
Alex also received the item in his inventory. He didn’t spend too much time with Erin, but enough to tell her that he thought about her. She was a peculiar case with immense knowledge, so Alex didn’t want to neglect her and his responsibilities.
It was his duty to look after his people, after all.
He and Ste headed to the outside.
And outside, they went through the castle’s walls, bing vulnerable to any hungry demons’ attacks. In this peculiarnd with Deathwill Castle, Alex knew about more demons than just Wolfen Demon.
However, it didn’t seem like they had any ns to attack Alex and his castle.
He nodded, “In the dungeon conquest, I’ve received the soul fragments from the orc… On thest floor, I got even the boss’ soul fragment. The system told me that I could utilize them on Deathwill Castle’s grounds.
Aftering here, I rechecked it, learning a little more stuff. First, I need the Earth Soul Land’s unique attribute to utilize those soul fragments. Secondly, I need this Bone Seal,” Alex took out the bone seal.
It looked like finger bones forcefully bent to make a circle. That item’s description had been unavable for Alex before. However, his system was omnipotent. No, every yer’s system was omnipotent.
However, not every yer could get as much help from the system as Alex. His system knew that he had the means to utilize the soul fragments through the castle’s grounds and the bone seal!
He put the seal on the ground, “Now, the souls.”
Alex took out the soul fragments. They were blue orbs that didn’t seem like souls at all. However, they reminded Alex of Sara and Celia’s eyes. And as he stared at them deeply, Alex felt like he saw a few more simr eyes to these orbs…
“The soul grave-keeper… I am forgetting someone?” Alex recked his brain as he tried to remember and get rid of this weird feeling building up within him.
He then sighed and continued with the process.
After the souls flew to the Bone Seal, Alex activated the item. It had already connected with the souls and Earth Soul Land.
From the seal, countless bones started sprouting out.
“Nobum’s Skeleton shall appear here,” Alex whispered.
Ste’s eyes narrowed.