NOVEL NEXT Chapter 70.1
Isaac really hated skeletons.
A miserable body that couldn’t eat or sleep, just a walking corpse!
When the cold wind blew, it would crack and weather away, and when trying to use magic, it would snap and break!
If you moved a bit, an arm or a leg would fall off. The damn dogs would come running, messing up what he had just put together!
Even if he wanted to heal, healing magic had roots in holy power, so it was poison to the undead! Bathing in milk happened only once or twice!
‘And its appearance is just so damn trashy! Damn it!’
The most unpleasant thing was not being able to feel emotions. Ah, of course, the instinctive thought of ‘dislike’ was still intact, perhaps due to the survival.
After all, it was the law of survival to selectively exclude inferior things and dislikes, evolving repeatedly.
Well, it went too far when, even when the subordinate he personally raised died, instead of sadness, he perceived it as ‘garbage to be discarded’ in an instant, which was so creepy and made him feel bad.
It wasn’t even his own will. It felt like even the ego as a human was deprived.
And it didn’t stop there.
‘Undead, even if you try to annihilate them, they resurrect as undead.’
And it’s not just any resurrection.
It resurrects as the lowest! Level 1!
In other words, all the magic power and magic cores learned so far are reset!
How does he know?
He knows because he was resurrected as level 1 by those damn priests! Ugh!
It wasn’t for nothing that other high-ranking undead started a fight when they saw the priests.
Anyway, the important thing was that Isaac hated skeletons horribly.
But.
“Aaargh!”
Isaac, looking at his hand, couldn’t help but scream.
‘What the hell!’
He thought he saw something weird for a moment, but even after looking again and again, it was a bare bone.
Whisper also seemed bewildered.
[Ma-Master? Did you miss your skeleton body that much?! If you had just said so, I would have turned you into a skeleton sooner…]
As if that would ever happen, you little brat!
Isaac closed his eyes for a moment and took a deep breath.
Yeah, let’s stay calm.
Seeing the stupid, idiotic Saintess Melissa for the first time in a while, so…
Blink-blink.
…Damn, it’s not a hallucination.
Isaac checked his hand again, but the bone was peeking out, as if asking if he missed it.
By that point, Isaac, pinching his temples, immediately understood the situation.
‘Right… So that’s the cause.’
Isaac looked at the much stronger Whisper than before. Whisper, who had become even more stern, had grown to the point where it could cover the entire room.
‘Well, it’s a simple problem.’
No, rather, it was too late for things to turn out like this.
Wasn’t there a curse on Isaac that even the gods feared?
A symbol of fear that forced the Skeleton King to be called the strongest Demon King of all time.
⸢Life and Death Reversal⸥
It was the ultimate curse that turned everything alive into death.
Then did the curse forcibly devour this body?
No. That wasn’t it.
This body was the best physique, even as a human. It wasn’t for nothing that the strongest Demon King in history chose this body.
Then why did a part of the body turn into a bone?
It was a simple story.
‘Because magic power became stronger than holy power, temporarily strengthening the power of the curse.’
Until now, holy power had been more abundant or maintained a ratio similar to magic power, so the curse had been suppressed.
‘In other words, balance is important.’
In that sense, the solution was simple.
‘Strengthen holy power to suppress the curse.’
All he had to do was accumulate holy power.
Well, yeah. Just accumulate holy power.
Although Isaac had been ignoring the role of a Saint, praying or engaging in religious activities somehow to accumulate holy power was enough…
‘Before that, wouldn’t it be over if this gets exposed?’
[Will it really end with the word ‘end’? It’s execution, execution! Advertising that the Skeleton King is here!]
Hahaha, right.
Before collecting holy power, he would first get caught by the kids in the Blue dormitory.
With such a little faith, he would get caught by those around him, or even by Shuri.
If caught, it’s an immediate execution.
[Yes, even if they are stupid priests, they’ll notice! The transformation of the living body into bones is undoubtedly the trait of the Skeleton King’s
Isaac flicked the skeleton hand irritably.
Damn it, he was trying to raid the treasury and destroy the country. This damn Saint body is protesting, telling him to do only good things, not bad thoughts.
Well, it didn’t matter.
‘As long as I don’t get caught, it’s fine, right?’
Wouldn’t it be better to just use it instead?
If he transforms his face into a skull, who would even know who he is?
[Whether it’s a dead guy or a living guy…]