Chapter 92 91 Lumina’s Requiem [3160].

Chapter 92 91.Lumina’s Requiem [3160

(Plus for brother ‘Huo whole quite good’ [16/20])
The girl squad executed well, and after they decided to set off, it only took them ten minutes to cross over the city’s large chasm to reach the inner city through the stepped passageway made up of the collapsed walls at the edge of the city. In addition to the four of them, there was also Brother Woo Meow who had been invited to join them as a temporary healer.

The four great warriors under his command and his cousin Little Hands just happened to form a team of five to explore the sewers and brush up on their leveling, so there was no delay between them.

“Are you sure there’s really transfer information here?”

Topped with a green psychic energy grass ring, Brother Woo Meow grabbed his secret energy staff, obviously an oak apprentice but wearing a flirty vampire vestment.

It wasn’t that he was deliberately mixing and matching, it was mainly because this equipment seized from the vampire psychic had phrases that added psychic perception and manipulation, and he couldn’t afford to change it.

Besides, players, mixing and matching is the norm.

What male character hasn’t worn a skirt and plate armor in the game?

Especially when you play a healing milk rider and must pursue the healing amount of time, that a flirty chest and backless little blue dress is you can not miss the best, although the bald human male wearing a skirt to take the flowers vice is really hot eyes, but you have to admit, this set of mashups at a glance is full of strength of the United States.

Woo Meow Brother is obviously an intensity party, so he does not care about his overly weird image at this time.

This cunning sociopath stood at the root of the half-collapsed city wall, looking at the deserted inner city in front of him, and said to Lumina:
“This place looks a lot worse than the outer city, over there at least some of the buildings are intact, here . Hm, this place has been completely bulldozed.”

This was indeed the case.

The inner city, which should have been grand and magnificent, had now become a piece of broken bricks and tiles, and there were no remains of buildings that could still stand up as far as the five of them could see.

The earth was obviously corroded by the energy turned pitted, the dust has become similar to gravel-like powder, some buildings even exposed the foundation, even the solid masonry is so miserable, human remains and what is even more don’t even want to exist.

Cadman City 400 years of time in seven days on the star world’s great power of filth wiped out clean, this ground seems to have been extracted from the life force, only a dried out miserable white “corpse”.

And these five people are standing on top of this corpse.

A gust of wind blew, making the gray gravel flying around like a scene of a gray desert, and such a miserable scene also made the five people look at each other.

They looked away.

They could only barely see the base of the former Blood Wyvern Castle remaining as if it had been weathered for a thousand years, so even if the most adept scavengers were sent here, it would be difficult to find anything of value on the ground.

After seeing the miserable state of the inner city with her own eyes, Lumina’s heart was also half-cooled.

Although Lady Tris had been kind enough to tell Lumina all the information she knew about the suspected bard’s old lady and draw her a topographical map, it had all been bulldozed and it was almost impossible to find the exact location.

“Come what may.”

Brother Woo Meow noticed Lumina’s loss, and the sociopath laughed out loud, taking the first step out and speaking to the four sisters behind him:

“Let’s go, let’s go check it out, where is that place?”

“A bar called ‘Tooth of Blood’.”

Lumina also perked up and glanced at the record file in her player interface and said to the others:
“Mrs. Tris said the old lady would always play there from what she remembers, but that was over 100 years ago.”

“Huh? Over a hundred years ago?”

Brother Woo Meow blinked and said:

“That old lady died balling a long time ago, didn’t she? And this place is so corroded, where can we see any bars? I think it would be better to visit the cemetery in the inner city. The coffins and stuff are buried underground, so it’s not as miserable as above ground, right?”

“Right ow, Uncle Woo Meow is right.”

Little Vikrama pushed his specially purchased witch hunter’s hat with his revolver in the same exaggerated walking pose as the cowboy and rubbed his hands together again:

“So it’s almost time to fast-forward to the grave-digging and grave-robbing part of one of the classic evils of the Fourth Cataclysm? Yeah! How exciting, go go go, only an hour left in the game, get it done before we go offline!”

“Go!”

Orchid Flower grabbed the tower shield behind her back and carried it in her hand, striding forward decisively.

That said, the look of a skinny girl carrying a tower shield as tall as her was really visually striking, making Brother Woo Meow couldn’t help but shrink his head.

He felt that if he met such a tough girl in reality, he would probably be killed by three punches… well, let’s be conservative, probably one punch would be enough to take down him, a high-level social animal who didn’t exercise all year round and liked to wash his feet once in a while.

So, what exactly is the origin of this mysterious little gang of Lumina’s, huh? How come there’s always this kind of weirdness that’s hard to see in normal people?

“Wait, there’s something wrong with the psychic energy fluctuation up ahead.”

After a few minutes, Brother Woo Meow suddenly frowned.

As an Oak Apprentice his perception of natural spiritual energy was very sharp, and despite the inner city being poisoned to this extent, there was still a natural aura in the wind that was signaling him.

There was danger ahead!
“Alert!”

He raised the staff in his hand and somewhat less skillfully pinched out a spell-casting motion.

As emerald streams of light swirled back around the staff, summoning psychic thorns to wrap around Orchid, the female shieldbearer, Garnet Sister flicked out the triple-edged spikes on her fist blades with a mischievous click, and Lumina grabbed the shotgun behind her back and aimed it forward.

The four girls protected the healer Meow Meow in the center, and the feeling of being “protected” by the four girls made Meow Meow feel very secure.

The feeling of being “protected” by the four girls made Brother Meow Meow feel very secure. He thought to himself that he had really chosen the right healing profession.

They vigilantly advanced towards the direction of the cemetery, and after walking past the corroded and cracked metal fence, they saw a group of skeletons with missing arms and legs walking in a daze on the bleak ground of the cemetery.

Some were still dragging weathered clothing from their burial, while others looked like they hadn’t been buried for long, but their flesh and blood were similarly corroded by the Astral Realm’s spiritual energy.

“Lady Tris said that Star Realm Spiritual Energy doesn’t distinguish between attributes, which could cause an imbalance of death spiritual energy in certain areas, bringing the dead back to life like right before our eyes.”

Lumina whispered an explanation, dropping a range scout forward in the process.

Feedback popped into the player interface:
Name: Undead that shall not rest in peace
Status: Decayed – Restless – Fragile Limb – Positive Energy Vulnerability

Evaluation: similar strength – hostile

“Fightable!”

She spoke up.

The next moment the cheering little Vikramana raised her twin guns like Sister Good Luck zooming in with a thumping barrage of shots, hitting six shots to shatter the skulls of four skeletons at this near extreme range of the revolver.

An average of one and a half a shot, and hit a moving target, the most important thing is that this little dwarf hit all the skull’s head.

That’s an awfully small target.

This accurate marksmanship made Brother Woo Meow amazed, he threw out vine entanglements to immobilize the skeletons that lunged at him on the ground while saying to Little Reed Name:

“Little sister this shot is so accurate, practiced?”

“I’ve been playing with guns since I was five years old ow.”

Little Reed Name grunted and said:
“At that time my grandma and grandpa brought me together to play, my grandpa is their piece of the famous fast gunner, I also know how to ride a horse it, cowboy family of gold understand? The doctor won’t let me ride now, though.”

“Ahem! Don’t talk about reality!”

Orchid remonstrated to shut up the mouthy little Vikramana, then she took a deep breath and carried her tower shield forward with her hands braced to block the skeletons’ scratching.

Under Lumina’s precise shooting and Sister Pomegranate’s melee offense, the five-member squad steadily advanced forward.

Brother Woo Meow had wanted to show off a hand of healing from the Winds of Returning Spring, but there was no way that these four sisters could work together so well that they couldn’t use him at all, so they could only hide far away like a despicable caster and wildly throw Nature’s Rage, taking advantage of the opportunity to brush up on their skill levels.

Sure enough, every flirty healer has a wild heart that belongs to DPS!

A small ball of green light was smashed out, the power was not as powerful as a straight bullet, but the advantage was that it came with a poisonous effect, although it was of no use to the skeletons and other necromantic creatures.

“There’s a strange guy over there! Lumi, look! She’s holding a saxophone! It might be that old lady you’re looking for!”

Sister Pomegranate took full advantage of her height, and while Orchid kept blocking the skeletons’ siege, she jumped on the collapsed tombstone next to her to check left and right, and soon realized that there was a strange skeleton moving in the deeper part of the cemetery. Lumina’s heart rejoiced, and the squad immediately adjusted their direction.

There were quite a number of skeletons in this tomb, but they were slow-moving and fragile, and Brother Woo Meow was able to slow them down with the shockwave branch of his normal psychic energy blast, allowing the squad to break through the blockade of restless undead to reach their target in a few minutes without any danger.

“Wait..! Don’t fight, she won’t attack us.”

Lumina reached out and squashed the small reed name that wanted to shoot and execute her as she looked at the skinny skeleton in front of her that was gripping what looked like a golden saxophone instrument with the bones of its ghastly white hand.

The latter didn’t even seem to notice the living beside her.

It really didn’t initiate an attack either, it was just blankly placing the mouthpiece of the instrument in its ever-moving palate bone as if it was playing some sort of weird performance art.

“She wants to blow the instrument, but she can’t do it.”

Orchid whispered.

Then pushed Lumina next to her and said:
“Go! It should be the quest flow when triggered, help her fulfill her last wish.”

“But… But I was only forced by my parents to learn a little bit of music when I was a kid, so I can’t necessarily play it well.”

Lumina was a little hesitant a little less confident but was slapped hard on the buttocks by Garnet Sister and said:
“I can play, but now is it you who is transferring or me? Hurry up and get on, don’t dawdle.”

“Ow.”

Lumi was forced forward.

A little nervous, she gestured towards the skeleton, signaling for her to hand over the instrument in her hand.

The skinny skeleton seemed to understand Lumina’s meaning, and it stroked the instrument in its hand with reluctance, and finally handed it over, then it stood quietly in its place, its black eyes staring at Lumina in front of her.

It seemed to be waiting for something.

The strange purple points of light in the eye sockets zoomed in and out, as if there were really residual emotions within the skeleton.

Lumina adjusted her breathing and looked the delicate golden saxophone up and down, however, she then realized that this thing was only similar in appearance to a saxophone, but the construction was not the same, fortunately the general principle of this orchestral instrument was the same.

Under the guidance of Pomegranate, Lumina took some time to familiarize herself with the instrument, and then, under the gaze of the skinny skeleton in front of her, placed the mahogany embellished mouthpiece to her mouth, and with a less than skilful movement, blew it.

It was just the most basic sheet music that I had learned in cram school as a child, but it was barely a tune.

The rhythm was quite cheerful, a stark contrast to the surrounding miserable white skeletons that came staggering and flailing.

A few seconds later in the crowd’s astonished gaze, the skinny skeleton seemed to rejoice when it heard the music.

At first, she just swayed her white skull and nodded her head like she was looking for a beat, and soon the amplitude of her swaying became bigger, and she even danced her loose body to the otherworldly music that she had never heard before.

It was as if she was dying for a hundred years before she danced her last song to the joyful accompaniment.

Although the scene of the skeleton dancing was not even remotely beautiful or even oddly comical or frightening, at this moment everyone else seemed to be able to see a middle-aged lady with great poise dancing to the music.

It was fully engaged.

The more it danced, the more joyful it became.

It was as if the second death of grief was left behind, allowing it, disturbed from its resting place, to return to the warmth of that eternal silence.

It was even accompanying Lumina.

The sound of its bones clashing as it swayed was rhythmic like the beat of a resounding drum, and it was still bouncing after Lumina had finished her song, completely immersed in this otherworldly music.

“Continue! Continue, she wants to dance to the end, fulfill her heart’s desire.”

Vikina whispered a little urge, so Lumina switched to a more soothing piece of music.

This time, the skeleton’s dance became more gentle as the music changed, and the thin skeleton’s “dance” seemed to be disturbing the other deceased.

In the team’s spiritualist, Brother Meow Meow’s astonished perception, he could feel a special force spreading around from the music played by Lumina, who was getting more and more into the state, making those brainless and restless undead also quiet down.

They stood frozen in place, quietly surrounding the five-member squad and the recklessly dancing skeleton, like spectators watching a performance under a strange concert.

In the sound of the music, the thin little skeleton’s dancing became more and more flexible, as if she had reverted to the time when she was still alive, spinning and jumping right there on the little mound of death where she was buried, even making difficult one-legged upright dance moves, making this reapproaching death also become gentle.

As it danced, however, its skeleton began to emit puffs of smoke in the slanting light of the setting sun.

It was like the scene when the vampires were cauterized.

By the time the second song was finished, its entire body was shrouded in billowing bone mist, like the smoke on a stage set up by the prop masters.

After the dance.

She saluted the accompanying musicians with a dashing and proper stoop, the upper and lower jaws of her miserable white skull opening as she tilted her head back, as if revealing her most satisfied smile.

The entire skeleton then collapsed in a flash, dissolving into flying dust.

Only a rusty key was left in its place.

She refused the generosity of death, and returned to her resting place once more when enough of her heart’s desires had been fulfilled.

The skeletons around her also awoke as if from a dream, they seemed to finally realize their abnormal state, and one by one chose to give up enjoying the power of the curse and fell or collapsed in place amidst the exclamations of Brother Whoop Meow.

In just a few seconds, the entire disturbing cemetery once again returned to the tranquility that the land of the dead deserved.

The rays of the setting sun poured down on the wretched earth, making the five people feel as if they were in a dream for a while.

Lumina was silent.

She didn’t know how to describe that feeling just now.

She felt like she was seeing visions.

But the truth of the matter was that while blowing the music to accompany the pale skeleton, it was as if she actually saw a skillful and beautiful dancer dancing to the sound of her own actually not-so-good music, contentedly moving towards extinction once more.

Her last wish was granted, the music from the otherworld soothing her troubled soul, and as Lumina bent down to pick up the rusted key from the ground, a line of alert text popped into the player interface:

[Special musical score “Requiem – Otherworldly” has been recorded, contacted the transfer item [Ness’s Musical Instrument Chest Key], the vice profession ‘Empty’ can be transferred to Bard – Elven Musical Score Specialization, yes/no transfer?]

“I got the transfer reminder.”

Lumina glanced back at Sister Garnet as she whispered:
“But I’m not happy about it.”

“Pretentious!”

Sister Pomegranate rolled her eyes and stepped forward to pat Lumina’s shoulder as she whispered:
“You’ve just fulfilled the last prayer of a centuries-old departed soul and sent her and her neighbors to rest in peace, so don’t show such a sad expression, if this were on our side, you’d have to be called a mage for the size of your hand.

Cheer up!

Playing the game is all about smiling.”

“Okay.”

Lumina bristled as she stood up and looked at the key in her hand then at the grave that had been dug up at her feet and said:
“Nessie’s music box is in the ground, it was a gift she left me, we need to dig it up.”

“Wow, it’s finally the digging up the grave part I’ve been looking forward to so much.”

Little Vikrama squealed, grabbing a couple shovels out of her psychic bag, looking at Brother Woo Meow with a surprised look on her face:
“Why do you have such things in your bag?”

“As a greedy adventurer digging graves isn’t that a basic operation?”

155’s dwarf female Sword Saint grinned and gave a thumbs up in the setting sun, causing her white teeth to flash with reflections as she shouted:
“It pays to be prepared, Uncle! Come on, dig up, you might even get a treasure chest.”

(End of chapter)