Gatekeeper Of All Realms Chapter 46

Bang.

A soft sound.

Big Skeleton quietly appeared before him.

“Huh? What are you doing out?” Shen Ye asked in surprise.

“The time has come for us to part ways,” Big Skeleton said with a complex expression.

Shen Ye looked at its fully healed skeletal body and then realized.

“That’s right, you can move freely now,” Shen Ye said.

“Yes, I must return to the Undead race. I have many unfinished tasks and cannot continue to waste time like this,” Big Skeleton said solemnly.

“Alright, then, we’ll part ways here,” Shen Ye said with a smile, waving his hand.

“En, thank you very much for helping me regain my strength, kid—I see you don’t even have a storage tool, so I’ll give you this ring as a souvenir.” Big Skeleton said.

It placed the ring in front of Shen Ye.

“You can open and close it using your mental power, just try it.”

“Okay, thank you—it’s a pity I didn’t prepare any farewell gift for you.”

“No need, you healed my wounds.”

“Then, goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

Big Skeleton bowed slightly, turned, and ran into the depths of the forest, disappearing from sight in a moment.

Shen Ye put the ring on his finger and muttered to himself with a touch of emotion:

“After only a few days of raising it, it’s released back into nature. I wonder if it will survive.”

The words had barely left his lips.

A flock of birds suddenly flew up from the forest ahead, followed by a violent roar.

When Shen Ye looked up, he only saw a giant, pale flame erupting from the forest, with countless white skeletal skulls floating in the fiery glow.

A flash.

“No—”

Big Skeleton’s furious cry was cut short the moment it began, as if choked.

The shockwave turned into a gale, kicking up sand and stones, and the ground trembled slightly.

Shen Ye’s face lost all color.

Even during his battle with the “Skinner,” he had never seen an attack of such power.

In an instant.

The forest returned to silence.

Shen Ye brushed off the dust from his head, shook a few small stones from his neck, and felt a mixture of fear and uncertainty.

What happened?

With Big Skeleton’s strength, could it not even withstand a single blow?

Then…

Wouldn’t I just be throwing my life away if I went up there?

As the saying goes, it’s better to avoid problems than solve them. I should hurry and—

Suddenly.

Three lines of faint text appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:

“Critical reminder triggered:”

“You have been discovered.”

“If you retreat now, it will affect your evaluation and you will not receive the third ‘insider’ tag.”

…So I was discovered.

Actually, there’s no escape in this situation, especially since Big Skeleton seemed to have no power to resist.

As the saying goes, when someone’s in trouble, you lend a hand.

I’d better go and see what’s happening.

Shen Ye put all his attribute points into Strength, making his Strength reach 8.3.

Strength indirectly represents physique, which is vitality.

As long as he’s not instantly killed, he has a chance!

Shen Ye decided not to hide or test, he roared, “Ferren, what happened to you?” and then charged directly into the forest.

“Don’t move, human.”

A sinister voice spoke.

Shen Ye immediately froze.

Several cadaverous, muscular undead, holding sharp bone spears, pointed at him from various directions, as if they would pierce his body the moment he moved.

Shen Ye glanced at his brother Ferren.

He saw shattered bones all over the ground.

A skull lay on the ground, surrounded by the undead.

This unlucky guy.

I should have kept him.

“What did you do to my brother Ferren?” Shen Ye roared.

“Your brother?” an undead wearing a mask sneered, “I never knew humans would call undead brothers.”

The other undead also showed curiosity.

Shen Ye glanced at Big Skeleton’s big skull.

Faint, flickering flames appeared in the skull’s eye sockets, and it quickly sent a telepathic message:

“Elf Village mission failed.”

Shen Ye immediately understood.

It seemed these undead were the team sent to punish Big Skeleton after the previous assassination mission on the elves failed.

“Nonsense, my big brother saved my life, and I’ve decided to follow him and overturn the evil human empire!” Shen Ye said.

The leading undead snorted coldly and said, full of murderous intent:

“You two think you can kill the human king? Do you take us for idiots? —Kill them both!”

“Wait!” Shen Ye shouted sharply, “If you act, you will surely regret it!”

“Don’t try your tricks on me, I’m not some easily fooled beastfolk,” the Undead Leader said.

Shen Ye directly threw something over.

The Undead Leader caught it and saw it was a human Medal of Valor.

The Undead Leader hesitated slightly but eventually decided to investigate further.

It twisted its finger and chanted several spells at the medal.

A sacred light slowly emanated from the medal.

These lights flickered in mid-air, forming a line of small characters:

“This Medal of Valor is awarded to the last survivor of the Rhine territory.”

“When he holds the medal, he will receive the effect of a miracle manifestation.”

The Undead Leader slipped the medal into Shen Ye’s hand.

Instantly, wisps of sacred light appeared in the void around Shen Ye, gathering above his head to form a line of text:

“Awarded to the Boy Who Lived—Prince Norton of the Saint Violet Empire.”

Only the recipient of the medal could glow!

This was more scientific and less susceptible to fakery than the elf medals.

“It’s real…”

“Kid, where did you get this thing? Speak!”

The Undead Leader demanded.

Shen Ye looked at it, and subtly glanced at its head.

“Doom Star”—

A “Doom Star” tag floated above the Undead Leader’s head!

As expected, having a tag makes a difference.

Even though he stood far away, he was covered in sand from that last attack.

Not to mention, Big Skeleton couldn’t even withstand a single blow.

Currently, he had encountered three beings with tags.

The Elven High Priest, Xiao Mengyu, and the Undead Leader.

They were all powerful.

But people without tags were also powerful.

Xiao Mengyu couldn’t defeat the “Skinner.”

—So what exactly is the meaning of tags?

While contemplating, Shen Ye loudly shouted:

“Hmph, my brother Ferren and I agreed to infiltrate the human capital together and look for an opportunity to assassinate the King!”

If you tell a lie over and over again, people might not believe you, but they might think you’re a fool.

Fools naturally speak the truth.

—The fool truly believes he can assassinate the King.

“Idiot! Even if this medal is real, do you really think you two can assassinate the human king?” the leader sneered.

“We have a channel to infiltrate the upper echelons of human society,” Shen Ye said.

He pulled out a letter.

The letter naturally reached the leader’s hand immediately.

—A letter of recommendation to the Imperial Military Academy.

“Prince Norton’s letter of recommendation… The handwriting and emblem are genuine, impossible to fake.”

“Incredible, who exactly are you!”

The Undead Leader asked, looking surprised and uncertain.

“Let’s first talk about why you want to deal with my brother Ferren,” Shen Ye said.

“There’s nothing to hide, no harm in telling you—”

The Undead Leader sternly said, “During the mission to assassinate the leader of the elf village, everyone else was captured, but he abandoned the mission and escaped. Such behavior must be severely punished!”

“Hahahaha!” Shen Ye laughed uproariously.

The Undead Leader stepped forward, grabbed his neck, and angrily asked, “What are you laughing at?”

“I laugh at your stupidity. He was the only one who saw through the elves’ trap and escaped from the assassination site, and he even saved me.”

“—And yet you want to kill him!”

Ferren chimed in at the right moment, “The female leader of the village wasn’t there, the Great Elven Priest was in charge, and he was ready to kill any assassin impersonating an elf.”

“What proof do you have?” the Undead Leader asked.

“Aren’t you all very capable? Go investigate yourselves! In the human military camp, my story is everywhere, everyone knows I once appeared in the elf village, where the Great Elven Priest was stationed—that’s exactly where Ferren’s mission was!” Shen Ye said.

After hearing this, the undead exchanged glances.

Could it be true?

Did Ferren truly sense the danger and retreat first?

If so, then such a deadly mission could indeed be temporarily abandoned.

—After all, the leader of the elf village wasn’t there; a big shot of the elf race was in charge, making the mission impossible to complete.

“Everyone knows you appeared in the elf village? You have such a big reputation?” the Undead Leader probed.

“Nonsense, the Prince even wrote me a letter of recommendation, what do you think?” Shen Ye met its gaze, unafraid.

“What… are you called in the human military camp?” the Undead Leader asked.

“The Boy Who Lived.”

Shen Ye stood tall, his voice firm and resonant.

The line of text above his head resonated with his words, inspiring respect.