Chapter 550: The most precious skeleton
A door opened in front of a short skeleton in fancy clothes.
“Oh! She won again!” the skeleton rejoiced, jumping in place, the skeletal crow on his head also jumping up and down on his skull.
Bookie’s joyous outburst did not last long, however. He clutched his book form against his chest as he walked through the newly opened door. He wanted to be there when Sofia eventually called for his help so he needed to triumph over his next task before Sofia reached her next trial within the palace.
“Without brother Pareth next to her I can’t help but worry…”
Bookie walked through the dark corridors hoping to reach his destination soon, as he was not very comfortable in complete darkness.
“Only four chances left… Sofia didn’t forget about me, right?” he worriedly asked the crow on his head, receiving a few skull-pecks in return.
Finally he saw some light in the distance, two of the Dungeon’s ominous candles illuminating an iron gate.
“Another arena!” Bookie exclaimed excitedly, running up to the gate. So far, the trials had been either logic or combat based, Bookie was not as good as he wanted with logic, so he was happy to see an arena again.
Yet when the arena gate opened, he was shocked by what was waiting on the other side. This was not like the previous times in the arena where a monster would be waiting there to fight to the death. This time, the arena was a bustling and noisy market of strangely-clothed skeletons roaming between stalls, haggling with the skeleton vendors, and overall creating a warm atmosphere in the candlelit arena.