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Chapter 257 - 91. Lumina’s Requiem [31/60]_3

Chapter 257: 91. Lumina’s Requiem [31/60]_3

The rhythm was rather upbeat, forming a stark contrast to the surrounding pale, shaky, grinning and clawing skeletons.

After a few seconds under the surprised gaze of everyone, the thin skeleton seemed to rejoice upon hearing the music.

At first, it was just nodding its pale skull as if trying to find the beat. Soon, it began to sway more widely, even dancing to the unfamiliar music, its body all loose and wobbly.

It was like dancing the final song to a playful accompaniment after a hundred years of death.

Although the scene of the skeleton dancing was nothing close to graceful – in fact, it was a strange mix of comedy and horror – at that moment everyone seemed to see in it a middle-aged woman with striking charm dancing elegantly to the music.

It was fully immersed in it.

The more it danced, the more joyous it became.

It was as if it had forgotten its sorrowful second death, allowing it, whose rest had been disturbed, to return to that warm eternal silence.

It was even providing accompaniment for Lumina.

The rhythmic sounds it made as its bones collided, like drumbeats, continued even after Lumina had finished playing. It was fully immersed in this otherworldly music.

"Continue! Keep going. She wants to dance until the end, fulfill her wish."

Little Wei Ming quietly urged, so Lumina switched to a more soothing score.

This time, the skeleton’s dance became more gentle in step with the change in music. And, bizarrely, this tiny skeleton’s "dance" seemed to distract the other dead.

In the team’s psychic, Wumeioge, surprising perception, he could feel a special force emanating from Lumina playing the song increasingly well, distributing it around and calming down the unrest of those brainless undead.

They stood still, quietly surrounding the five-person team and the wildly dancing skeleton, like audiences watching a performance at a curious concert.

In the music, the skinny skeleton’s dance became more flexible, just like when she was alive, spinning and jumping on the mound of her burial place, even making a difficult dance step of standing on one leg straight, bringing a gentleness to this commencement of death.

But as it danced, its skeleton began to emit puffs of green smoke under the setting sun.

Just like the scene when vampires were scorched.

By the end of the second song, its entire body was enveloped in a rising bone mist, very much like the smoke arranged by stagehands.

The dance ended.

It gave a casual yet appropriate bow in respect to the accompanist, and when it raised its head, the upper and lower jaw of the pale skull opened, as if it was displaying a most satisfying smile.

Then, the entire skeleton collapsed in an instant, turning into flying ash.

Only a rusty key was left where it had stood.

She rejected the generosity of death, choosing to rest again after enough of her wishes were fulfilled.

The surrounding skeletons seemed to have woken up from a dream, finally realizing their abnormal state. With cries of surprise from Wumeioge, they fell or collapsed, choosing to give up the power of the curse.

In just a few seconds, the unsettling cemetery was restored to the silence that a land of death should have.

The glow of the setting sun spilled over the messy land, leaving the five in a dreamy state for a moment.

Lumina was speechless.

She didn’t know how to describe what she had just felt.

She thought she had seen an illusion.

But the fact was, as she played the music, accompanying this aged skeleton, she seemed to see an elegant and beautiful dancer dance to her fair music, going towards her second dissolution contentedly.

Her last wish was fulfilled, the music from another world soothed her restless soul, and as Lumina bent over to pick up the rusty key on the ground, a line of information popped up on the player interface:

[The special score, Requiem of Another World, has been recorded. Contact with the Job Change item, Nis’s Music Box Key, detected. Secondary Occupation ’empty’ can transfer to Bard·Elf Score Specialization. Yes/No to transfer Job?]

"I got the job change notification."

Lumina looked back at Sister Pomegranate and spoke in a low voice:

"But I’m not happy."

"Dramatic!"

Sister Pomegranate rolled her eyes, stepped forward and patted Lumina on the shoulder saying:

"You just fulfilled the last wish of a departed spirit who had died a hundred years ago and let her and her neighbors rest in peace. Don’t look so sad. If this were back home, your performance would have been called a mage’s work.

Be happy!

It’s a game after all, you should play it with a smile."

"Alright."

Lumina pursed her lips and stood up, looking at the key in her hand and the open grave under her feet and said:

"Nis’s music box is underground. It’s her gift to me. We need to dig it up... "

"Whoa, finally we have the much-anticipated grave-digging segment."

Little Wei Ming shrieked and pulled out several spades from her tried bag, which surprised Wumeioge:

"Why do you have these things in your bag?"

"Isn’t digging graves basic to being a greedy adventurer?"

The 155cm tall, petite female Sword Saint grinned, giving a big thumbs-up in the sunset, her white teeth gleaming. She shouted:

"Better safe than sorry, Uncle! Quick, let’s start digging. We might find a treasure chest."