Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 1012 - 277: The Adventure Craze, Sword Toward the Giant Beast

But in terms of racial development, the Bone Emperor and the Emperor of Skeletons had serious disagreements, ultimately leading to a war for the supreme authority.

This war was extremely brutal. The Emperor of Skeletons personally led the Dark Knights to raid the main city's barrier, while the Curse Mages following him unleashed a rain of cursed arrows. The Sewn Monsters and Ghouls courageously charged the city walls without fear of death...

In the end, it was the Bone Emperor, who wielded the Rules of the March of the Dead, that emerged victorious, becoming the new king of the Bone Clan.

The mural content ends here.

But the story of guidance continues, generating a light curtain image, revealing the content not carved in the mural.

Shortly after the Bone Emperor's victory, just as the "Emperor Ascension Ceremony" was about to be held, the sky over the Skeleton King City suddenly turned into a diamond-shaped grid.

Without warning, without a declaration of war, and without giving the Bone Clan time to prepare, the strike of the Blue Lantern Clan descended.

The floating Spine Palace was twisted, and the Eternal Barrier maintained by millions of mages burst like a fragile soap bubble. The walls of the Skeleton City collapsed in an instant, and the river of blood that had flowed for tens of thousands of years backflushed.

It was as if a giant foot had descended from the sky, crushing the entire city like an ant kingdom.

Even though the Bone Emperor sacrificed his soul fire at the last moment, refining the blood river within the city into a pillar of ghostly blue flames that pierced the heavens with his clan members, it was unable to resist the terrifying suppression of the Divine Lamp Rule by the Blue Lantern Clan.

In the last moment before the city was swallowed by the Divine Lamp Rule, several phantoms of the Blue Lantern Clan appeared in the sky. Holding divine lamps, they were recording the civilization data of the Bone Clan, as if observing the extinction of bacteria under a microscope.

Lastly, the crushed city was reshaped under the Divine Lamp Rule.

On the dome of the main hall, the final monarch, the Bone Emperor, seemingly returned to the throne as if time had reversed, repeating his hopes for the future of the Bone Clan right before the calamity:

"We are born from death, yet understand the meaning of eternity more than the living. Hereafter, I'm the only sovereign. With bones as my shield and sword, I shall build an immortal dynasty with you all."

The memory of the Bone Emperor became the eternal echo in the adventurer dungeon "Skeleton Throne."

It is clearly also the final BOSS in the "Skeleton Throne" dungeon.

But this dungeon is essentially a specimen of civilization.

Just like how humans pin butterflies into specimen boxes, the Blue Lantern Clan permanently froze this once glorious civilization at the moment before its annihilation.

The entire Skeleton King City was perfectly preserved within the space of the Divine Lamp, like rare animal specimens soaked in formalin in a museum.

Every wandering skeleton guard was a warrior who, facing the crisis of annihilation, exhausted their life to continue the civilization with the Bone Emperor.

The Bone Emperor on the throne is also eternally fixed at the last second before the Blue Lantern Clan's arrival, when it was proclaiming a new era of civilization to its ministers, its eyes still filled with expectations for the future.

Humans preserve the most characteristic posture of animals when making animal specimens.

Meanwhile, the Blue Lantern Clan recreates the most desperate moment of a race when making a civilization specimen.

In essence, this dungeon is not a crafted virtual creation but a real civilization made into an eternal three-dimensional animation.

Every time it's challenged by foreign creatures, it's showcasing the moment before the demise of this deceased civilization.

The adventurers play the role of the Destroyer.

The difference is, the civilization casually destroyed by the Blue Lantern Clan is woven into an adventurer's dungeon that requires overcoming numerous challenges to clear.

After learning the background story of the Skeleton Clan, Hong Yang and others went into the city.

Passing through a corridor filled with spiral carvings, they arrived at a circular plaza where a hundred-meter-high statue stood, which was the last master of the Skeleton King City, the "Bone Emperor".

"If this weren't a fictional scene, I could smash it and sacrifice it to the Sacrificial Emperor, probably worth a lot," Ah Qi said regretfully as he gazed at the statue of the Bone Emperor.

"Your thoughts remind me of the warships brought by the Black Wind Tribe during their invasion of the Colorful Mist Coast, which we smashed and sacrificed to the Emperor Zhao. I earned over 800 sacrificial power from that," Wu recalled nostalgically.

"What's the Black Wind Tribe?" Xiao Ye asked curiously.

"A race that enabled the arena gameplay. If it weren't for the Black Wind Tribe, our players wouldn't have been able to access the Ancient God Arena back then..."

As Wu told the story, a tale known only to veteran players unfolded in the minds of Hong Yang and the others.

Just as the story ended and the team reached the center of the plaza, the sky suddenly burst into a downpour of ghostly blue soul fire.

The ground shook, splitting into a cobweb of cracks, seeping with a putrid black mist, and the sound of bones grinding echoed above.

Then a giant shadow spiraled down from the dome. Hong Yang and the others looked up to see a massive gray-white torso writhing segment by segment, like a skinned giant snake or a centipede with a white exoskeleton.

It crashed into the center of the plaza, sending rocks flying and flinging Wu, who was closest, away. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The second scene BOSS appeared at this moment.

Its design was pieced together from gray-white segments, with sharp bony legs extending from each side of its body. The skull at its front was monstrously large, with three eyes arranged in an inverted triangle, burning with ghostly blue soul fire. Its jaw jutted out like a guillotine, filled with jagged teeth, and it had two bony arms, each wielding a bone scythe. The tail ended in a spiral bone spike, dripping corrosive black liquid.

Decomposition swept over, revealing the relevant information.

[Executioner of Skeletons · Thousand Section Burial Bone]

Hunting Level: 74

Target Introduction: A war weapon voluntarily forged by the fusion of twelve Forbidden Army Knights from Skeleton King City. It roams the city as an executioner, executing resuscitators who dare to defy the king's will. Death Runes, personally inscribed by the king, are embedded in its joints, which glow blood red during executions, decomposing the soul and body of the condemned into pure death energy, nourishing the "March of the Dead."