Everyone's Class: One Effort, 10,000x Bonus Reward! - Chapter 373: The Dragon Skeleton
“It was marked in the treasure map records!”
“It was an ancient beast tamed by the ancient Miko clan. It was used to guard this Miko City!”
Even though only dry bones remained, the terrifying aura still made Cheryl, who was only level 75, struggle to breathe. She was forced to take several steps back.
Aiden, however, seemed completely unaffected.
With no expression on his face, he stepped forward and walked straight toward the skeleton giving off that dreadful pressure.
The pressure was strong enough to crush the Spirit of an ordinary Venerable, but it could not even lift the corner of his coat.
When he reached the skeleton, Aiden narrowed his deep eyes slightly.
His peak Great Venerable-level divine sense swept over the enormous bones like an invisible scalpel.
Then Aiden spoke in a calm voice. In the dead silent valley, his words sounded especially clear.”Something’s wrong.”
“It didn’t die a natural death.”
Hearing this, Rainn and Cheryl endured the pressure and carefully moved closer.
Following Aiden’s gaze, they finally saw it, and a chill ran through them.
The thick bones, as white as jade pillars, were covered in countless tiny cracks.
It looked as if some unimaginable force had torn the skeleton apart from the inside.
Even more terrifying was the massive hole in the center of the One-Horned Winged Dragon King’s skull.
It was nearly three meters wide.
The edges of the hole were uneven and covered with rough claw marks.
Aiden’s voice turned cold as he pointed out the biggest mystery of the skeleton.”Its core and soul fire were dug out by something.”
The moment Aiden finished speaking—
Rainn seemed to sense something truly terrifying.The hair all over her body stood on end, and she suddenly screamed. “Watch out!”
Crack!
A sharp, grating sound of bones scraping together exploded through the valley.
The hundred-meter-long skeleton, which had been silent for tens of thousands of years, began to shake violently.
Hiss…
Countless streams of pitch-black mist, cold enough to chill the bones, burst out wildly from the many cracks across the skeleton.
The black mist gathered quickly in the air and turned into thick, twisted black tentacles covered in barbs.
“Roar!”
The tentacles moved as if they were alive, wrapping tightly around the scattered bones.
With an ear-piercing grinding sound, the broken bones were forcibly dragged back together and violently pieced into place, one after another.
In just a few breaths, the One-Horned Winged Dragon King, which should have been completely dead, actually crawled up from the ground.
Its huge bone wings spread open with a thunderous crash, raising a foul-smelling black storm.
Boom!
Two balls of ghostly green flame suddenly ignited inside its massive empty eye sockets.
It lowered its terrifying skull, and the green flames locked onto the three people on the ground.
A low roar, as if it came from the Nether Abyss itself, rolled out from its throat, even though it had no vocal cords.
“Roar…!”
The sound waves turned into real black ripples, shaking the entire valley violently. Countless rocks tumbled down from above.
Cheryl’s face turned pale. Even the hand holding her magic staff was trembling slightly.
Rainn clenched her teeth. The origin mark on her forehead flashed wildly as she fought against the terrifying wave of death energy.”This is the power of the Law of the Undead!”
“Someone planted an undead seed inside its bones by force!”
“They turned it into an undead puppet under someone’s control!”
Hearing this, Aiden did not take even half a step back.
He slowly raised his head and looked up at the hundred-meter bone dragon, whose wings seemed to cover the sky.
His calm, unreadable eyes began to grow colder.
Colder and colder.Until they were as cold as ice.
Aiden’s lips curved into a cruel, bloodthirsty smile. In the next instant, violent magic power burst from his body and shot straight into the sky.
“Looks like…”
“Someone thinks they can get here before me and take what belongs to me.”
Boom…!
The One-Horned Winged Dragon King suddenly flapped its huge bone wings, stirring up a sky full of foul black mist.
A terrifying aura of death, strong enough to make an ordinary Venerable suffocate, crashed down like a black tsunami.
Cheryl did not retreat at all. Her small figure was the first to rush forward, turning into a blur as she charged against the wave.
“Attack!”
She gripped her huge crystal-clear magic staff with both hands and slammed it hard into the ground.
Crack!
With a sharp breaking sound, a bright ice-blue ring of light spread wildly in all directions from the staff.
Everywhere it passed, the black mist in the air instantly froze into countless dark ice shards, which fell to the ground.
The ice-blue ring wrapped precisely around the Winged Dragon King’s thick rear legs, each as large as a white jade pillar.
Then the power of extreme cold exploded.
Layer after layer of heavy frost formed in an instant, freezing it firmly to the ground.
“Its movement has slowed!” Cheryl shouted without looking back.
“Roar!”
The bone dragon lowered its head and roared.Its terrifying strength shook the ice, cracking it like a spiderweb. It looked like it was about to break free by force.
Rainn snorted coldly and rushed after her.”Not a chance!”
The mysterious white vertical mark on her forehead suddenly burst out with a blinding pure-white glow.
“Origin Witchcraft: Soul Purification!”
A bright, flawless beam of white light tore through the darkness.Like a sword of divine judgment, it struck the Winged Dragon King’s huge skull with perfect accuracy.
Hiss, hiss, hiss…
The beam pierced into the three-meter-wide hole in the center of its forehead and slammed into the rolling black undead seed inside.
It was like hot oil meeting water.A sharp sizzling sound echoed through the dead silent valley.
The two ghostly green flames in the Winged Dragon King’s eye sockets flickered violently.
Its massive body twisted wildly as it let out an extremely painful, piercing roar.
Rainn’s purifying power was slowly and forcefully stripping away the overwhelming Law of the Undead.
At that moment, Aiden was still standing where he was, his hands in his pockets, as relaxed as if he were taking a walk.
He was not in a hurry to attack.His calm, unreadable eyes were coldly studying the enormous creature.
Even after being modified and brought back to life, this pile of bones still had a pitifully simple attack pattern.
Other than crushing everything with its massive body, it could only spit out rough blasts of death energy.
Still, there was no denying that the bones of this King-rank beast were incredibly hard.
Cheryl’s extreme-cold ice ring, powerful enough to instantly kill an ordinary level 70 Reclasser, had only left a few faint white marks on the surface of its leg bones.
Aiden narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold smile curved his lips.
“Not enough armor break.”
“That’s about enough.”
The next second, he moved.
The Nocturnal Boots lightly tapped the ground.
Aiden’s figure vanished instantly.He completely ignored the violent storm of death energy and appeared in midair like a ghost.
He raised his right hand and spread his fingers wide.
Boom!
A bright golden flame, blazing with extreme heat, burst to life in his palm.
It was the Divine Golden Sunflame.
The moment that holy, pure, sun-like aura appeared, the surrounding darkness and death energy pulled back wildly, as if they had met their natural enemy.
Aiden’s eyes were cold. He pushed his palm forward through the air.”Go.”
The golden flame expanded in the wind.In an instant, it turned into a shining fire dragon dozens of meters long, roaring as it tore through the sky.
The proud golden fire dragon carried a terrifying heat that seemed able to burn everything to ash.Then it slammed hard into the Winged Dragon King’s chest bones.
Boom…!
A deafening impact exploded through the valley, like a meteor hitting the ground.
Golden flames burst across the pale white bones and spread into a raging sea of golden fire.
The Undead Law attached to the surface of its bones had seemed unbreakable.
But in front of this holy flame, it was as weak as thin paper.
In an instant, it was burned black, then vaporized.
“Awooo…!”
The Winged Dragon King let out a desperate cry.Its huge body was knocked back again and again by the force of the blow.
The thick bones in its chest, which were as hard as steel, cracked inch by inch under the extreme heat, turning into bone dust that scattered through the air.
Seeing that terrifying damage, Cheryl shouted in excitement.”It works! Keep going!”
Aiden’s cold voice echoed in midair, like the tolling of a funeral bell.”Then let it return to dust and ash.”
After that, the battle became a one-sided slaughter with no suspense at all.
Rainn pushed the Origin Mark to its limit, using pure white cleansing light to firmly suppress the undead seed’s counterattack.
Cheryl swung her staff, casting one ice-binding spell after another. Each spell landed with perfect accuracy, locking the hundred-meter beast in place so it could not move.
And Aiden—
He was the most terrifying magic cannon in the world.
With the support of his Legendary Rank Magic Mastery, the Divine Golden Sunflame turned into a sky full of golden meteors, raining down mercilessly on the huge skeleton.
Every explosion shattered large sections of bone and burned them black.
The teamwork between the three of them was so smooth it was as if they had practiced it thousands of times.
About fifteen minutes later—
Crack… Boom!
With one final heavy crash, the King-rank Abyss beast that had once terrified countless living beings could no longer hold itself together.
Its hundred-meter-long skeleton snapped completely at the chest and collapsed with a thunderous roar, sending dust into the sky.
In the end, it became nothing more than a pile of blackened, broken bones, with no sound or movement left.
Black bone dust drifted through the air like a strange black snow, slowly falling onto the scorched ground.
The once-proud hundred-meter monster had now become a dead, burned-out wreck that gave off a foul charred smell.
The huge, savage skull of the Winged Dragon King rolled heavily to the side.
Inside its empty eye sockets, the two ghostly green flames struggled violently like will-o’-the-wisps.
Then, as if their last trace of life had been drained away, they went out with a soft puff.
The violent death energy and black mist around them lost their source.
Under the remaining heat of the Divine Golden Sunflame, they quickly faded into nothing.
Aiden’s expression was cold.He stepped over the ground covered in crunching bone fragments and slowly walked toward the massive skull.
His hands were still in his pockets.His eyes were sharp and fixed firmly on the three-meter-wide hole in the center of the skull’s forehead.
That place had once been the true core of this King-rank beast.
