Everyone's Class: One Effort, 10,000x Bonus Reward! - Chapter 374: The Strange Secret of the Bone Core

Aiden narrowed his eyes slightly and said three cold words.”Something’s wrong.”

Cheryl put away her giant staff and quickly walked over. Her beautiful face was still a little flushed from the battle.”What is it?”

Aiden stared at the blackened hole, his voice cold as ice.

“That violent undead power just now was definitely not something this skeleton created naturally over all these years.”

“That undead seed was planted there on purpose.”

Hearing this, Rainn also walked over with her long legs.

She did not care about the dirty death energy still left on the bones. She crouched down and gently placed her pale hand on the edge of the burned hole.

The Primordial Miko mark on her forehead suddenly lit up, spreading soft, holy white ripples.

Her powerful senses followed the dry, ruined lines of the bones and rushed deep inside like flowing mercury.

A moment later, Rainn suddenly opened her eyes.A look of shock flashed through them, impossible to hide.

She stood up, her expression extremely serious.

“You were right.”

“The ancient memories from my Origin inheritance tell me that a very powerful core energy once existed here.”

“It was the soul crystal formed by this One-Horned Winged Dragon King while it was still alive. A priceless treasure, comparable to something from a top-tier Demon God.”

“But someone dug it out by force.”

Cheryl gasped and instinctively clenched her fists.

“You mean someone killed it, then cruelly dug out the source of its power?”

Rainn shook her head, her eyes fixed on the dark Abyss in the distance.

“No. The One-Horned Winged Dragon King died a long time ago. This is only an empty shell.”

“But that person not only took its most precious soul crystal, he also injected a powerful undead law into it in the most vicious way.”

“He turned the skeleton of a proud King-rank beast into nothing more than an undead puppet used to guard the gate.”

Rainn took a deep breath.Her voice grew heavier, even carrying a faint tremble.

“What’s even more frightening is that, judging from the law traces left around the edge of the hole…”

“That person was here no more than ten years ago.”

The moment she said that, the air around them seemed to freeze.

Ten years.

For Abyss creatures that often slept for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, ten years was so short it was almost like yesterday.

There was a rare hint of fear in Cheryl’s voice.

“Why would someone do that? And how did he get through those terrifying seals outside?”

Rainn’s beautiful face was full of seriousness.She slowly shook her head.”I don’t know.”

“But one thing is certain. This mysterious person understands the forbidden land of our Miko City far better than we do, even though we are the true descendants of the Miko line.”

An unknown enemy was often far more terrifying than a Demon God standing in plain sight.

A heavy, invisible pressure suddenly filled the air.

But then—

Just as a shadow rose in the hearts of the two women, a cold laugh full of contempt suddenly broke the dead silence of the valley.

Aiden raised his head.In his deep, abyss-like eyes, there was not the slightest hint of fear.There was only a pure, overwhelming desire to destroy.

He spoke calmly, his tone as casual as if he were talking about something unimportant.

“Doesn’t matter who he is.”

“Whether he’s human, a god, or some ancient monster that crawled out of the Abyss…”

“If he dares to stand in our way, we kill him. That’s all.”

Boom!

A powerful killing intent burst out of Aiden without any attempt to hide it.

It rose into the sky like a real, peerless blade, cutting straight toward the heavens.

At that moment, the young man in black standing on the massive skeleton looked like an unbeatable god of slaughter.

Arrogant. Fearless. Overwhelming.

Cheryl stared blankly at Aiden’s cold, perfect side profile, sharp as if carved by a blade.

That calm confidence and domineering presence, as if he could punch a hole through the sky itself, struck her heart hard.

For some reason, her heartbeat suddenly skipped.

The blood that had gone cold from fear and tension now began to burn beyond her control.

Aiden ignored the looks behind him and casually stepped over the huge skull.”Let’s go.”

“I want to see what kind of filthy thing is hiding in the deepest part of this forbidden land.”

The Nocturnal Boots under his feet moved slightly.

In the next instant, his body turned into a sharp black streak of light and rushed straight into the darker mist ahead without hesitation.

Cheryl’s lips curved up without her noticing. The fear in her eyes disappeared completely.

Holding her crystal staff, she quickly followed him.”Wait for us!”

Rainn watched the two of them, one after the other, and shook her head helplessly.

But the worry in her eyes also faded away.With this terrifying man here, a man who could even crush a level 90 Demon Duke, what was there to be afraid of?

A pure white glow flashed.The three of them turned into three streaks of light and completely disappeared into the strange, silent depths of the forbidden land.

…

Night fell like thick black ink, swallowing the dangerous dark-red wasteland completely.

The three of them stopped in a relatively flat area covered with giant rocks and set up camp.

A pure white glow appeared around Rainn’s fingertips.

With practiced ease, she set up a tight warning formation around the camp.

Cheryl had used up too much energy in the intense battles during the day, so she soon fell into a deep sleep nearby.

Aiden took the night watch on his own.

The strange moonlight pierced through the thick dark-red clouds, covering the whole land in a chilling crimson glow.

Aiden was dressed in black. Like a silent statue, he sat cross-legged on a raised rock at the highest point of the camp.

His eyes were half closed, and his breathing was long and steady.

But his terrifying soul perception had already spread out in every direction like an invisible radar net.

Within ten miles, even the wingbeat of a single Abyss insect could not escape his senses.

Everything was silent.Even the wind carried a dead stillness.

Suddenly—

An extremely faint, almost nonexistent, cold killing intent seeped up from deep underground without a sound.

Aiden’s eyes snapped open.

In those deep eyes, a dazzling golden light burst out at once.

Boom!

The bright and domineering Divine Golden Sunflame erupted around him like a volcano, burning wildly in an instant.

Aiden shouted, his voice like thunder exploding from the ground, tearing through the quiet camp.”Rainn, wake up!”

Before his words had even faded, his right fist, burning with golden flames like the blazing sun, came down with tremendous force and smashed into the ground in front of him.

Rumble!

The earth shook.The violent pure-yang power instantly blasted a huge blackened pit into the hard rocky ground.

Broken stones shot out in every direction like bullets.

At the same moment the rubble scattered, a ghostly black afterimage shot up from the pit.

It was a pitch-black dagger filled with vicious hatred.

It tore through the air and stabbed straight toward Aiden’s throat.

Its speed was like a viper striking, and its angle was extremely tricky.

Aiden’s lips curled into a cruel sneer.He had no intention of dodging.”Looking to die!”

The Legendary-rank Nocturnal Boots under his feet suddenly shone with a deep dark light.

The speed boost activated instantly.

Whoosh!

Only a fading afterimage remained where Aiden had been.The deadly black dagger stabbed through empty air.

Aiden’s real body had already moved at a speed the naked eye could not follow. Like a ghost, he appeared behind the dark figure.

His eyes were a thousand times colder than the freezing winds of the Abyss.

Aiden raised his right hand and spoke in an icy voice.”Divine Golden Sunflame: Burn.”

Boom!

In midair, violent golden flames gathered at once, forming a giant flaming hand that seemed large enough to cover the sky.

It grabbed the dark figure tightly in its palm.

“Ahhh!”

The figure let out a terrible scream, sharp and miserable, like a night bird crying blood.

The Divine Golden Sunflame, powerful enough to burn all things to ash, instantly turned her wide black robe into nothing.

Under the light of the flames, a pale and twisted female face was fully revealed.

What made people’s skin crawl was her eyes.

They were pure black, without even a trace of white.

This was the infamous mark of a Dark Miko from the Abyss.

Aiden’s voice held no warmth at all.He looked down at her like a god staring at an ant.”Who sent you?”

The giant flaming hand slowly tightened.

The clear sound of bones cracking rang out sharply in the night air.

The Dark Miko stared hard at Aiden.There was no fear in her pitch-black eyes.Only endless madness.

The next second, she clenched her jaw without hesitation.

Crack!

The poison sac hidden deep in her teeth was crushed at once.

A sharp, rotten stench spread through the air.

Black poisoned blood spilled from the corner of her mouth like a small snake.

The Dark Miko was clearly an expert assassin, but she did not say a single useless word.

She died on the spot.

Even her soul was eaten away by the poison and turned into a foul pool of black water.

By then, Rainn had already rushed to the edge of the deep pit with her staff in hand.

She looked at the broken body that the giant flaming hand had thrown to the ground like a dead dog.

Her beautiful face instantly turned cold and grim.Rainn stared at those lifeless, pure black eyes and spoke through clenched teeth.

“This is a death soldier trained by another candidate for Primordial Miko.”

“She finally lost patience and sent a Dark Miko to assassinate me.”

The air was filled with a sharp, disgusting smell of burnt flesh mixed with poisoned blood.

Aiden casually patted his hands and turned around.

Behind him, the sea of golden flames stretched his shadow long, making him look even more oppressive.

His voice was as cold as frost.The killing intent around him was so strong that it seemed to freeze the air.”Looks like someone really doesn’t want you to reach that Miko City alive.”