allonlinenovel Chapter 115 I haven't even started yet
Chapter 115 I haven't even started yet
Pfft—!
The golden lightning bolt, named "Jinghong," did not produce any earth-shattering roar, but only a slight sound like a sharp blade cutting through rotten wood.
The skeletal general's raised saber, along with the dark red energy gathered on it that was powerful enough to tear space apart, suddenly solidified.
It slowly lowered its head.
On its breastplate, which was engraved with runes, a hole the size of a fist had appeared sometime ago.
However, Yu Huang did not stop, but shuttled back and forth.
With a flash of sword light, the Skeleton General's health bar plummeted like a drop tower.
In the blink of an eye, it was completely cleared.
boom!!!
The enormous skeletal body collapsed with a crash, shattering into pieces of bone and metal fragments scattered across the ground.
The Jade Emperor Sword, which had unleashed the "Surprising Beauty" technique, slowly materialized in the air a few meters behind it, its golden light subdued.
Then it silently flew back to Chen You's side, hovering alongside the Jade Emperor Sword, which had transformed into a "chaotic star" sword wheel, like the most loyal guardian.
From the moment the skeletal general roared and attacked to the moment he was reduced to a pile of shattered bones, the entire process took no more than three seconds.
Chen You didn't even flinch at the hem of his clothes.
[Ding! You have successfully defeated the elite lord 'General Skeleton Meng Hun'!]
[You have gained 5000 experience points!]
You have obtained 'Meng Hun's Soul-Severing Blade (Broken)' x1!
[You have obtained 3 'Bone Cores'!]
[Ding! Congratulations! You have successfully cleared the dungeon [Tomb of a Thousand Lights]!]
Experience points gained: 10000
[Gained Thousand Light City Reputation: 1000]
[Ding! You have obtained the "No Damage Clear" achievement for the [Tomb of a Thousand Lights]!]
[Ding! You have obtained the "Speed Clear" achievement for the [Tomb of a Thousand Lights]!]
[Ding! The conditions for destroying the [Tomb of a Thousand Lights] have been met!]
……
A series of system notifications flashed before my eyes.
A look of surprise appeared on Chen You's face.
He frowned slightly.
"You've cleared the game?"
He opened the task panel.
Main Quest: The Hero's Orphan (In Progress)
[Mission Objective: Proceed to the ancestral tomb of the Meng clan, find the stone tablet mentioned in Meng Tu's last letter, and investigate the source of the curse. (Incomplete)]
The dungeon was cleared, but the quest was not completed.
This shows that killing this so-called final boss is not the mission objective at all.
"really……"
Chen You remained completely unmoved.
From the beginning, he didn't take this seemingly imposing skeletal general seriously.
His gaze fell upon the deepest part of the main hall.
There, shrouded in dust and shadow, stands a huge stone monument in silence.
The stone tablet is ten meters tall, entirely black, and made of an unknown type of stone. Its surface is covered with ancient, chiseled marks.
This was his true objective for this trip.
Chen You stepped forward, with two Jade Radiance Swords hovering on either side of his body like shadows.
An aura of desolation, antiquity, and endless resentment and regret washed over me.
The patterns on the stone tablet were not decorations, but an ancient script he had never seen before, twisted and eerie, as if it possessed a life of its own.
Just by staring at it, one can feel one's mental energy being slowly drained away.
Chen You's gaze swept quickly across the stone tablet, finally settling on its very center.
There, there is a clear, deep groove embedded inside the stone tablet.
Upon seeing the groove, a flicker of emotion finally appeared in Chen You's eyes.
Everything fits together.
With a thought, he took out the ancient wooden box called "The Hero's Gaze".
"Clatter".
The wooden box was opened.
The special white feather emblem that was never used lies quietly inside.
Previously, this emblem was just a quest item with no discernible attributes.
But at this moment, as it approached the black stone tablet, the emblem itself began to tremble slightly.
The surface light also flickered, as if resonating with the ancient groove on the stone tablet.
Without hesitation, Chen You reached out and took the white feather emblem from the wooden box.
Slowly align the emblem with the groove on the stone tablet.
The size is exactly as described.
"Click."
A soft sound.
The white feather emblem was perfectly embedded in the groove, as if it were part of the stone tablet itself.
The moment the emblem returned to its place—
Buzz!
The entire black stone monument suddenly trembled!
A visible golden ripple suddenly spread out from the emblem, instantly sweeping across the entire stone tablet!
The thick dust and sinister aura covering the stone tablet were instantly purified and stripped away by the golden ripples!
The stone tablet, originally as black as ink, revealed its true form—
It was a deep, dark gold, as if it could absorb all light.
Immediately afterwards, the twisted and eerie ancient characters on the stone tablet lit up with a blood-red light one after another!
Rumbling--
The entire Tomb of a Thousand Lights—no, the entire underground space—began to shake violently!
Gravel fell softly from the dome of the hall.
Chen You stood as steady as a mountain, his eyes fixed on the changes on the stone tablet.
The crimson characters lit up faster and faster, eventually merging together and turning the entire stone tablet into a giant crimson crystal.
A phantom, a hundred times more solid and a hundred times larger than the one that appeared when Meng Tu's remnant soul appeared, slowly projected out from the stone tablet!
That wasn't a human figure.
It was a scene.
The setting is an even older and more magnificent temple.
In the center of the temple, a figure dressed in a black and gold priest's robe, his face shrouded in shadow, held aloft a dagger made of obsidian.
Before him, a massive magic circle composed of countless blood-red runes was operating wildly.
In the center of the magic array, one after another, figures with despairing expressions were bound together; they were the ancestors of the Meng clan!
The figure in the black and gold priest's robe chanted ancient incantations in a strange language that seemed inhuman.
"With blood as the bond, with soul as the pact..."
"My people are willing to offer up their dearest loved ones in exchange for the power to wield darkness..."
"This covenant is binding, and I will never break it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the obsidian dagger in his hand plunged into the heart of the clansman closest to him!
Fresh blood gushed out and was absorbed by the magic array on the ground.
The tribesman whose heart had been pierced did not die; instead, he let out a painful roar.
His body began to twist and mutate, his power was rising steadily, but the rationality and humanity in his eyes were rapidly fading away!
This is the truth that Meng Tu was talking about!
This is the disgusting curse behind the so-called family glory!
[System notification: Your actions have alerted the guardians of the contract!]
Just then, the phantom image projected by the stone tablet shattered with a deafening roar!
The small mountain made of broken bones suddenly began to tremble violently!
slam-la-
The pile of bones that had just been scattered suddenly began to tremble violently without warning.
Strands of black energy, deeper than ink, surged wildly from the gaps in the bones.
These black wisps seemed to possess life, rapidly gathering and writhing in mid-air, eventually coalescing into a blurry, distorted humanoid silhouette.
An evil aura, a hundred times more terrifying than Meng Hun's, instantly enveloped the entire central hall.
A series of question marks appeared before Chen You's eyes.