Across the open wastes on the outskirts of the Desolate Bone Forbidden Zone, fierce winds swept past with red dust, lifting metal fragments and dark red bloodstains from the ground.
Two figures raced out of the sky like ghosts and landed beside the utterly crushed wreckage of the aircraft in an instant.
The woman in the lead wore a crimson, skin-tight combat suit. Her skin was pale as paper, her long, dark red hair hung loose, and her coldly beautiful face carried a bone-eroding malice. Her scarlet eyes resembled burning fires of Inferno, and incomparably pure inferno divine astral force wreathed her body. She was Red Bone, a top-tier deacon of the Crimson Prison Society.
The man beside her was built like an iron tower. Savage, bloody claw marks covered his bare arms, and his fingernails gleamed with a pitch-black chill. Blood energy intertwined with inferno power around him, his aura violent and bloodthirsty. He was Blood Claw, who had accompanied her.
After landing, they swept their gazes over the aircraft wreckage, flattened as thin as paper, and the sticky blood seeping through its gaps. Their expressions immediately darkened.
Blood Claw stepped forward and kicked a broken piece of metal away. His face was so gloomy it seemed water might drip from it, and he growled through gritted teeth.
"Damn it, we were still a step too late! That idiot One-Eye exposed himself after all, and he couldn't even keep them here. Useless!"
After receiving the news, they had thought success was all but assured. They would settle the matter and return to receive Lord Flame Demon's reward. Instead, they had ended up drawing water with a bamboo basket-nothing to show for their efforts. They had failed to find the remnants of the Oath of Embers, and the hidden operative