Flesh and metal, orcs and machinery, the desire to kill and the will to destroy—together, they formed Turanze's most terrifying monster.
This was an Origin Warrior: never tiring, never retreating, never giving up. Once unlocked from its seal, it would fight to the death until every enemy within its range of perception had been slaughtered, or until even the last active cell beneath its warped armor had been burned to ashes.
Moreover, the one that had appeared before Meng Chao and Ice Storm, guarding the Blood Skull Shrine, was no ordinary Origin Warrior created within the past few decades.
Three enormous Cuneiform Scripts were engraved upon its shield-heavy Chest Armor, flashing with an intensely unpleasant crimson glow.
Ever since acquiring the Totem Armor, Meng Chao had conducted extensive research into the Cuneiform Script used by the Ancient Turan People.
In particular, he had deciphered every Cuneiform Script representing numbers.
Thus, he could read the string of digits written on this Origin Warrior's Chest Armor.
"Two hundred and forty-nine?"
Meng Chao was utterly puzzled. "What does that number mean?"
Ice Storm, beside him, changed expression. As if facing a formidable enemy, her entire body tensed.
"That isn't a number. It's his name. It seems this Origin Warrior's former self was the strongest Ace Gladiator of the Blood Skull Arena over the past thousand years—Two Four Nine!"
Ice Storm told Meng Chao that Two Four Nine had been active roughly three or four centuries ago.
At the height of his powers, he had created a miracle on the Arena of Glory at the Blood Skull Arena: two hundred and forty-nine consecutive victories.
Such a shocking, earth-shattering feat had not been broken by a second Gladiator even to this day.
That was why, according to the Turan People's unique naming customs, people had