"Benefactor Bunny, are you certain the Skull Tower can only be breached with Buddhist relics?"
Outside the Forest of Bones, Bore spoke as he lifted a nearby water vat and slowly but violently washed his entire body. When the cold water fell onto his heavily muscled upper body, it somehow steamed with waves of heat, as if scorching steel were being cooled.
They had just tried attacking the Forest of Bones again, and naturally returned in defeat. Even after they had battered the Skull Tower until it was nearly shattered, it stubbornly remained standing atop the Lotus Pedestal. Once Bunny Heroine and Bore exited Rainstorm Duration, their damage per second plummeted, and the Lotus Pedestal quickly restored the tower to its original state.
Their normal damage output simply could not keep up with the Lotus Pedestal's restoration speed.
If their first retreat from the Forest of Bones had been filled with hope, then after the second, all that remained was a deep sense of helplessness. It was like a monkey painstakingly learning to swim in an attempt to pluck the moon from a lake, only to discover upon drawing near that it had all been an illusion... Their persistence over all these years seemed to have been nothing but futile effort.
"Bore, how could anyone be certain about something like this?" Before Bunny Heroine could speak, Yaoshi Yuan immediately shot back, "It's only a guess. My little sister kindly helped think of a way to break the deadlock, and you still want a guarantee? Should we guarantee that after you clear the Front Hall, you'll immediately obtain Si Wuxie's inheritance and advance to Foundation Establishment Fourth Turn?"
Yaoshi Yuan guarded Bunny Heroine like a mother hen protecting her chick. Facing Bore's slightly anxious questioning, she retorted without the slightest fear,