The ever-rising bones ultimately formed towering walls of white bone on either side.
Dazed by the heat, Shade felt as though he had unknowingly entered a narrow path hemmed in by those towering bone walls. There was shade now, yet the temperature had not changed at all.
Everything before his eyes was becoming blurred. Hands reached out from the bone walls, trying to seize him, but Shade shook them off. Bones also reached out to grab Grandma Sianode behind him, only for Shade to roar and wildly swing the Sunlight Greatsword he had just summoned, shattering them.
Holding the skeleton in one arm and wielding the greatsword with the other, Shade gradually lost sight of Ms. Meister ahead of him. Exhausted, thirsty, and overheated, he could only keep mechanically walking through the bones surrounding him. Only occasionally did he suspiciously think, With so many undead around, why isn't it cooler?
He passed between towering walls made of bones, crossed terrifying temples made of bones, and stepped over the courtyards and tree houses of elves made of bones. This was everything from Grandma Sianode's hometown in her memories, all fashioned from white bones.
But all of it was bone. There was not a single living person here.
Holding that elven skeleton in one arm, Shade felt increasingly exhausted, yet the heat his body endured only made the light released by the Sunlight Greatsword grow stronger. He knew he was most likely fighting wits with thin air, but it did not matter. He was too hot to think.
Ms. Meister had vanished completely. Shade did not know how he had climbed a hill made of piled bones, then struck down the bone elf giant rushing at him with one slash. He continued onward into the giant skull's mouth. The road ahead still