Murphy's Golden Challenge: Attempt
The Bonechewer King was the sort of figure anyone who had studied even a little history would recognize.
Although a century had passed since the Fourth Black Calamity ended, the continent had yet to recover from the heavy damage it had suffered. Both the Plantagenet Kingdom and Nordtov still had vast stretches of abandoned "no-man's-land"—places once ravaged by the Fourth Black Calamity.
They were monuments to the past and history, and silent indictments of the disaster.
During the Fourth Black Calamity, gnoll warlocks had unleashed a vile plague that had left many battlefields across the continent barren to this day. And no one doubted that, in this Black Calamity, the gnolls would do the same thing again.
No matter how evil an act was, doing it a second time never weighed as heavily on one's conscience.
The first time might be called an accident, but the second time was always a choice!
In short, as the mastermind behind a calamity that had once ravaged the entire continent, the Bonechewer King's appearance had to be remembered by posterity.
Both Mirian and Colonel Fraser had once said that the history textbooks they'd studied in Chardo Port included detailed descriptions of the Bonechewer King's appearance.
It had been a gigantic gnoll!
It stood taller than the strongest brutes, with fearsome claws it had possessed from birth and teeth that could almost chew through any kind of steel. The Bonechewer King had the most luxurious fur and the most beautiful tail among all gnolls.
Judging by the textbook illustrations alone, this unusual gnoll had almost shed its savage image. Any outsider could sense the majesty and powerful beauty the Bonechewer King possessed.
Those widely circulated illustrations could naturally be found in the Red Corridor's library. After learning that the Black