Escape?

A head made from countless twisted, intertwined bone hands stacked together rose like a pale flower from the seabed.

The head had no face, only eyes and a mouth. Its eye sockets were two bottomless black holes, while its mouth was a horizontal fissure, its edges formed from jagged bone hands as well.

Those bone hands were still slowly writhing. Some opened, some curled up, and some slowly shifted position. Water streamed down along the contours of the arms, making everyone's scalp tingle.

It emerged from the sea bit by bit—first the crown of its head, then its eye sockets, mouth, chin, neck, and finally its breastbone—a vast flat surface made from countless overlapping hands.

Everyone on the sea tilted their heads up, staring at the white mountain rising from the ocean. For a moment, they were all too shocked to make a sound.

The name Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant had already given them some idea of what it looked like, but seeing it with their own eyes was another matter entirely.

Its oppressive presence crashed over them like a tsunami!

Just its exposed upper body was as tall as twenty or thirty stories. The ships before it looked like insignificant peas, and even the level-seven Ghost Ship was, at most, a slightly larger pea.

Its shadow fell across the sea, blanketing the water in darkness.

"...So cool."

On the Ghost Ship's deck, a Skeleton Henchman murmured as he stared upward, the soul fire in his eye sockets flickering wildly.

How many bones would that take?!

Huang Xiaowen gripped the railing tightly, her eyes wide. "Th-th-this... isn't this the monster that nearly dragged us under in the Forbidden Sea last time?"

They had thought the bone-hand monster they encountered last time was some special creature that had appeared by chance. Who would