Meanwhile, a major incident broke out on Companion Star S-1!
A three-legged LV.37 corrupted monster smashed through a silver fence, trailing black blood across the ground as it charged headlong into the Ancestral Cemetery outside Star City.
More than a dozen Bone Beasts chased after it. Some had broken ribs, some were missing half their jaws, and dark red muscles wrapped around their skeletons. Yet they ran faster than one another.
"Stop! You can't go in ahead!"
The Star Spirit Race mages guarding the cemetery turned pale and immediately cast a curtain of starlight ahead.
The injured corrupted monster slammed into it, and half its body exploded on the spot. But as though it could not feel pain, it forced its way through the starlight and rolled a long distance before prying open a tomb door cracked during the war and burrowing into the underground burial chamber.
The Bone Beasts did not pause for even half a step.
Bi Ren Liang Mou's orders to them had been simple: catch the corrupted monster that had escaped the battlefield, kill the target, then bring back the corpse.
As for what a cemetery was or what tombstones represented, they had no idea at all!
Bone Beast: Abba abba wibby baboo.
More than a dozen Bone Beasts smashed through the tomb door and rushed in after it. The next second, frenzied roars and the clatter of bones came from underground, shaking the entire graveyard.
"Notify the elder!"
"Get those bone monsters out first!"
Just as the guards rushed to the tomb entrance, a tremendous boom suddenly erupted beneath their feet.
The already damaged underground burial chamber completely collapsed.
Great swathes of earth sank downward, and more than a dozen tombstones toppled across the ground. The corrupted monster's head rolled out from a crack, followed