Although this skeleton was roughly humanoid in shape, it differed greatly from a human body.
Its skull bore bizarre grooves and spiral patterns, its jawbones protruding forward. It looked like a carved wolf's skull, yet possessed human facial features.
Its left arm looked as though it had been flattened, only two millimeters thick yet a full foot wide. The palm below the wrist had been stretched out and pinched together at the bottom, making the entire limb resemble a flag with a bone pole.
Its left leg had an extraordinarily sharp foot, which was also longer than the right by a segment.
It was as if the left foot had been reforged through some special hammering method, like bent steel being hammered into shape.
The left foot had been beaten into an extended, conical bone spike, resembling a Western bone sword. The right leg retained its normal shape, but its upper end had fused with the skeleton, losing its joint.
After digging out the skeleton, the middle-aged man removed its skull.
He then set it atop the cervical vertebrae of his own body. The width at the bottom of the skull fit perfectly, and once the two were joined, they became a skeletal staff.
The flawlessly white bones resembled porcelain and possessed a strange beauty.
Next, he removed the spine from the strange skeleton and thrust it into his own flesh.
His own spine could no longer withstand the power of his current soul, but this skeleton's spine had endured who knew how many years of tempering by the sacred fire from before Lucifer's fall. It could fully bear his soul and serve as its vessel.
From the moment he entered the cave, it had been constantly bathed in sacred fire.
Among the bizarre bones frozen into the walls on