Massive bone trees erupted from within, accompanied by countless bone fragments that exploded and filled the sky!
These bone shards reassembled in midair, forming a red-bone giant with three heads, six arms, and a wolf's head atop a human body. Rows of bone spines grew along both sides of its back, curving forward like armor and tightly encasing its body.
"Chief of the Bone Clan!"
The deputy chief's vocal cords had vanished. His voice came from his abdomen—and from the tentacles protruding from his right eye.
He recognized this bizarre red-bone giant.
It was the clan chief from four hundred years ago, the one who had led the mutation experiments at Mire Graveyard, as well as the first infected Marrow Eater to become completely Black Bone.
Its aura had changed completely. It now resembled a terrifying Great Evil Spirit.
It was a dreadful creature whose power was utterly unlike that of these evil spirits—a sublimation of Black Bone's power!
These mire trees—the parent root system of the Marrow Stele—were emitting teeth-grating creaks.
The councilors saw that the roots soaking in the blood spring were gradually turning black.
Tiny mouths grew from the cracks in the bark, madly gnawing at the trunks, while the fleshy tumors on the branches grew even larger.
The crimson sky suddenly darkened.
Even from the ancestral shrine underground, they could now look up through the fissures created where the bone trees had pierced through to the surface.
Through the doorway, everyone looked toward the dim sky.
They discovered that forty-seven Great Evil Spirits from the Grudge-Binders' side were joining forces to cast a curse.
High in the sky appeared a massive ring composed of countless infant skulls.
They radiated intertwining deathly aura as they spiraled downward.
Black evil energy flickered within the eye sockets of every