From the day he gained self-awareness, Pala had been a Bone Demon living beneath the vast, boundless territory of the Jialun Bone King.
Back then, Pala possessed only the shoddiest body: a skeleton he had happened to latch onto while still a Nightmare Wanderer. Following instinct, he gradually added to and stripped away at it until it took the form of a Fallen Demon—a long-tailed insect that crawled across the ground, its ugly, distorted face surpassing the limits of what ordinary flesh-and-blood creatures could imagine, like an aestheticless toy model pieced together by a young child.
He wandered dully through the Nightwatch Bone Desert within the Jialun Bone King's dominion, slowly gathering the power of fear within himself. It was the projection of countless nightmare-fragment laws within the Nightmare World. Legend had it that the Nightmare Kings buried deep beneath the earth relied upon this power of fear to awaken from slumber time and again, launching wars of overlapping nightmare invasion to gather more valuable bones and complete their evolution.
Over three thousand years, Pala had been fortunate enough to witness the Jialun Bone King's true form twice in this bone desert.
The first time had been when he followed the Jialun Bone King to wage war against another Bone King. The second was now, when he was about to follow the Jialun Bone King to conquer an unknown world!
Over the long years, Pala had grown from that muddled, ignorant little Bone Demon into a squad captain of the Guluo Clan Fallen Demons beneath the Jialun Bone King.
"Captain, the number of legions the Jialun Bone King has gathered this time is truly terrifying! Not only are there Fallen Demon clans from the bone-desert plains, even the Qiunan Spider-Leg Demons, Zhangxi Biting Trolls, Tianzhu Mountain Beast-Crawlers... Oh, heavens!"
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