Blood-Bone Altar

"Discovered?"

That was only to be expected. Upon the enormous Blood-Bone Asura Altar, Shadow Red Gauze had originally been the only one present. This was the very foundation from which the red fly people resisted the royal rule of the green fly people.

As the rulers of the world, the green fly people's royal family surely controlled the world's underlying reserves. Since Shadow Red Gauze's headquarters contained only himself, that meant he must possess the capital to contend against those reserves.

"Heh heh, discovered, have we?"

Just as Green's scarlet sand head beneath the Face of Truth had drawn out the Magnetic-Force Star Core, intending to first deliver a probing strike of destruction to Shadow Red Gauze, a puddle of grayish-white marrow gradually floated up from atop an inconspicuous giant bone in a pile of skeletons more than ten meters before him. It slowly took the shape of a wizard.

His water-element wizard robe was crystalline and translucent. He wore a horned skull mask, while gray flames blazed atop his withered-bone magic staff, illuminating the pair of blue-gray elemental eyes beneath that horned skull mask.

He was a Rank Three grand wizard who had descended into the fly people world alongside numerous Rank Two wizards to compete for places on the Seven-Ring Holy Tower Rankings.

Uh...

Green froze. He had not been discovered?

"The Blood-Bone Altar that bears the supreme Asura Fire contains exactly one million, seventy-nine thousand, four hundred and forty-eight bones. It floats upon this Endless Dark River. From the moment you approached the Blood-Bone Altar from beneath the Endless Dark River, I had already seen you."

As Shadow Red Gauze spoke in a deep voice, the icy black river water surrounding the enormous island-like altar suddenly churned and roared. Immediately afterward, one enormous black water-element serpent head