With a bang, the spatial rift above the altar stabilized.
"Shadow of Despair, it has been a long time. You took the initiative to contact me this time—what surprise have you brought me?"
A colossal body like a super caterpillar stretching for countless kilometers, covered in grayish-white thorny barbs and wreathed in black poisonous fumes, revealed only its head as it looked down upon Green.
A thousand years had passed since they last met. This Bone Demon, who had once traded the Ram-Horn Skull Magic Staff with Green while they were both Level-3 creatures, had now advanced to become a World Lord, and its life force seemed far from weak.
Through the altar projection, the Bone Demon also sensed Green's unfathomable energy. Two flames of soul within its skeletal eye sockets erupted with dazzling radiance, calming the still-somewhat-chaotic spatial fluctuations around them.
"I thought my gains over these years had made my evolution astonishingly fast. I never expected you to be no less impressive. What a wondrous world!"
The Bone Demon could not help but sigh.
Green stood atop this specially constructed thousand-meter altar, his body wreathed in multicolored runes. His tiny figure, less than two meters tall, formed a stark contrast with the Bone Demon. Leaning on the Extreme Abyss Magic Staff, he let demonic energy coil around the deep azure ice held in the skeletal hand at its tip.
Yet the moment the Bone Demon saw the Extreme Abyss Magic Staff in Green's hand, it could no longer look away.
This!
This was...
"Three-Soul Bonebreaker, my old friend. We have not met for a thousand years, and I have taken a new title. You may call me the Annihilation Tower. I summoned you this time because I wish to complete a major transaction with you. I urgently need