On the eastern city wall, a massive Bone Serpent twisted wildly.
This was a peak Disaster-tier Bone Serpent, the very one Lynn had seized from Morpheus—the one that had hunted him down when he was still an apprentice.
The Bone Serpent was now thirty meters long and as thick as a water barrel, its entire body pieced together from ghastly white bones.
Three curved horns grew from its skull, while ghostly green flames burned within its eye sockets.
It thrashed frantically, its tail smashing apart a section of the battlements while its head slammed into the ground, leaving a huge crater.
Someone was killing it.
More than a dozen Shadow Guards lunged at the Bone Serpent from every direction, driving their daggers into the gaps between its bones, where threads of Soul Fire pulled and connected them.
Those were the Bone Serpent's weakest points—the gaps at its joints.
The Bone Serpent's tail swept over, sending three Shadow Guards flying. They crashed against the city wall and turned into mangled heaps of flesh.
But the remaining Shadow Guards did not stop.
A small, thin black figure climbed onto the Bone Serpent's back, charging upward by stepping on its protruding bone spines.
He was incredibly fast, moving over the twisting body as though walking on level ground.
The Bone Serpent sensed something on its back and tried to turn around to bite him.
At the instant it turned its head, another Shadow Guard leaped up from the side and plunged a dagger into its eye socket.
The Bone Serpent's Soul Fire flickered violently, its ghostly green glow flashing erratically.
It let out a silent hiss, then violently threw its head aside. The Shadow Guard who had struck its eye socket was flung away, crashing into the crowd and never rising again.
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