Chapter 1029: Besieging the world boss
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
A Giant Skeleton more than fifty meters tall strode across the desolate grassland. Every step sent a faint earthquake through the ground, making the turf rise and fall like a carpet and leaving an enormous footprint behind. Any unlucky abyssal creatures in his path were mercilessly crushed to death, becoming fertilizer for the grassland.
This was the Giant Skeleton, a character players could only unlock in Abyssal World Online by spending five Gold Soul Coins.
Ordinary Giant Skeleton characters, however, were only eight meters tall, nowhere near this enormous.
The Giant Skeleton started with three innate skills: Bone Body, Bone Assembly and Disassembly, and Adaptive Pressure. None seemed directly related to combat strength.
At first, many players thought exactly that. Then some took inspiration from the wraith opening build and banshee possession build developed by Huo Wushuang and studied the Giant Skeleton's skills in earnest, only to discover how deliciously wrong they had been.
Bone Assembly and Disassembly allowed the Giant Skeleton to attach any bones to his body at will. Bone Body let those bones fuse seamlessly with him and become part of his body, while Adaptive Pressure ensured that, as he grew taller, external gravity would not cause his skeleton to collapse. It allowed him to adapt to different gravitational forces.
Ma Hongjun was one of the pioneers of the Giant Skeleton build, though his approach differed slightly from the others'. While the other pioneers focused on adding bone weapons to their characters, he alone kept increasing his character's size and height. By now, he had become a being akin to a titan giant.
The Giant Skeleton's strength capped out at a level-sixty Spirit Emperor. But with his enormous size and strength far beyond that of an ordinary Spirit