Chapter 3223: Possession
Crack!
A pair of large hands covered in dark-brown armguards with rugged patterns forcibly pried apart the narrow rock crevice, allowing Black Prison's dim crimson daylight to stingily seep into the cave beyond.
Accompanied by a short, piercing howl, a ghastly white spear ground from the leg bone of some unknown creature shot out from the cave's shadows on a foul wind, stabbing at the owner of those hands like a hunting viper—a Bean Soldier of exceptional bulk that nearly filled the crevice entrance.
This Bean Soldier stood nearly a zhang tall, its physique far more robust than that of ordinary Bean Soldiers. Zheng Qing had created it during his early experiments using Dragon Skin Parchment. Dragon Skin Parchment was tough, thick, and highly spiritual, but aside from its high price, it had another major flaw: it often retained much of a draconic creature's consciousness, making it exceptionally difficult to layer Runes upon it. The slightest incompatibility would ruin the entire effort.
The Dragonhide Bean Soldier before them was one of the few successful test subjects.
Its entire body was covered in rough armor that seemed to have been directly hardened and pieced together from untanned dragonhide. Even its face lay beneath a thick visor. Every movement made its joints emit dull grinding sounds. Though its actions seemed somewhat clumsy and slow, it radiated the overbearing pressure of a wild dragon.
Screech—!
The bone spear's tip viciously struck the scaled plates covering the Dragonhide Bean Soldier's forearm, producing a shrill sound that made teeth ache, like wire scraping hard across glass. Tiny sparks even flew.
A faint yellow glow surfaced across the Dragonhide Bean Soldier's armor.
The Diamond Talisman layered within its body had been activated.
Unlike creatures of flesh and blood, Bean Soldiers had no concept