Tiga!!!

At that moment.

Even Lin En froze for a moment when he saw the enormous skeleton standing several meters tall.

The green flames blazing all over his body, coupled with the massive black scythe twice a person's height, gave him an indescribably oppressive presence in the pitch-black night.

"Heh."

The flames in the enormous skeleton's eye sockets flared as he rasped:

"What? Too scared to speak?"

Hana Ye backed away in terror as well, hiding behind Lin En at an almost unimaginable speed and clinging desperately to the strips of cloth at his waist.

Although she knew Lin En was a terrifying monster too, but... but...

This one was just too big!!

"Lin En! Lin En! (ΩДΩ) What do we do?!"

But Lin En didn't answer. He only murmured:

"Holy crap... is this an actual skeleton monster?"

The enormous skeleton sneered, another jet of flame shooting from his nostrils. His massive body advanced, each step making the ground rumble thunderously.

"Heh, didn't I just tell you not to be too greedy? I already gave you a chance, and you were the one who failed to appreciate it. In this world, no one who crosses our [Crimson Esoteric Order] comes to a good end. You chose this path yourself, so don't blame me."

Lin En murmured:

"It really is a Western fantasy world."

The skeleton's eyes flashed as he said coldly:

"Hey! Are you even listening to me?! What are you mumbling about over there?!"

Lin En immediately snapped out of it. Spreading his legs slightly as he faced the enormous monster, he smiled.

"Nothing, I'm just a little hyped. I usually only saw things like skeleton monsters in games before. I never expected a game to come to life today, so of course I'm a little excited."

The skeleton's gaze turned cold, murderous intent rising.

"You're at death's door, and you still dare to smirk at me!"

He abruptly raised the enormous scythe in his hand and brought it crashing down at Lin En's head.

Boom-

A tremendous crash rang out.

Amid Hana Ye's cries of "Aaaaaah! (ΩДΩ)," Lin En leaped out of the shock wave with her tucked under his arm, landing steadily more than ten meters away like a red-crowned crane.

He smiled faintly, utterly debonair.

"Hey, you're just going to kill me without a second thought? Don't you really want to know what I am?"

The enormous skeleton turned, flames burning in his eye sockets.

"Heh, I've dealt with your [Abyssal Species] before. You tentacle monsters did have your glory days, but ever since the war of the gods shattered you, you haven't recovered in thousands of years. And if you can descend into the real world so easily, you're at most an elite among small fry."

"You think killing a couple of humans makes you invincible?"

In truth, once he had confirmed that Lin En was an aberration possessing Lin Ke's body, he had actually relaxed.

Because for the truly powerful beings in the Spirit Realm,

the barrier to reality wasn't so easy to breach.

And he...

He was an elite among elites, sitting just below that threshold.

"Of course."

He stared at Lin En and rasped, power erupting throughout his body.

"Those bells yesterday were an exception."

Lin En immediately smiled.

"Oh? Then have you ever wondered for whom the bells tolled last night?"

Holy crap! (๑＞︶＜)و Lin En, that was nice! A killer line right out of your mouth! All that studying how to act (bleep-) before transmigrating wasn't wasted! I misjudged you!

The skeleton sneered as he faced him.

"Heh, young man, bluffing isn't a good habit."

Lin En said nothing.

The breeze fluttered through Lin En's bangs, lifting the cloth at his waist as well.

The corner of his mouth curled upward.

He reached out and dropped the 0ДQ-faced Hana Ye onto the ground with a thud.

"Although I don't really like acting (bleep-), since you put it that way, I won't hold anything back."

With a broad smile on his face, he loosened his wrists and strode barefoot toward the skeleton.

"Oh, right."

"I'm not from the [Spirit Realm]."

He looked at the 1345/1000 satiety on his panel, then casually clicked the advancement option.

And almost the very instant he clicked confirm,

Creak-

It was like a low moan from the warped void, or a slight loosening in the curtain of reality. All the roiling black mist along the street seemed to freeze in an instant.

At the same time, the streetlights along the surrounding streets began flickering with a series of clicks, as though some anomaly were interfering with them.

At that moment.

An indescribably twisted aura began pouring out of Lin En's body.

In an instant.

The enormous skeleton shuddered, his massive body instinctively retreating a step.

"What?"

He sensed that something was wrong.

The corner of Lin En's mouth remained slightly raised as he walked steadily toward him, step by step.

"I mean..."

"Do you actually know? Those bells yesterday weren't ringing because of some manipulation, but because..."

"I had arrived."

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle-

In an instant, the skin of his feet split open first, pitch-black tentacles blooming like flowers. Then came his legs, his big (bleep-), his torso, and his shoulders.

At that moment, it was as though an utterly twisted soul of calamity had finally grown sick of the confines of this human body. With a savage shriek, as though embodying every impurity and disaster in the world, it burst thunderously from the boy before him.

The flames in his eye sockets instantly trembled, nearly going out.

His enormous body rumbled backward.

In that instant.

A sudden, urgent peal thundered from the distant tower.

Once!

Twice!

All the way to seven! Eight! Nine!

Those tremendous tolls seemed intent on striking the souls of everyone in the city, issuing the highest warning of impending calamity to every living being.

And amid those blooming, wildly dancing tentacles, Lin En saw the black mist in the sky disperse. The enormous rift stretching from east to west watched him like a demon's eye.

Vaguely, light seemed to spill down.

"Do you want to know who I am?"

At that moment.

Certain images from his previous life, before he transmigrated, suddenly surfaced in Lin En's consciousness.

Amid that calamitous upheaval, he slowly stretched his slender, long-fingered boy's hand toward the sky, slowly but resolutely.

In an instant, he threw back his head and roared that name.

"Tiga!!!"

In a flash, dazzling blood-red light enveloped his entire body.

Hana Ye (ΩДΩ): "Aaaaaah!!!"

Skeleton Lord: "!!!!"

[Ding! Hana Ye's Sanity -70!]

[Ding! Skeleton Lord Salgon's fear of you +80!]

[Ding! Igor's fear of you +100!]