From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 416 Siege of Bones
Inside the lava cave, scorching magma surged and rolled, its orange-red light illuminating the entire cave as if it were a purgatory.

As Lu Heng slashed with his sword, the Lava Demon exploded into a field of lava.

This time, the lava demon did not reassemble its body. Instead, it spread out, covering the area around the lava cave and rising up a strange magical energy.

Tyrese looked at Clyde Saviel lying on the ground and realized that the Skeleton Monarch he had been chasing was an imposter, but there were still many things he didn't understand.

“You clearly exude the powerful aura of a demigod.” Tyrese frowned, placing his sword against Clyde Saville’s neck.

After Lu Heng defeated the Lava Demon, he noticed that the lava it was spewing emitted a strange magical energy, but his attention was already drawn to Clyde Saville.

Lu Heng walked up to Clyde Savile and observed his condition with a serious expression:

“He is a psychic, and he must have received the Bone Monarch’s energy blessing through his class ability, which is why he was able to impersonate the Bone Monarch. I’m very worried about where the Bone Monarch’s true body is. If he has already arrived in Kolos City, things will be terrible.”

Tyrese had already considered this, and he crouched down, grabbed Clyde Saville by the collar, and demanded, "Where is the true form of the Skeleton Lord? Speak!"

Clyde Savile's blood surged, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, but he kept his mouth shut and remained silent.

At this moment, Lu Heng noticed out of the corner of his eye that the Azure Phoenix on the other side had frozen in place, as if the power had been cut off.

Similar situations have occurred before, which means that the connection between the Azure Phoenix and Su Muyu has been severed.

"Mu Yu!" Lu Heng called her name through the communication pearl.

no respond.

After waiting for three seconds, Lu Heng called again, but there was still no response.

Lu Heng looked up at the lava demonic magma covering the surrounding cave walls and saw layers of abyssal energy swirling around the lava layers. He immediately realized something:
"Something's not right. We might be trapped here."

Tyrese had also noticed something was wrong, and he got up and swung his sword at the lava layer on the cave wall.

The sword light cleaved through the lava layer, leaving a sword mark several meters deep.

However, the sword mark did not last long, and the magma healed at a visible speed.

Lu Heng's gaze sharpened, and he activated [Shadow Travel], attempting to pass through the lava layer and escape this underground space. However, as he rushed forward, he directly collided with a layer of abyssal energy shrouded in dark clouds.

This abyssal energy immediately coiled around me, and once my body was eroded by it, unpredictable physical deformities would occur.

Therefore, Lu Heng immediately flew backward to avoid being entangled by the abyss energy.

Lu Heng emerged from his shadow-walking state and said, "We are indeed trapped here."

Tyrese also tried to use Spatial Slash to pass through this layer of abyssal energy, but he failed as well.

He clenched his fist in frustration and said angrily, "Damn it! A demigod-level being is indeed difficult to deal with. We were careless."

Lu Heng turned around, grabbed Clyde Saville by the collar, lifted him up, and demanded, "What is the Skeleton Lord's plan? Speak!"

Clyde Savile, already severely wounded from Tyrese's sword strike, said on his deathbed, "Do you think I'd tell you? I'm in this state because of you all."

While he was on Earth, he had already been captured by the Great Xia military and imprisoned in a magic-suppressing prison.

According to the recruitment rules, after this Abyss Battle ends, he will be teleported back to the Anti-Magic Prison.

Unless he can gain the power to turn the tide in this abyss battlefield.

His only hope lay with the Skeleton Lord.

Only if the Skeleton Lord achieves final victory can he gain power and escape the magic-suppressing prison.

Lu Heng's gaze darkened, and he sneered, "You really are stupid. You still don't know who set you up."

Clyde Savile frowned and asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

Lu Heng loosened his grip, tossing him back to the ground, a mocking smile playing on his lips: "How ridiculous. You don't actually think that the Skeleton Monarch is really an aid you gained from your Spirit Master class, do you?"

Clyde Savile still didn't understand what he meant, and his expression became even more puzzled.

Lu Heng continued, "You've been in contact with Ke Yiming for many days now, haven't you? Haven't you discovered any connection between you two after all this time?"

Clyde Savile retorted, "What exactly are you talking about?"

Lu Heng let out a breath and chuckled, "It seems you really are stupid. You thought the Skeleton Lord was the spirit master you found through the spirit communication ritual, but actually it was the Skeleton Lord who found you."

Clyde Savile's brow furrowed deeper and deeper, but he still couldn't believe it: "Impossible!"

Lu Heng flipped his hand and took out the Blood Scythe, saying, "You should already know that Ke Yiming has the fourth-tier class [Death Agent], and this class comes from this scythe."

"And this scythe was given to you by the Skeleton Lord. If the Skeleton Lord truly regards you as his most important servant, then this rank should be given to you."

"It's a pity that this rank was given to Ke Yiming."

"Based on the information I gathered in the main world, it can be confirmed that Ke Yiming is the main person being recruited this time."

"In other words, the first person to be pulled into this abyss battlefield was Ke Yiming, and his team."

"And you are the cannon fodder that Ke Yiming found. It was he who sent the Skeleton Monarch to find you."

"As for the reason, you would never guess."

"Ke Yiming's entire team are members of the Creator Organization, and the Creator Organization controls the Elemer Biopharmaceutical Group, which is in competition with your Savile Group."

"You should know better than I how bad the competition between you two is."

Clyde Savile was well aware that the competition between the two sides had escalated to the point where they were willing to spend money to hire superhuman mercenary groups to start a war.

Although they later reached a reconciliation, it was only a superficial one.

The Saville family has also cultivated many high-level superhumans, so even if the Elemervé Group wanted to deal with them, it wouldn't be so easy.

Upon hearing the information Lu Heng revealed, Clyde Savile's face turned deathly pale: "Impossible, I clearly received the oracle through a psychic ritual."

Lu Heng shook his head and chuckled, "For a demigod to influence your summoning ritual is incredibly easy. You're merely a pawn sent by the Creator's organization to deal with me within the Great Xia territory."

"Their plan was indeed ingenious; its purpose was to incite a conflict between me and your family."

"No matter which side wins in the end, they will reap the benefits."

"At first, I couldn't see through this relationship either, until I discovered the connection between Ke Yiming and the Creator Organization, and then I understood it."

“And you are truly ridiculously stupid, spending so many days with Ke Yiming without noticing anything wrong with him.” Clyde Savile’s face grew paler and paler, because he knew that what Lu Heng said was true, and many of the details matched up.

He was also convinced that Lu Heng had no reason to fabricate lies.

"If that's the case, wouldn't my family be..."

"Yes, your family is basically finished. Even if you were designed by the Creator's organization, you did commit crimes within the Great Xia territory, and you did become a henchman of the Skeleton Monarch..."

Lu Heng looked into his eyes and said, word by word, "No matter who wins this Abyss Battlefield, either Ke Yiming or I will destroy the Savile Group when we return."

Clyde Savile finally broke down at this moment, reaching out to grab his trouser leg and pleading, "Please don't do this, at least don't hurt the innocent, at least my girl is still very young, she doesn't know anything, don't hurt her."

Lu Heng looked into his eyes and asked, "Do you think Ke Yiming, returning as a henchman of the evil god, is more ruthless, or am I more ruthless?"

Clyde Savile knew very well that if the Skeleton Lord won this battle in the abyss, the power of the undead would spread and even invade the human world.

The Savile family is indeed finished, but it's obvious which outcome is more tragic.

He began, "I will tell you the secret of the Skeleton Lord; his true form is actually..."

His words ended abruptly there.

A cloud of black mist suddenly appeared behind him, condensing into black skeletal claws that gripped his neck and snapped it with a "crack".

When Clyde Savile died, his mouth was open as if he wanted to speak, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Tyrese swung his sword and destroyed the skeletal claw formed from black mist, but it was too late.

He looked up at the slowly flowing magma above him and the abyssal energy clinging to it, his expression turning very serious: "The Skeleton Lord is definitely carrying out some kind of conspiracy, and may have already begun besieging Kolos City. Aureanna is in danger, and we must go back immediately."

Lu Heng swung his sword, cleaving through the magma layer and unleashing a dense cloud of abyssal demonic energy. He frowned and said, "This layer of abyssal energy isolates all connections between technology and magic, and it also seals off space. Unless we find a way to break through this layer of abyssal demonic energy, we won't be able to get out."

Tyrese has already tried; his spatial teleportation ability cannot penetrate this layer of abyssal demonic energy.

This layer of abyssal demonic energy is not only formed from the demigod power of the Skeleton Monarch, but also gathers the power of the abyss, making it impossible to escape by ordinary means.

……

at the same time.

Night fell over Kolos, dark clouds gathered, and lightning flashed.

Dark clouds obscured the stars and moonlight, casting an ominous shadow over the city of Kolos.

Beneath the city, a vast ocean of skeletons, composed of endless bones, slowly surged under the night sky, the creaking sound of bones grinding together like the whispers of death.

Above the sky, amidst the dark clouds, seven bone dragons flew through the clouds.

With each flap of its wings, the skeleton of one of the hell dragons was accompanied by a thunderous roar, and the blue flames it spewed from its mouth seemed capable of igniting the air.

Blue flames, like fiery clouds, pressed down on the city of Kolos, leaving withered vegetation and lifeless landscapes in their wake.

On the city wall, Queen Orianna, clad in magical armor and holding an arcane scepter, stood with unwavering determination in her eyes.

"Warriors, for our homeland, for Quel'dorei, we will never back down!" Queen Alleanna's voice echoed on the city walls, like a burning torch, igniting the fighting spirit of every elven warrior.

Under her command, the arcane mages quickly formed a formation, unleashing magical light that intertwined into a net, activating the city's protective barrier to resist the blue flames of the hellish dragon.

Elven archers on the city walls and arrow towers unleashed volleys of arrows, attacking the skeletal army below.

Arrows rained down, piercing the night sky, each one carrying a love for their homeland and an indomitable will.

The arcane mage's fireballs, frost rays, and lightning storms followed the rain of arrows, falling into the horde of skeletons. Various elemental forces collided in the air, unleashing a dazzling yet tragic light.

The army of 100,000 skeletons moved mechanically toward the city wall, climbing it without any formation, like a group of mindless dead things.

The undead skeletons at the forefront were shot down by arrows, turning into piles of bones that accumulated at the foot of the city wall, layer upon layer, growing ever higher.

The skeletons that surged up from behind climbed the piles of bones, scaled the city walls, and engaged in fierce combat with the elven warriors on the walls.

As more and more skeletons climbed the city walls, the screams of elven warriors began to echo from all around, and casualties gradually started to occur.

Even so, they held their ground and refused to back down.

Queen Aureanna gazed at the massive army of skeletons surging like a black tide outside the city, her expression growing increasingly grave.

Although she had made preparations, the attack of the skeletal army still came too quickly.

To make matters worse, Tyrese and Lu Heng's team had already gone out to search for the Bone Lord.

Without Tyrese's fighting prowess, the defensive strength of Kolos City has been greatly reduced.

What worried her even more was that just two hours before the army of skeletons surged toward the city walls, she lost contact with Tyrese, and the messenger orb did not respond.

Fortunately, she was still able to receive messages from Su Muyu's communication pearl and learned about Tyrese's situation from Su Muyu.

According to the information sent back by Su Muyu, Tyrese and Lu Heng pursued the Skeleton Monarch all the way into the underground lava cave. After that, the space of the lava cave was sealed off, and no information was transmitted out.

During the conversation, she could hear the anxiety in Su Muyu's voice.

This also worried her somewhat, but she didn't have the energy to worry about Tyrese right now, because the city of Kolos was facing a huge crisis.

She raised her staff, unleashing a bolt of lightning, and shouted, "Defend the walls! We absolutely cannot let them breach the walls!"

Elven arcane mages and warriors wielded their weapons and fought against the undead skeletons. These undead skeletons were not particularly strong individually, but their sheer number caused them to surge relentlessly towards the city walls.

Above the sky, seven bone dragons spewed dragonfire and frost, bombarding the city's protective barrier.

The city's protective barrier was on the verge of collapse.

"Fiona!" Queen Oriana shouted as she turned towards the dragonhawk knights' ranks.

"Dragonhawk Knights, our mission has come! Follow me into battle and stop the bone dragon in the sky! Charge!" Fiona drew her spear, leaped onto the dragonhawk, pulled the reins, and soared into the sky.

The Dragonhawk Knight followed Fiona into the sky and pounced on the seven-headed bone dragon, engaging it in a fierce battle beneath the clouds.

The battle grew increasingly fierce, with arrows, magic, and flames intertwining and converging into a dazzling display of light and shadow that illuminated the entire night sky.

The shouts of battle and roars mingled together, forming a tragic war song.

(End of this chapter)