Chapter 1331: The Sealed Army
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Look, between the ninth and tenth vertebrae of this brain fluke. There is an expansion filled with holes. That is the mark of the cartilage being folded.”
The Wolf King pointed at a certain part of the fossil and said to Meng Chao, “So, the front left where these holes point to, and not the front right where the parts that look like skulls point to, is the direction we are heading in.”
Sure enough, they found another fossil of a fierce beast skeleton that looked like a tiger in the front left of the brain fluke’s ejection cartilage. However, it had traces of wings on its back.
Half of the beast’s head was missing, and it was staring ahead.
But its forelimbs, which had terrifying sharp claws, pointed to the right front.
“Go to the right!”
The Wolf King said without hesitation.
Just like that, the Wolf King would stop and carefully identify its deadliest weapon every time it pa.s.sed by a fossil skeleton of a ferocious beast.
It was also thanks to his extensive knowledge that he knew all the famous ferocious beasts recorded in Turan’s epic. He could even vividly describe the entire process of the fierce battle between these ferocious beasts and the heroes.
Many of the deadly weapons of the ferocious beasts were not on their bones.
The ‘fossils’that appeared in front of the two of them had long become uneven and incomplete.
It was thanks to the Wolf King’s deep understanding of the structure of these beasts that he was able to restore them one by one and find the direction of the deadly weapons.
When they pa.s.sed by one hundred and twenty-seven bones of the beasts, the group of fossils in the Black Fog in front of them suddenly became spa.r.s.e and a brand new skeleton of the beasts appeared.
“It’s Here!”
Meng Chao and the Wolf King both felt their spirits rise.
They all remembered that they had set off from the two fossilized beast bones behind them. After taking three to five steps, they would return to the starting point of the triangle of death and the Abyss demonic worm.
But this time, they didn’t see the d.a.m.ned bones of the triangle of death and the Abyss demonic worm.
The brand new fossilized beast skeleton meant that they had stepped into a brand new s.p.a.ce that had never appeared before!
When they carefully observed this fossil beast skeleton, they discovered that it was crouching on the ground and curled up into a ball. It was filled with fear and respect, completely subservient to the absolute strength of the Tulan Warriors.
On its high b.u.t.tocks, there was a huge tail pointing straight ahead.
The two followed the direction of its tail and continued forward. After 37 steps, a path paved by the fossil beast skeleton appeared under their feet, extending all the way to the depths of the dark void.
“I’ve finally walked out!”
Meng Chao and the Wolf King let out a long sigh of relief at the same time.
Meng Chao was secretly glad that he had made the right decision in adopting the follow-up tactic.
If it weren’t for the fact that “Jackal”ka.n.u.s had such a deep memory of the heroes and ferocious beasts of the Tulan civilization, even if he had realized the key to breaking the situation based on his ident.i.ty as an earthling.., it would have been impossible for him to identify the fatal weapons that had so many bones and fossils of the beasts.
So, the s.p.a.ce maze just now was a test of the later generations’grasp of history?
Only those who were familiar with the heroes of the history of Tulan, who were obsessed with their glorious achievements and worshipped the ancient powerhouses, were qualified to admire the splendor of their ancestors?
“However, the history of Tulan ZE is not only the history of these epic-level powerhouses who have the power to destroy the world, but also the glorious civilization and unfathomable technology. It seems that they have been completely forgotten by the people!”
With this thought in mind, Meng Chao and the Wolf King stepped into the pa.s.sage paved with the bones of ferocious beasts.
The pa.s.sage was straight and tilted upward. Soon, it turned into a narrow and long staircase.
The higher they went, the steeper the staircase became.
In the last few steps, the two of them used their hands and feet to grab the skeleton embedded in the ground. Then, like climbing a dangerous peak, they climbed onto a high platform.
“This is…”
Meng Chao and the Wolf King narrowed their eyes and looked around.
They still could not see the edge of the high platform or the existence of the walls.
The surroundings were surrounded by flowing lights and vibrant colors. It was like a fog that was frozen by clouds.
The fog was like a sticky, gelatinous gas that was rolling slowly. From time to time, it would transform into mottled, indistinct heroes and peerless beasts that were fighting and devouring each other.
It was as if the souls of ancient warriors and beasts were still fighting in the depths of the darkness for three thousand years after the sacred mountain temple was sealed. They were enjoying the endless cycle of killing games.
The ground under Meng Chao and the Wolf King’s feet was neither metal nor rock, but seemed to be covered with a thick layer of black humus.
Stepping lightly on it, their feet sank slightly. When they pulled their feet out, they could feel that they were very sticky and sluggish.
However, the two of them did not have the time to study the unpredictable gelatinous fog around them.
They also did not have the time to care about the black humus under their feet. What exactly was it.
Their gazes were deeply attracted by the looming army in the fog ahead.
It was a solemn square formation made up of Orc Warriors in armor.
As far as their eyes could see, there were more than thirty orc warriors in every row and every row.
The size of the entire square formation reached more than a thousand people.
The square formation, the wings, and the rear all extended into the depths of the surging fog, seemingly endless and overwhelming.
Although the orc warriors who formed the square formation came from different clans and had different characteristics such as jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, boars, bulls, pythons, lizards, and so on.
However, their bodies were like invisible flames burning fiercely, emitting an extremely intense killing intent.
This made Meng Chao think of the terracotta warriors from Earth’s era that he had seen in the Earth Club.
However, the terracotta warriors had been eroded by time and were highly oxidized. The glaze on their surfaces had fallen off, making them look mottled and uneven.
Every orc warrior in this square formation emitted a light that was between metal and jade, as if they had life.
There were no signs of rust on their armor.
Their swords, claws, and teeth were still sharp, ready to harvest more lives at any time.
Although the orc warriors all closed their eyes and stood silently in the black humus.
Their silence was like a hot summer afternoon, revealing the calmness before the storm.
With the arrival of Meng Chao and the Wolf King, the fluctuations of their life magnetic fields seemed to have broken the silence of three thousand years. The sound of Rolling Thunder could be faintly heard from the depths of the square formation.
The sound of thunder accelerated the dense fog surrounding the high platform.
It was as if thousands of soldiers and horses would rush out of the dense fog at any moment and crush the two of them.
Meng Chao and the Wolf King couldn’t help but tremble from the depths of their bone marrow.
However, they were different from ordinary people. The intense trembling stimulated their courage and curiosity, causing them to grit their teeth and forcefully pull out their legs from the black humus. They resisted the pressure from the burning square formation, it was as if an iron wall had collapsed as they walked towards the sealed army.
The first person to appear in front of the square formation was an indomitable Minotaur warrior.
By the standards of a bull-headed man, although he was tall, he was not too thick. He was severely dehydrated, like a dead tree.
The totem armor on his body seemed to have lost most of its vitality and could not repair itself. It was filled with crisscrossing cracks and holes that penetrated his body. One could see the holes in his bones and internal organs.
The strange thing was that whether it was his face that was only skin and bones, or the hair and skin that were exposed in the air, or the bones and internal organs that could be observed through the holes in the totem armor.., all of them had a dull metallic texture.
It was hard to tell whether this was a highly dehydrated mummy or a statue that looked fake.
Just like the people of the Earth era, they could not tell whether the so-called terracotta warriors were simple terracotta warriors or whether they were sealed in yellow clay by loyal warriors who were willing to fight for the emperor.., from the human world all the way to the netherworld.
And on this bull-headed warrior, the most eye-catching thing was not his face or the material of his flesh and blood.
Instead, it was his fist, which was even larger than Meng Chao’s head, which was wearing a helmet.
No, each of the fingers of this pair of fists was emitting an extremely strong b.l.o.o.d.y smell. It was not just simply huge.
The fists were also full of b.u.mps. It was unknown whether they were bone tumors that grew out from the inside or were embedded in the bones by force, but they originated from the hardest broken bones on the Totem Beast’s body, it made the fists look like extra-large meteor hammers.
On the “Meteor Hammers”, there were circles of extremely thick blood vessels and nerves. Even though they had long dried up and withered, they were like flood dragons that were hibernating in the abyss, giving people a feeling that they were dead but not stiff.
It was as if as long as there were opponents, enemies, and prey that could make the owner of the fists feel intense interest, they would be able to refill themselves. After three to five thousand years, they would once again unleash destructive power that could destroy the world.
“He is…”
This pair of fists that were so huge that they were out of proportion to the Tauren’s tall and mighty figure made the wolf king extremely excited. “He is ‘fist’!”
‘fist’was the legendary powerhouse that the Wolf King had mentioned just now. He had killed the Super Fierce Beast ‘Triangle of death’and twisted off the head of the triangle of death, using it as a warhammer that he had wielded for 20 years.
In the naming laws of the Tulan people, the more awe-inspiring and domineering a warrior’s name was, the more powerful he was, the higher his status would be.
Everyone was eager to see a good name that was extremely popular. If one was to go out on the streets with a name that was awe-inspiring, one had to be prepared to be challenged at all times and be robbed of their name.
The names of the lion-man leader, “Horn of destruction,”and the tiger-man leader, “Violent Blade,”were in accordance with this convention.
However, there would occasionally be exceptions.
That was, when he was a recognized warrior, his awe-inspiring reputation had spread to every corner of Tulanze.
Whether it was the serpent-man who was curled up in the crevice or the eagle-man who was soaring in the sky, they would tremble at the mention of his name.
Whether it was the proud lion-man aristocrat who lived in red gold city or the rat-people who lived on the edge of Tulanze, they could all vividly describe his glorious battle achievements.
When a warrior was powerful to this extent, he no longer needed any awe-inspiring name to show his valor.
In other words, no matter what name the Warrior had, his name would immediately become the synonym of “The strongest”!