Chapter 609 - 589: Law!
Chapter 609: Chapter 589: Law!
Inside the bone sphere, billions of tons of gravity and the crushing weight of Boneification violently compressed from all directions.
The surface temperature of No. 18’s chassis instantly soared to three thousand degrees. Her dark green Spiritual Remains Steel skeleton groaned under the overwhelming pressure, and faint sparks of energy burst from her joints.
[Warning: External structural pressure exceeds the safety threshold by 217%.]
[Engine overload protocol... activated.]
[Energy Core output increased to 300%. Overload countdown: 100, 99, 98...]
Engine overload pushed her to the absolute limit. It could only last for one hundred seconds. But it was enough. Enough to tear everything apart!
Frenzied Magic Power erupted from No. 18’s entire body. She abandoned her resistance against the entire Bone Prison, instantly channeling all her energy into her arms.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Each punch was stronger than the last as colossal power poured out in a violent torrent.
CRACK! CRACK, CRACK!
Spiderweb-like cracks surfaced on the massive bone sphere without warning. A split second later, the entire giant cage violently exploded from the inside out!
BOOM—!
The moment billions of bone fragments blasted apart, a dark beam of light shot out from within. It was faster and more brutal than before!
Before Skeleton Duke even had time to reconstruct his defenses, that streak of light was already upon him. It was fast! Unbelievably fast! He only had time to cross his four bone arms over his chest in a desperate guard.
BANG!!!
No. 18 landed a vicious whip kick right where his bone arms intersected. The four arms, as hard as the keel of a battleship, snapped instantly. Bone fragments scattered in all directions. Skeleton Duke was sent flying by the tremendous force, tumbling dozens of times through the void.
Before he could even steady himself, No. 18 was right on his heels.
With one punch, she shattered his left shoulder. With one elbow strike, she snapped his spine. And with an incredibly ferocious knee strike, she utterly pulverized the Bone Armor shielding his entire chest!
CRACKLE!
The shattering of his Bone Armor sounded like a chain of detonating thunder. The dark green Soul Fire in Skeleton Duke’s eye sockets flickered violently, nearly dispersing under the sheer, tyrannical brunt of her brute force.
He thought in horror, "How could pure physical strength reach such a level?!"
He frantically invoked the Bone Transformation Law, trying to reconstruct his protective barrier, but No. 18’s assault left absolutely no gaps.
Pursuit, elbow strikes, palm chops, backhand blows! The void was filled with the afterimages of her fists. Each strike carried the pure kinetic energy of dozens of times the speed of sound, savagely pummeling the veteran Star Thief like a punching bag!
The final strike. No. 18 surged upward. Her right leg rose high like an executioner’s guillotine, carrying a blazing white light capable of tearing through the sea of Magic Power, and ruthlessly crashed down!
RIP—!
Skeleton Duke’s skeletal head was stomped cleanly down the middle, shattering on the spot! The unparalleled, violent overload energy surged straight down his cervical vertebrae, detonating his bone armor from the inside out.
BOOM!!!
From head to toe, he crumbled inch by inch.
[Countdown: 87, 86...]
No. 18 hovered in mid-air. The boiling steam rolling off her body instantly froze into ice crystals in the vacuum. Her icy blue eyes coldly swept over the dead silence.
However, the battle was not over.
The millions of bone fragments floating in the starry sky did not scatter. Instead, as if drawn by some invisible gravity, they began vibrating synchronously at a bizarre frequency. Every speck of bone dust wildly multiplied, sprouted, and entwined in the void, looking like a colossal Demon tree breaking through the soil of nothingness!
A thick spine over ten meters in diameter rose from the center. Immediately after, twenty-four pairs of curved ribs, each a hundred meters long, stretched outward like steel arch bridges, intertwining to form a magnificent bone cage large enough to house a skyscraper. Two colossal arms, forged from thousands of layers of dense bone plates, tore through the void. Their fingers were like swords, and eerie Necromancy Ghost Fire danced at their fingertips.
Following that emerged a hideous skeletal head over forty meters in diameter. Within its two cavernous hollow Abysses, the two clusters of dark green Soul Fire that were on the verge of dying out frantically surged to a hundred meters tall!
A ghastly white colossus, three hundred meters tall, slowly straightened its spine in the sea of stars.
At this moment, an icy dead silence shrouded the battlefield.
Boneification reconstructed his divine body, and the Undead granted him immortality! Empowered by the dual Laws, as long as his Soul Fire remained unextinguished, he would never rest.
This was Skeleton Duke’s alternate form—the White Bone Giant Statue!
"A clunky piece of iron with nothing but brute strength... Did you really think you could slay a god?" The statue unleashed a thunderous spiritual roar, its soundwaves sending ripples through the surrounding void.
BOOM!
The White Bone Giant Statue raised its mountainous, ghastly white claw. Casting a shadow of death that blotted out the starry sky, it smashed down right on top of No. 18!
Seventy-two seconds remained on the engine overload countdown!
There was no such emotion as "fear" in No. 18’s database. With her Anti-Gravity Force Field roaring in full reverse load, she transformed into an ascending incandescent silver sword, colliding head-on with the descending mountain!
RUMBLE—!
Shockwaves blasted in all directions from the point of impact, kicking up a visible Magic Power Storm across a radius of dozens of kilometers.
Bone fragments splattered. The outer layers of bone blasted to pieces under the bombardment of her Spiritual Remains Steel Fists. One layer, two layers, three layers—No. 18’s fists drove into the White Bone Giant Statue’s body like a supersonic armor-piercing shell, crushing another layer of bone defense with every inch she penetrated.
However, the newly regenerated bones were faster!
The authority of the Bone Transformation Law was fully displayed in this moment. For every inch No. 18 smashed through, three to five inches of new bone wildly proliferated from deep within the fissures. It was as if endless patches of white coral were savagely growing right in front of her fists.
No. 18’s rushing speed rapidly dropped: twenty times, ten times, five times. She came to a dead stop!
Her fists were stuck inside Skeleton Duke’s body, enveloped from all directions by the frenziedly growing bone matter, unable to advance another inch.
Then, she sensed an anomaly. The luster on No. 18’s indestructible Spiritual Remains Steel Fists changed. The advanced alloy that once flowed with a dark green hue was visibly losing its gleam, transforming into a rough, pale, porous bone-like texture!
Bone matter. Her Spiritual Remains Steel was turning into bone.
[Warning.]
[Power of Laws erosion detected on the body’s surface. The lattice structure of the Spiritual Remains Steel is being forcibly rewritten by the external Power of Laws. Boneification is spreading inward from the contact surface.]
[Current rate of erosion: 0.7 centimeters per second.]
[Engine overload countdown: 31, 30, 29...]
"In my domain, all matter shall regress into withered bone!" the statue’s sinister spiritual laughter echoed throughout the Star Domain.
No. 18 forcefully tore off the Bone Coral surrounding her right arm and violently retreated. However, thousands of Bone Swords and tens of thousands of Bone Spears materialized out of thin air, shooting out simultaneously to completely seal off her escape route! Her maneuvering space was continuously being compressed.
"CRACK."
A soft noise rang out. No. 18’s left leg was caught by a bone claw that suddenly thrust out of the void. A patch of white bone matter instantly spread across the surface of her Spiritual Remains Steel, causing a noticeable sluggishness in the transmission system of her joints.
"Got you, little mouse!"
The White Bone Giant Statue’s six towering arms slammed together in the starry sky. Its palms and fingers acted as locks, carrying an aura of death that crushed the void, striking her from all directions!
At this critical moment, another pair of dark green Soul Fires silently ignited not far away.
The temperature plummeted. The Magic Power in the void seemed to instantly freeze, and even the light became viscous. A dark silhouette, like a phantom stepping out of the deepest nightmare, soundlessly appeared beside Skeleton Duke’s White Bone Giant Statue.
Thanatos.
Divine Statue Netherworld Guide.
Without any forewarning of energy fluctuations, it just stood quietly in the Abyss. The Soul-Harvesting Scythe in its hands was already suspended high above the top of the statue’s head, though no one knew when it got there.
Atop the scythe rested a swathe of darkness that seemed capable of devouring everything. Entwined within that darkness was a suffocating aura of death and withering so dense it couldn’t be dispersed, firmly enshrouding the statue’s massive three-hundred-meter-tall body.
Dual Laws—Soul, and Decay!
Thanatos’s gaze instantly pierced through tens of thousands of layers of white bones, locking directly onto the burning Soul Fire within its cranial cavity. An ethereal, bone-chilling voice echoed directly within Skeleton Duke’s Sea of Spirit.
"Your soul looks quite delicious."