Deep within the mountains north of Kanak, inside Dead Eagle Valley.
Inside the underground palace of the Lakheman Royal Tomb, accompanied by Chabakunka's cold snort, a massive ground drawing was outlined on the floor. At a glance, one could see the drawing depicted a plump bird.
After the ground drawing was completed, it rapidly erupted with dazzling halos. Within the halos, a large spirit body manifested in the underground palace. It was a bird-shaped spirit body, roughly two meters tall, possessing a larger and more robust physique and a thicker neck than ordinary birds, along with complex, long tail feathers. Its body was also adorned with profound symbols. It was less like a bird and more like a giant chicken.
Seeing the giant chicken spirit body that suddenly appeared before him, Shahabu, who was currently cursing Chabakunka, paused slightly. As if sensing a sense of crisis, he furrowed his brows, and then furrowed them again.
"""Corpse coffin dead man! You are not Moen, who are you!? What do you want to do!"""
Shahabu shouted warily towards Chabakunka, while Chabakunka stood with his hands behind his back, coldly watching Shahabu before him, and then spoke.
"""Of course, it is to make you quiet, permanently."""
"""Beak Roar, Call."""
As soon as Chabakunka finished speaking, the chicken-shaped Wilderness Spirit beside him opened its beak and let out an extremely sharp soul sound. This soul sound was so intense that even Extraordinary individuals who were not """Silent""" could hear it.
This sharp soul call, known as'Soul Penetration', caused everyone present who heard it to feel a tearing pain in their consciousness. Amidst the piercing silent shriek, Shahabu and his subordinates covered their heads and retreated one after another. They felt as though their souls were trembling at that moment, and their heads were being torn apart.
"""Pre...cept..."""
Amidst this soul shriek, Shahabu muttered the declaration with trembling words. In an instant, the firm belief brought by fervent faith filled the hearts of him and his subordinates. The steadfast effect brought by the precepts allowed them to barely resist the powerful soul formation roar. However, a small portion of Shahabu's subordinates, due to their naturally weaker souls, had their souls scattered before Shahabu's precepts could cover them, and they stared blankly ahead.
Naifnis, hiding on the beam, couldn't help but cover her ears amidst the shriek, but this couldn't stop the screaming from continuously tormenting her soul. Both she and the Soul Xu within her body couldn't help but feel pain. Dorothy in the distance also felt the aftershock of the shriek, muttering with a furrowed brow.
"""Is this... a wide-area soul attack?"""
Finally, the shriek of the chicken-shaped Wilderness Spirit stopped after a relatively short duration. The entire spirit body instantly became much dimmer. Inside the underground palace, the Savior Sect soldiers successfully covered by the precepts, as well as Shahabu, were all sweating and panting heavily, completely displaying expressions of surviving a disaster. As for the soldiers with weaker souls, their souls had already scattered before the precepts covered them. They stood in place with somewhat dull expressions, their heads and hands slightly shaking, seemingly trying to recover to their original state.
Facing the scene before him, Chabakunka spoke once again with soul language.
"""Come... come... to me. I am the Beacon of Souls, your Beacon..."""
After Chabakunka finished speaking, everyone present suddenly felt a sense of detachment in their hearts, feeling their bodies become very light, as if they wanted to shed heavy clothing and float away. Shahabu, upon feeling this illusion, immediately took action to suppress it using precepts.
Immediately, his and his soldiers' resistance to this feeling increased significantly. However, those soldiers who had been deeply affected by the shriek before the precepts had covered them were not so lucky. After feeling the urge to float away, they decisively accepted this feeling, shedding their heavy burdens and floating upwards.
From other perspectives, the souls of these soldiers directly detached from their bodies at Chabakunka's words, gently floating towards Chabakunka. Facing the floating souls, Chabakunka opened his mouth, and instantly those souls transformed into wisps of eerie green soul fire, surging towards Chabakunka's mouth and being absorbed into his body. Shahabu, who had just recovered, couldn't help but feel rage surge in his heart upon seeing this scene!
"""Damn corpse coffin dead man! Die!"""
Roaring, Shahabu drew his revolver and began firing at Chabakunka repeatedly. After a burst of gunfire, the flying bullets hit Chabakunka's body but did not penetrate him. They merely shattered the tough external bone ash on the surface of his skin consecutively, causing him to stumble back a couple of steps.
The bone ash on Chabakunka's body came from a rune seal created by a Bonecrafter's ability. It could mix bone ash with sand and automatically cover the body to form armor, shaping its appearance based on the soul. Ordinary bullets alone could not break through his defense with just one round of shooting.
"""Shoot him! Kill him!"""
Seeing that the gunfire had no effect, Shahabu immediately ordered his subordinates to unleash a volley at Chabakunka. While the soldiers were slowly recovering from the daze brought by the shriek and preparing to raise their guns to fire, Chabakunka had already taken a new step.
With a wave of Chabakunka's hand, another vast ground drawing appeared out of thin air on the floor of the underground palace. This drawing, emitting a faint glow, depicted a thick, large snake with four limbs. Within the halos, a new Wilderness Spirit appeared on the scene – it was unmistakably a giant lizard, seven or eight meters long, with mottled runes painted on its body.
"""Sand Tongue, consume My Spirituality, erode this land, become the spirits here, manifest as earth."""
The moment the giant lizard-shaped Wilderness Spirit appeared, Chabakunka commanded it with soul language. In an instant, that soul giant lizard immediately began to roar silently in the void. Under the giant lizard's silent roar, the environment both inside and outside the underground palace underwent changes.
Inside and outside the underground palace, the sand and Stone that had been quietly piled on the ground began to levitate on their own at this moment, as if being swept by a fierce wind, surging directly towards the direction of the main hall within the underground palace, gathering upon the giant lizard's soul. The soldiers who had been preparing to raise their guns to fire had their eyes obscured by the upheaval of sand and Stone, instantly making it difficult to aim. By the time they recovered, they saw that before Chabakunka, there was now a giant lizard constructed purely from sand and Stone, a Sand Giant Lizard seven or eight meters long, glaring fiercely at them.
"""Fire!"""
The Savior Sect soldiers did not hesitate to pull their triggers, firing ammunition towards Chabakunka. However, they were all blocked by the Sand Giant Lizard in front of Chabakunka. As the bullets were swallowed by the sand and Stone, this round of volley had no effect whatsoever. Seeing this scene, Shahabu's face couldn't help but darken.
Without hesitation, Chabakunka ordered the Sand Giant Lizard to launch an attack on Shahabu and his men. The Sand Giant Lizard took a stance and charged directly towards Shahabu. Upon seeing this, Shahabu immediately threw a rune seal to dispel undead, intending to expel this strange spirit before him. However, under Chabakunka's blessing, the Sand Giant Lizard completely ignored the effect of the spirit dispelling rune seal, knocking Chabakunka to the side. Just as the Sand Giant Lizard was about to swallow the terrified Shahabu in one gulp, an anomaly suddenly appeared on the scene.
Behind the stone columns, beside the steps, in the sand... in various dark corners of the underground palace's main hall, several figures in different attire suddenly appeared. They raised the firearms in their hands and shot at Chabakunka. These were Corpse Puppets that Dorothy had sneaked in during the chaos. Seeing the Sand Giant Lizard actively attacking, they all acted together and launched an assault on Chabakunka.
After observing the brief exchange between Shahabu and Chabakunka, Dorothy immediately recognized the power of this unfamiliar Corpse Coffin before her and realized that the battle between him and Shahabu would be one-sided. At this moment, watching from the sidelines and hoping for both sides to suffer losses was definitely not a wise choice. Helping the weaker Shahabu's side against Chabakunka was the correct choice.
That chicken-shaped Wilderness Spirit of Chabakunka's caused Dorothy headaches from a distance with just one cry and nearly incapacitated Neff on the beam. If there was a second cry, Neff, being so close, would be in danger. Now that soul chicken was still silent after the first cry, seemingly preparing for a second one. Dorothy had to resolve the situation before this second cry was unleashed. As long as this unfamiliar Corpse Coffin was dead, the remaining Shahabu would be easy to deal with.
The Corpse Puppets hidden in the underground palace suddenly appeared, preparing to shoot at Chabakunka. However, as if having foreseen it, the Sand Giant Lizard, which had been attacking Shahabu and his men, immediately stopped its attack after the Corpse Puppets appeared. It directly disintegrated into a mass of sand and stone on the spot and gathered towards Chabakunka behind it. At the same time, Dorothy's Corpse Puppets pulled their triggers one after another, and under a series of dense gunshots, high-speed bullets flew rapidly towards Chabakunka from all directions.
And at this moment, the gathering sand and stone quickly condensed around Chabakunka. The Sand Giant Lizard reformed and reappeared, coiling around Chabakunka's body, blocking all the bullets fired by the Corpse Puppets. Chabakunka did not suffer a single scratch.
"Insignificant pests..."
Looking at the Corpse Puppets that had revealed themselves, Chabakunka spoke coldly and silently. Then, he injected more Spirituality into the Sand Giant Lizard surrounding him. Instantly, more sand and stone gathered onto the giant lizard's body, and its size doubled in an instant. With the expansion of this giant sand lizard, the space within the underground palace suddenly became crowded.
Roaring silently, the Sand Giant Lizard charged and rampaged throughout the underground palace, instantly tearing apart and smashing most of the Corpse Puppets. This massive monster seemed unstoppable for a moment in this limited space, and the entire floor of the underground palace began to tremble from the Sand Giant Lizard's movements.
Just as the Sand Giant Lizard was ravaging the Corpse Puppets, Shahabu on the other side finally regrouped. While ordering his subordinates to continue shooting at Chabakunka, he also drew his saber and enchanted it with a talisman. Immediately, fierce flames burned on his saber. Shahabu raised the sword of fire and charged towards Chabakunka, shouting.
The Sand Giant Lizard also returned to Chabakunka's front in time to protect its Lord, and slapped at Shahabu.
Facing the incoming giant claw, Shahabu swung the Sword of Flame in his hand, slashing out large swathes of fire while also cutting into the sand claw. Although the high temperature of the flames and the physical attack of the blade had almost no effect on the massive sand claw, the Spirituality flames produced by burning Spirituality could affect spiritual bodies. The Sand Giant Lizard, whose spiritual body was being burned, let out a wail, and the giant claw that was struck actually partially disintegrated.
However, the power of Shahabu's Spirituality flames was ultimately limited and did not cause significant damage to the Sand Giant Lizard's spiritual body. The giant sand claw merely continued to swat at Shahabu after partially disintegrating, sending him flying again with immense force. Shahabu coughed up blood and fell to the ground.
After dealing with Shahabu, before Chabakunka could even catch his breath, other attacks came at him. In the underground palace, some Corpse Puppets who had survived the Sand Giant Lizard's attack were now charging directly towards Chabakunka, raising their guns and shooting as they ran. Chabakunka immediately controlled the Sand Giant Lizard to reinforce and attack the Corpse Puppets. The charging Corpse Puppet was quickly slammed to the ground by Chabakunka's giant claw, and as it completely plunged into darkness, the hidden fuse on the Corpse Puppet's body began to burn amidst a flash of electric light.
"Boom!!!"
Suddenly, the Sand Giant Lizard's claw that was holding the Corpse Puppet erupted in a violent explosion. Amidst a roar, the Sand Giant Lizard's hand was blown into scattered fragments, sending dust flying everywhere. While Shahabu was distracting the Sand Giant Lizard with his attack, Dorothy had the remaining Corpse Puppets in the underground palace strap explosives onto themselves and charge towards Chabakunka. When the Corpse Puppets were attacked by the Sand Giant Lizard, Dorothy detonated the explosives, using the blasts to destroy parts of the Sand Giant Lizard's physical form. Seeing this, Chabakunka's expression changed.
"What..."
As for where Dorothy's explosives came from, she naturally sourced them locally within the underground palace. Explosives that Shahabu had transported in to blow up the ceremonial chamber were piled up everywhere here. Dorothy could easily find a lot just by looking around.
Dorothy used explosives to blow off one of the Sand Giant Lizard's claws. However, pure physical attacks like explosions cannot harm the Wilderness Spirit that forms the Sand Giant Lizard. After being blown off, the Sand Giant Lizard's hand claw quickly began to recover, with sand and stone re-condensing into a claw. It would soon return to its original state, but "soon"... was still some time.
Seizing this opportunity, Dorothy controlled more Corpse Puppets to rush out from the shadows, charging towards Chabakunka from all directions. Seeing this, Chabakunka's expression changed, and he immediately had the Sand Giant Lizard coil around him in a circle, protecting him completely. Dorothy's Corpse Puppets, upon reaching the Sand Giant Lizard, immediately detonated the bombs on their bodies, blowing apart the parts of the giant lizard they came into contact with, turning parts of the Sand Giant Lizard's body into dust. Then, another Corpse Puppet rushed into the blown-out gap and continued to detonate before the gap could heal, continuing to blast until the gap became larger and deeper.
For a time, roars echoed continuously throughout the massive underground palace. The entire underground palace, and even the entire Dead Eagle Valley, began to tremble slightly. The thick stone columns within the palace swayed slightly amidst the continuous explosions. The entire underground palace seemed to be on the verge of collapse. The Sand Giant Lizard rapidly disintegrated amidst the constant explosions, its recovery speed unable to keep up with the rate of destruction. This pile of explosives transported by Shahabu greatly helped Dorothy.
Finally, after the last Corpse Puppet completed its self-detonation, most of the Sand Giant Lizard's body had completely disintegrated into loose sand, revealing Chabakunka, who was protected deep within. However, by this time, Dorothy had used up all the Corpse Puppets in the underground palace, and there were no more Corpse Puppets to deliver the final blow to Chabakunka.
At this moment, from the dark ceiling of the underground palace, above the swirling dust, a swift shadow fell, rushing into the dust and stabbing directly towards Chabakunka.
That was none other than Naifnis, who had been ambushing on the beam for a long time. The moment Chabakunka was revealed, she jumped directly from the beam, holding a sharp blade, and attacked Chabakunka with overwhelming force. Now that Chabakunka temporarily had no protection from the Sand Giant Lizard, Naifnis's strike was sure to end him.
Raising his head, Chabakunka looked at the assassin falling from above. There was no change in his expression. He slowly murmured.
"Beak cry, call."
Beside Chabakunka, the chicken-shaped Wilderness Spirit, which had finished recovering, obeyed the command, opened its beak, and let out a sharp soul shriek.