My Skeleton Soldier Is Strange - Chapter 208

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Chapter 208
Kim Jae-beom watched the Demons scattering in all directions with a cold, piercing gaze. A smile of assured victory played across his lips.
“Arulan.”
He called out the name in a calm yet commanding tone.
As if answering his summons, space trembled violently, and a colossal rift tore open in the void. A towering figure emerged from within the chasm.
It was Arulan.
My oldest subordinate and most formidable existence.
Arulan’s form, adorned with pitch-black wings upon his back, was both overwhelming and grotesque. The pair of massive wings gleamed with an obsidian sheen, fluttering in the wind.
Observing Arulan with his wings unfurled, Kim Jae-beom spoke.
“Summon the Giant Scorpion Undead.”
Upon hearing the command, Arulan nodded silently. He then extended both hands toward the ground.
From Arulan’s palms, a jet-black mist began to rise. The dark fog pouring forth through his fingertips crawled across the earth like a living entity.
Gradually, the mist took on form. It was transforming into the shape of a colossal scorpion.
Within a vortex of dust and shadowy essence, the Giant Scorpion Undead revealed itself.
The creature, with eyes blazing crimson and a pitch-black exoskeleton, was terror incarnate.
The Giant Scorpion Undead charged ferociously toward the Demons. Wielding their enormous pincers, they began hunting their prey with savage intensity. They thundered across the ground with devastating force.
Eyes burning with crimson fire and razor-sharp fangs were the very embodiment of dread.
The fleeing Demons shrieked in terror. They were utterly overwhelmed by the emergence of such a formidable adversary. Yet their fate was already sealed. The scorpions descended upon the Demons without mercy, tearing their flesh with their claws. Limbs were severed, and entrails spilled forth.
Some Demons fought back desperately, waging a battle for their very lives. They attacked the scorpions with swords and spears, but the hardened exoskeleton repelled their weapons. The scorpions’ black armor was impenetrable, resistant to any assault. The Demons, consumed by despair, were engulfed in frustration and terror.
Ultimately, all the Demons fell prey to the scorpions. The Battlefield became a scene of absolute carnage. The ground was littered with the corpses of Demons, and blood flowed without restraint. This horrific slaughter spoke of the scorpions’ overwhelming dominance.
As if savoring their victory, the scorpions greedily devoured the flesh of the fallen Demons. They grew increasingly formidable as they absorbed the power of their enemies. Their entire beings resonated with the life force they consumed from their foes.
Strange transformations began to occur across the bodies of the Giant Scorpion Undead that had annihilated all the Demons. Their forms wavered and gradually shifted. Their exoskeletons shattered, and from within, a new form emerged. Shedding their old shells, the scorpions advanced toward evolution.
The scorpions underwent a stage of evolution. Brilliant light enveloped their bodies.
The forms that emerged from their broken shells were entirely different from before. They appeared far larger and more powerful. Radiance burst forth from their entire beings, and an intensified aura emanated from them. A tremendous force was felt in their every movement.
Then an astonishing sight unfolded. The bodies of the evolved scorpions began to slowly dissolve. Their forms grew increasingly indistinct before transforming into a black liquid.
The scorpions, now transformed into dark matter, flowed downward and intermingled with one another. Like a living organism, the liquid writhed and converged into a single location. Thus, the scattered scorpions merged into one massive pool.
The black pool rippled endlessly, constantly shifting its form. The undulating surface solidified, transforming into a translucent, gel-like substance. The sight was both bizarre and wondrous.
The gel soon began to take shape once more. Grotesque appendages rose from the pool, gradually assuming the form of a scorpion.
At last, a colossal Giant Scorpion Undead revealed itself. Born from the fusion of countless scorpions, its size transcended imagination.
The giant scorpion rolled its eyes, which burned with crimson fire, surveying its surroundings. As it snapped its pincers and struck the ground, the very earth trembled.
Then it happened.
The giant scorpion raised its head high and unleashed a roar that threatened to shatter eardrums.
“Kuuarrgh!”
The cry resonated through heaven and earth, echoing far into the distance. Everything around trembled in terror.
Then the scorpion suddenly began to move. With its massive pincers, it tore into the ground, ferociously excavating the earth. Amid deafening noise, dust scattered in all directions.
As the scorpion dug, a dark, viscous liquid gushed forth from underground. The black substance mixed with soil, becoming thick and sludgy. The sight was eerie and grotesque.
The black liquid began to dissolve the earth like an acidic substance. The ground melted away, creating holes that expanded progressively larger.
Through the scorpion’s excavation and the black liquid’s corrosive action, the earth was rapidly destroyed. Before long, a passage large enough for the giant scorpion to traverse had formed.
The giant scorpion gazed down at the trembling earth and roared. Then, without hesitation, it vanished into the Pit it had created.
From the sky, Kim Jae-beom, who had been observing the spectacle, slowly descended to the ground. Arulan likewise approached his side.
“Let’s go.”
Kim Jae-beom murmured briefly and took a step toward the corridor. Arulan followed silently in his wake.
The two figures disappeared into the Underground Tunnel carved by the Giant Scorpion. Their forms grew increasingly faint in the darkness, until they vanished without a trace.
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Time flowed swiftly, and an hour had passed. Kim Jae-beom and Arulan finally emerged onto the surface after traversing the dark and desolate Underground Tunnel. The harsh sunlight pierced their eyes, and though their vision blurred momentarily, it soon cleared. As their sight adjusted, a wondrous and breathtaking vista unfolded before them.
An endless Sand Desert stretched before their eyes, suffused with cool, crystalline blue light. The vast expanse appeared boundlessly expansive. Though the environment was barren and desolate, it possessed its own enchanting beauty. The interplay of fine sand scattered by the wind and the azure sky created a magnificent spectacle. Gentle, undulating sand hills extended endlessly like waves.
Standing alone in the heart of the desert was a towering, colossal presence—the Undead Scorpion. Its immense form and oppressive aura commanded the full attention of Kim Jae-beom and Arulan. Countless smaller scorpions circled around it.
The Giant Scorpion paid no heed to the smaller scorpions orbiting it, extending its pincers to snatch them from the air. Without hesitation, it hurled them into its maw. The sickening crunch of shattering bone and pulverizing flesh echoed across the desert. The Undead Scorpion devoured its own kind with cold, merciless brutality. The smaller scorpions had no chance to flee the approaching massive pincers, becoming prey in an instant. Without resistance, they fell victim to their fate, consumed by the colossal predator.
Then came the moment.
Elongated wings began sprouting from the Giant Scorpion’s back. The wings grew progressively larger.
Soon the scorpion unfurled a pair of wings that had erupted from its back. The wind generated by those wings scattered sand and swept across the desert.
With its massive wings spread wide, the Giant Scorpion kicked off the ground and soared into the air. With each beat of its wings, it climbed higher into the sky.
The towering Giant Scorpion opened its maw wide. Then it began spewing forth the contents of its mouth in all directions. What poured from its jaws were countless smaller Undead Scorpions.
Undead scorpions falling from the sky.
As the scorpions continued to rain down, the desert was soon blanketed in black Undead Scorpions.
The Undead Scorpions that fell upon the desert began moving in unison. They burrowed through the sand, tunneling into the depths below. As the smaller scorpions disappeared into the earth in swarms, countless holes appeared across the surface.
The Undead Scorpions that had infiltrated underground carved tunnels as they traversed the sand. They dug with an almost unbelievable speed.
The Underground Passages created by hundreds and thousands of scorpions were intricately woven in three dimensions, resembling an ant colony.
Yet danger lurked even in the once-peaceful desert. Monsters concealed within the sand had reacted to the movement of the Undead Scorpions.
Monsters burst forth toward a passing swarm of scorpions.
In an instant, the underground desert became a scene of chaos. Within the narrow corridors, Undead Scorpions and monsters clashed ferociously against one another.

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