NOVPUBChapter 90: Chapter 92: The Giant Beasts Chief!_1
Chapter 90 -92: The Giant Beasts Chief!_1
[You maintain your invisibility status and head towards the path on the left.]
[After traveling towards the left for a while, you see numerous stone buildings looming in the distance.]
[You quickly approach, and inspect them closely…]
[These buildings, also made of huge stones, appear rudimentary in comparison to the grand mausoleum that you saw before.]
[Monstrous, uneven stone blocks are haphazardly piled, the gaps between them large enough for you to slip into.]
[These towering stone dwellings are typical residences of Giant Beasts. Surprisingly, you notice no sign of them in this area.]
[Do you want to get a closer look?]
Lin Xun frowns, having assumed this area would be full of dangers. But there seems to be no Giant Beasts anywhere.
Unusual circumstances often contain hidden dangers, so he steeled himself and clicked ‘yes’.
[In your invisible state, you proceed to investigate…]
[On the ground between these large houses, there are countless wide, shallow furrows. It appears to be traces of some massive creature being dragged.]
[Although these grooves are disorderly, they all seem to be pointing in the same direction.]
[You cautiously follow the furrows…]
[After passing the dwellings, you spot a massive pile of corpses.]
[A stinking gust of rotten odor hits your face, the towering pile of corpses in front of you is covered in flies, and the decaying flesh is teeming with maggots. The corpses are dried-up Giant Beasts, shriveled and looking like wind-dried jerky.]
[You sneak closer to inspect, the corpses of these Giant Beasts show a tragic end, but their faces are strangely peaceful.]
Lin Xun immediately goes on alert.
All of the Giant Beasts in this residence area died horribly; their bodies stacked into a mountain.
This couldn’t have been caused by a natural disaster. Was it possible that they were slaughtered by some creature and their corpses dumped here?
Hard to imagine, what kind of powerful entity could wipe out this group of Giant Beasts.
[Do you want to stay and search this place, or return the way you came?]
Taking advantage of the remaining time his invisibility has, Lin Xun promptly clicked on search.
But this area is so desolate. He searched for a long time without finding any valuable items, only worthless junk like ‘rotten meat chunks’ and ‘broken bones’.
The bodies of the Giant Beasts have decayed into dry husks, and the game text offered no option to possess them.
Seeing that he had fully explored this area, he turned back to the fork in the road by the giant roundwood gate.
[You look towards the entrance of the giant gate. The roundwood gate, originally stretching between two cliffs, has been destroyed, leaving only broken remnants.]
[Beside the rubble lies a withered corpse of a Giant Beast. It was the one who had been guarding the gate.]
This Giant Beast has also turned into a dried-up husk?
Lin Xun feels the place is getting weirder and a thought pops up in his mind.
He hastily selects the path leading to the chieftain’s tomb and dashes towards the tomb.
Sure enough, the game text changes.
[Located behind the colonnades, the ‘Fallen Giant Beast Guards’ by the enormous arch door have also turned into two enormous dried husks. Their bodies dried up but their expression is peaceful.]
Are they all dead? Lin Xun frowns deeply.
He can’t even imagine how these imposing, powerful Giant Beasts were slaughtered so effortlessly, as if cutting through chives.
Reading the text display: ‘Met a horrible end, yet peaceful expression’, he had a vague idea.
Attempting to enter the tomb again, this time there were no Giant Beast guards around, but the membrane at the arch remained a barrier.
“It seems that all clues lead to the ‘Chieftain’s Palace’.”
He retraces his steps back to the fork in the road by the giant gate, and the game text again pops up the choice of path.
[You maintain your invisibility and head towards the path straight ahead.]
[After a long trek along the straight path, you spot a grand and towering palace in the distance.]
[You climb the stone steps with all fours and arrive at the palace gate…]
[The palace doors are wide open, strewn everywhere are the bodies of giant beasts, their fate much like you have seen before.]
[Do you want to enter the ‘Palace of the Giant Beast Chieftain’?]
To get the key to the tomb, even if the palace reeks of ‘death’, Lin Xun has no choice but to enter.
He stays outside the palace entrance, using up the remaining invisibility and renewing the skill before pressing ‘yes’ with resolve.
[In your invisible state, you step inside the open palace doors.]
[Large pillars on both sides support the dome of the palace, the interior furnishings carry an ancient primitive style.]
[On the floor of the palace, dozens of bodies of Giant Beasts lay fallen.]
[You look towards the rear part of the palace, atop the Stone Throne sits a colossal figure that commands you to look up.]
[Different from ordinary Giant Beasts, this towering figure, just by sitting, is taller than the Giant Beast guards. The coarse black hair on its body has all disappeared. Its fierce face with protruding sharp teeth has morphed to resemble a human, and where its lethal claws were, are five toes.]
[A dense blood smell lingers around the ‘Fallen Giant Beast Chieftain’, as if there lays a tangible veil of blood over it.]
[The ‘Fallen Giant Beast Chieftain’ stares at the bodies of its kins in the palace with bloody-red manic eyes. It licks at the large patch of blood on its mouth that has not yet dried.]
Even though Lin Xun had speculated, he is still shocked when the truth appears before him.
From the game text, it seems like this Giant Beast Chieftain slaughtered his kins and sucked their blood, leaving behind their dried-up husks.
Why did it do that?
[The ‘small’ bone mace made of gold leans against the Stone Throne. Even a ‘small’ mace for the Giant Beast Chieftain is much larger than your shell.]
[The ‘small’ mace is the ‘Scepter of the Giant Beast Chieftain’, a crucial key to access the tomb.]
Lin Xun’s eyes lit up.
If the scepter remained in the hands of the Giant Beast Chieftain, he knows it would be near impossible to snatch it or kill the monster to make it drop, considering his current strength.
But, the scepter now leans beside the throne, thus giving him a window of opportunity.
[Bold Apostle, what would you do?]
[1. Reveal your presence and challenge the ‘Fallen Giant Beast Chieftain’ one-on-one. The battlefield for a real man is right here! Even if you fail, go out boldly.]
[2. Quietly exit the palace, forsaking the chance to obtain the scepter. Being fearful of life-and-death situations, you disdain going all out. This time you will withdraw, only to come back stronger next time.]
[3. Continue maintaining your invisibility, sneak up to the side of the Stone Throne, seize the scepter while the chieftain isn’t looking. Then brace for the chieftain’s wrath.]
