Chapter 498: Abyss Ant King’s Skeleton


    Upon catching sight of the golden chest before him, Song Jian finally heaved a sigh of relief. After all, this mission was time-sensitive and the penalty for failure was a reduction of one level.


    Song Jian was already at level 24, and every increase in level required several times the prior experience. Falling a level meant that all his efforts over the past few days would be for nothing.


    Checking the time, Song Jian saw that he had more than forty minutes left. He should have ample time. He carefully approached the golden chest.


    The closer one gets topleting a mission, the more cautious one has to be. He wasn’t sure if one more step would render the mission aplished and reward him handsomely or turn out to be a trap, a metaphorical abyss that would cost him his life.


    Just as Song Jian was about to reach the chest, he suddenly felt a dark shadow rushing towards him. There were two balls of green me burning in the shadow, which stared at Song Jian as if regarding him as prey.


    “What is this…?” Song Jian was taken aback. He hadn’t anticipated the presence of a monster in thiske filled with Abyssal Power.


    His previous caution paid off. Song Jian quickly reacted, pushing off a rock beneath the chest with his foot and propelling himself backward.


    Woosh~


    A sharp streak of white light shed by, cutting through theke where Song Jian had just been standing. Only then did he get a good look at the creature.


    It was a skeletal creature made entirely of ant bones. Although its size was significantly smaller than that of Toro, the golden ant diator, it was still twice the size of a typical charmed Ant King.<div>


    Its entire body was constructed from a ck shell, but at the joints and seams of the shell, it was clear that there was not a shred of flesh inside this giant creature.


    Deep green light emanated from these joints and seams. It had a pair of broken wings; ck wisps hanged from the edge of the wings, making it look like their extensions.


    “Abyssal Ant King Skeleton, Level 30, Lord-level, first-stagebat power, Vitality Points: 9000/9000”


    “The Abyss is watching you…” The abyssal ant’s skeleton moved its lower jaw slightly, uttering a deep voice in Song Jian’s mind.


    “Thenguage of the Abyss…” Song Jian’s heart tightened. The creature in front of him, although it was only a skeleton, was a genuine abyssal entity.


    Most of the entities Song Jian had encountered so far were creatures or monsters corrupted by the power of the Abyss and possessed only a trace of the abyssal aura—they were not fully transformed. Even the charmed Ant Kings could not be considered true abyssal entities because they did not understand thenguage of the Abyss.


    Only a creature that understood thenguage of the Abyss could be identified as an abyssal entity.


    After finishing its speech, the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton opened its mouth wide and a sharp energy burst forth. This energy stirred theke’s water, forming a water dragon that charged towards Song Jian.


    Song Jian swung his sword at the water dragon, and with a loud explosion—reminiscent of a dynamite st—a column of water shot five or six meters into the air.


    Over Song Jian’s head, there floated a figure indicating over a hundred points of damage. Despite shattering the water dragon, it had exploded into countless ck icicles that hurled towards him.


    The Abyssal Ant King Skeleton moved swiftly in theke that was saturated with Abyssal Power. Just as Song Jian steadied himself, the Abyssal Ant King was already charging towards him.


    A ball of pitch-ck liquid spewed from the Abyssal Ant King’s mouth. Song Jian had no time to react before the ck liquid mmed into his chest.


    A critical damage point of over six hundred popped up over Song Jian’s head. The burning pain in his chest made him groan in agony.


    Staring at the green mes burning in the eye sockets of the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton, Song Jian gritted his teeth. A roar burst from his throat, and his sword radiated a dazzling golden light. He swung his de upwards, striking a golden Sword Qi. The sword energy sliced through the ck water and heavily shed at the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton.


    With that, the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton was thrown back. Its massive body leapt high and let out an eerie shriek in mid-air, before it heavily plummeted back into theke.


    Divine Power inflicted the most damage on abyssal entities. Caught off guard, the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton was unable to withstand the Divine Power that was seething within its body.


    Crack, crack~


    Boom!


    Halfof the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton began to shatter piece by piece. A sudden surge of intense, golden energy burst from within, causing its hard shell to explode.<div>


    For a moment, a green light, akin to blood, ejected from the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton’s body, sttering everywhere.


    A hint of a smile appeared on Song Jian’s lips. He nced down at his chest. He saw his previously silver armor had been heavily corroded, its durability decreased to less than ten points. Even the flesh on his chest started to dissolve, and his vitality was continuously decreasing.


    Song Jian’s eyebrows furrowed—the Ant Soul Orb he was wearing seemed to have no effect on the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton. Just then, the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton suddenly let out a stern howl. The bubbling water of theke started to continuously wash over its body. The green light that was previously gushing out began to recede back into its body, and its exploded body began to repair itself surrounded by streams of ck mist. In no time, the severely injured Abyssal Ant King Skeleton hadpletely recovered.


    With eyes wide and mouth agape, Song Jian suddenly realized how foolish it was to battle an abyssal creature in this environment saturated with abyssal energy.<div>


    “Damn it…” A thought crossed Song Jian’s mind and a pair of steel wings sprung from his back. His body shot toward the sky like an arrow, leaping out of the ckke and flying into mid-air.


    However, the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton didn’tg behind. With one p of its broken wings, it followed Song Jian out of theke.@@novelbin@@


    In mid-air, Song Jian and the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton faced each other. On the ind below, the ancestor of the Golden Ant n, Toro, lifted its head to look at the Abyssal Ant King Skeleton and showed a hint of surprise.


    “This… this is…” It couldn’t sense any trace of the Golden Ant n from this Abyssal Ant King; it was an entity entirely formed by the power of the Abyss. Only its shape and the material that constituted its body—the shells and bones of the Golden Ant King—resembled the Golden Ant n.


    “Sacrilege, this is a sacrilege against the Golden Ant n!” Toro, the ancestor of the Golden Ant n, suddenly became infuriated and let out a roar that shook the sky and earth.


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