All Chapters of The Ossuary King: Infinite Power: Chapter 71
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Chapter 71
"If I fail," Lucien said, "if I die in that gorge, or if it takes me sixty-one minutes, you win the bet. You can keep my God-Slaying Spear. You can use my skull as a drinking cup. And you can stay here in your hot caves and wait to die when the Grave-Tide arrives."Lucien took a step closer to the giant warlord."But," Lucien said, his voice dropping to a dangerous, heavy whisper. "If I win. If I clear the nest alone in under an hour... you will bow to me. You will pack up your entire tribe. You will march your warriors to the Forgotten Village, and you will follow my orders to defend the walls against the Grave-Tide. Do we have a deal?"Kordas stared at Lucien for a long, tense moment. The giant warlord looked deep into Lucien’s eyes, searching for fear, searching for a trick. He saw nothing but absolute, terrifying confidence.Slowly, a massive, booming laugh erupted from Kordas’s chest."HAHAHAHA!" Kordas threw his head back and laughed so hard the sound echoed like thunder. The th
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The giant, sixty-foot-tall Abomination charged. It was a mountain of rotting flesh, screaming mouths, and sharp bone. The ground shook so hard that pieces of the stone ceiling broke off and fell into the dark dirt. The monster raised six massive arms, ready to crush Lucien into a tiny red stain on the floor.Lucien stood perfectly still. He did not wear his liquid shadow-cloak. He had given it to Kael. He only had his physical body, his simple clothes, and the God-Slaying Spear in his hands.The giant monster swung its heavy arms down.Lucien did not jump back. He bent his knees, pushed off the ground, and leaped straight up into the air. He flew right toward the falling fists of the giant beast.He spun his body to dodge the first giant hand. He kicked off the second hand, using it like a stepping stone to jump even higher. He flew right up to the center of the monster’s massive, ugly chest.Lucien raised the God-Slaying Spear. He did not use black fire. He used pure, raw physical s
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Lucien stood his ground. He held the God-Slaying Spear tightly with both hands. He coated the very tip of the black blade in a tiny, highly compressed point of shadow magic. It was a needle of pure void, designed to pierce the hardest armor in the world.The Alpha Hulk jumped. It tried to crush Lucien under its front hooves.Lucien did not move back. He stepped perfectly forward, moving right into the danger. He dropped to one knee, sliding under the jumping monster. As the massive beast flew over his head, Lucien thrust the spear straight up.He aimed for the absolute weak point—a tiny, soft space between the thick black bone plates on the monster's chest. SHRIIING!The compressed shadow magic on the tip of the spear pierced the armor perfectly. The blade went deep into the Alpha Hulk's chest, stabbing directly into its magical core.The giant monster hit the ground behind Lucien. It rolled twice, crashing into a stone wall.It let out one final, weak breath. The bright green light i
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Lucien looked down from his high seat. He looked at the shocked warriors. Then, he looked at Kordas.Kordas was absolutely speechless. The giant warlord stood frozen like a statue. He looked at the nineteen massive skulls on the floor. He looked at the giant shadow-beast. He looked at the hourglass on the rock.There was still fifteen minutes of sand left in the top glass.Lucien had cleared the most dangerous nest in the sector. He had killed twenty Behemoths. He had cut their heads off. He had tied them to a chain. And he had done it all in forty-five minutes, without a single scratch on his body."I believe," Lucien said. His voice was quiet, but it echoed perfectly in the silent cavern. "I have won the bet, Chieftain."Kael, Elara, and Jace let out a huge cheer. Kael ran forward, holding Lucien’s shadow-cloak up in the air. "The True King!" Kael shouted proudly.Lucien gracefully slid off the back of the Shadow-Alpha. His boots hit the ground softly. He reached out and took his sh
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The Forgotten Village was no longer just a place to hide. It was a fortress of war.A few days ago, only the pale, thin scavengers of the Living Ghosts lived here. Now, the population had tripled. There were thirty thousand people packed into the giant cavern. Lucien had brought them all together.The three tribes of the Lower Margins were united for the first time in a thousand years.It was an incredible sight. The different tribes worked side by side. The brutal, giant warriors of the Blood-Iron Tribe carried massive blocks of heavy black iron. They slammed the iron into the stone ground at the bottom of the village, creating a tall, thick wall.Above them, the quiet, fast hunters of the Weaver Tribe moved through the air. They rode on the backs of giant, hairy cave-spiders. The spiders spun thick, white silk. The silk was stronger than steel wire. The Weavers used the silk to tie the iron walls together, making them impossible to break. They also spun giant white nets high in th
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BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Explosions rocked the front of the Grave-Tide. Chunks of white bone and black flesh flew into the air. The green poison melted the magic cores of the skeletons, turning them into ash.For a moment, the front of the monster army was destroyed. The humans cheered loudly."Do not cheer yet!" Lucien commanded coldly. He looked at his System map. The red dots were barely moving. The millions of monsters in the back were pushing forward.Suddenly, the sea of small skeletons parted. Massive, ugly shapes rolled out from the dark tunnels.Lucien’s eyes widened. "What are those?"They were Siege-Undead. Corpse-Catapults. They were completely disgusting. They were giant balls made of hundreds of fat, rotting dead bodies melted together. They had no legs. They moved by rolling over the ground like giant, meaty boulders. But the worst part was their backs. Sticking out of the giant ball of bodies was a massive, long arm made of thick spine bones. The arm held a large, hollow ri
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Lucien closed the System map in his mind. He did not need to look at glowing blue dots anymore. He needed to look at his enemies with his own two eyes."Stay here, Matriarch," Lucien said.Lucien stepped onto the edge of the high balcony. He gripped the God-Slaying Spear tightly with both hands. His shadow-cloak exploded outward, turning into a massive storm of liquid black smoke. His eyes ignited with furious, blinding purple-black fire.He was done playing chess from the balcony. It was time to enter the board.Lucien leaped off the high balcony. He fell hundreds of feet, diving straight down toward the five hundred mounted Death Knights destroying the center of the village.As he fell, Lucien raised his left hand. "Shadows of the True Empire!" Lucien roared. "Rise and ride!"All around the village, the dark corners boiled. Tens of thousands of Lucien’s ghostly knights burst from the shadows. But this time, Lucien called out his elite cavalry.Ghostly horses made of black smoke and
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Lucien stood alone in the empty space between the heavy iron gates and the endless sea of monsters.In front of him stood the corrupted First King. The giant, ancient ancestor of the Saint-Aurelius bloodline raised his massive, glowing broadsword. The millions of skeletons standing behind the giant King let out a deafening, rattling cheer. The sound of their bones clicking together was louder than a terrible thunderstorm.Lucien gripped the God-Slaying Spear with both hands. The jagged black blade ignited with dark, purple fire. He bent his knees, ready to leap forward. He was ready to fight the First King in a brutal, one-on-one duel. But the Eternal Ossuary did not fight with honor. The Grave-Tide did not care about fair duels.Deep in the freezing grey mist at the back of the monster army, a terrible sound echoed. THWOOSH! THWOOSH! THWOOSH!Lucien’s eyes snapped upward. High in the dark sky of the giant cavern, three massive, dark shapes were flying through the air.They were not
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The ground in the center of the village square bubbled violently. With a massive, shaking roar, the Shadow-Hulk pulled itself out of the ink.It was the giant, rhino-like Alpha Behemoth that Lucien had killed and resurrected in the Grave-Gorge. The Shadow-Hulk was the size of a small house, made entirely of solid purple shadow and black smoke. Its giant skull-horn glowed with deadly energy."Crush them all," Lucien commanded from his high vantage point.The clash that followed was spectacular, violent, and incredibly beautiful.It was a war of colors. Pitch-black shadow and purple fire crashed head-on into the sea of dirty white bone and rotting green flesh.The Shadow-Hulk charged first. It lowered its massive, smoky head. It ran straight into the thickest crowd of undead monsters pouring through the broken wall.BAM! CRUNCH! The giant shadow-beast hit the skeletons like a speeding train. White bones flew fifty feet into the air. Dozens of ghouls were crushed instantly beneath the
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Kael stood up perfectly straight. He pounded his fist against his chest. "I will not let a single bone cross this line, my King. I swear it on my life."Kordas looked at the broken wall. He looked at the frightened villagers standing behind them. Then, he looked at Lucien. The warlord raised his giant bone greatsword and rested it on his shoulder."Go kill the ugly bastard in the back," Kordas grunted, a fierce, wild smile on his scarred face. "I will build a new wall out of their broken skulls while you are gone.""Thank you," Lucien said.Lucien turned his back on the village. He walked toward the forty-foot breach in the iron wall. He stood at the threshold between safety and the endless nightmare of the Grave-Tide."Shadows!" Lucien roared.The hundreds of soot-black knights holding the line immediately turned around. They formed a tight, V-shaped wedge formation right in front of Lucien. The giant Shadow-Hulk stood at the very front of the wedge, lowering its massive horned head.