Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 675 Skeletons

Like a blood-soaked behemoth, fueled by Tang Zijun's temporal power and protected by Chang Lei, the Queen Anne's Revenge, burning with an eerie green light, charged fiercely toward the two towering, dilapidated statues of Poseidon.

The ship was shaking violently, groaning under the strain. Behind the stern, the death vortex formed by the spatial turbulence and the barrier temporarily erected by Tang Zijun were being frantically attacked by a tidal wave of undead mermaids. The ghostly green flames, like maggots clinging to bones, relentlessly pursued them, and sharp, resentful shrieks seemed to be right next to their ears.

"Hold on! Just a little bit more!"

Chang Lei leaned against the ship's railing, panting heavily. His scarlet pupils were fixed on the approaching statue, and he squeezed out the last bit of greedy power in his body to maintain his mental deterrence over the mermaid spirits and prevent more spirits from crossing the turbulent current.

Just then, Chang Lei's eyes suddenly changed. He keenly noticed that the undead mermaids who were rushing to the front and about to pounce on the stern of the ship were noticeably slowing down when they approached the range of the eerie blue light emanating from the two broken statues.

The eerie green flames in their empty eye sockets flickered wildly, like candlelight in the wind, and their shrieks carried an uncontrollable fear. Their momentum of charge diminished sharply, and some of the undead even subconsciously tried to retreat, but were pushed forward by the surging hordes of their own kind behind them.

"Wolf Rider, look at those monstrous things!" Chang Lei shouted hoarsely. "They seem afraid of that broken statue!"

Tang Zijun also instantly noticed this subtle change. His deep black eyes swept over the undead who were cowering at the edge of the statue's radiance, and then looked at the ocean runes on the statue's base that exuded an ancient and majestic aura. His eyebrows twitched slightly.

"These are remnants of divine power. They are servants or guards transformed by Poseidon's divine power. Even if Poseidon falls and the divine kingdom collapses, the awe and fear etched into the core of their existence still exist. They dare not, and cannot, truly desecrate the gate guarded by the statue of the god."

After saying this, Tang Zijun's eyes shone brightly with a deep blue light. She no longer focused on defending the rear and poured almost all her strength into the ghost ship's charge.

Fighting a bunch of undead here is a complete waste of time. Just dash past the statue and you'll find the safe zone.

The ghost ship roared violently, and its massive skull ram, like a blade piercing the darkness, plunged into the crack beside the dilapidated giant statue.

Buzz—

Just as the ship's hull completely passed through the line connecting the statue's base, a strange sensation, as if traversing something cold and viscous, arose.

Yet, the invisible film of water, carrying a sacred aftertaste, swept over everyone, and the boat suddenly shuddered, as if it had plunged from a roaring waterfall into a silent deep pool.

The deafening shrieks of the dead outside the ship, the roar of the viscous seawater being torn apart, and the terrifying oppressive feeling brought by billions of dead all vanished without a trace.

The whole world suddenly fell silent.

The only sounds were the faint creaking of the ghost ship itself due to its high speed and damage, and the heavy, drum-like heartbeats and panting of the passengers.

Tang Cao, Xiao Xiao, and Afran subconsciously looked back and saw that outside the boundary defined by the two broken statues, the surging tide of the dead seemed to have crashed into an invisible and absolutely insurmountable wall of sighs.

Countless undead mermaids piled up outside the boundary, their empty eye sockets burning with ghostly green flames of resentment and rage. Their rotting claws frantically tore and pounded at the invisible barrier, producing faint, muffled thuds and ripples.

But the barrier remained unmoved, keeping them firmly outside, as if separated by a one-way transparent glass, leaving them only to scream and roar in vain.

"Huff...huff...I...I survived..." Tangcao slumped on the cold deck, sticking out her tongue. "These guys are more troublesome than the Outer Path Demons. They're not strong, but there are just too many of them."

Xiao Xiao and Chang Lei were also panting heavily. Their nerves, which had been stretched to the limit, suddenly relaxed, bringing with them an indescribable fatigue and dizziness. Afraid leaned against Fussold, her elegance gone, leaving only deep exhaustion.

However, this moment of relief and relief lasted for less than three seconds.

As everyone, feeling a sense of relief at escaping danger, shifted their gaze from the safe zone ahead to the interior of Poseidon's kingdom, which the ghost ship had just entered.

All the sounds disappeared again.

This time, there was a deathly silence, so shocking it left people speechless.

The heavy breathing on the deck stopped abruptly.

Tangcao's mouth was half open, and the joy on her small face froze instantly, turning into a blank blankness and extreme horror. Afran suddenly stood up straight, her blue eyes reflecting the scene before her, filled with disbelief and shock.

What appeared before them was not the magnificent divine kingdom they had imagined, with its golden splendor, abundant coral, and pearl-paved ground, nor the solemn holy land with flowing divine springs, inhabited by sea beasts, and echoing with divine pronouncements.

Instead, it was an endless...city of death.

The ground beneath their feet was no longer flowing seawater, but had transformed into a plaza paved with enormous, flat, yet riddled with countless deep cracks and impact craters of dark blue divine stone.

The square stretched to the horizon, disappearing into the darkness.

And this vast and dilapidated sacred stone plaza was covered with bones.

Endless, layer upon layer, piled up like mountains of bones.

The enormous, mountain-like skeleton of a sea monster, its ribs piercing the dark dome like branches of a giant tree, its hollow eye sockets larger than houses, exuded a suffocating, barbaric stillness. Scattered among them were countless humanoid skeletons, but far larger than humans, with thicker bones. Many skeletons exhibited strange half-human, half-fish characteristics—a large tail vertebra...

Fin-like connections remain between the finger bones, and their skeletons exhibit a pale white or dark blue hue, eroded by time and some force.

Scattered among the skeletons were equally enormous, yet rusted and broken weapons and armor, including a trident broken like a giant pillar.

A massive golden shield riddled with cracks, a breastplate inlaid with dull gems yet twisted and deformed... like toys of a giant god abandoned on the sand table of death.

What's even more chilling is that these skeletons weren't lying still; their postures all spoke of the brutality and madness of death.

Some skeletons are depicted as biting and wrestling, with sharp finger bones deeply embedded in each other's ribs. Others are tightly embracing each other, as if seeking solace in their final despair. Still others are shown kneeling or roaring to the sky, their empty jaws open, as if issuing a silent accusation or a desperate wail to the fallen gods.

Countless broken weapons were embedded deep in the bones or pierced through the skeletons of giant sea monsters... The whole scene formed a picture of an apocalyptic battlefield frozen in time, so tragic that it was unimaginable.

The air was filled with a deep-seated aura, a mixture of ancient dust, deep-sea salt crystals, divine decay, and absolute death.

There was no wind, no sound, only a heavy, deathly silence that froze the soul.

This once supreme kingdom belonging to the sea god is now just a vast graveyard that has buried countless divine servants, divine beasts, and invaders—a true city of death that has been silent for countless years in the deep sea divine realm.

"This, this is, Poseidon's divine kingdom?" Tang Cao opened her mouth, stood up in a daze, and Xiao Xiao tightly grasped Tang Cao's hand, her fingertips were icy cold, her lips trembled slightly, and she couldn't say a word.

Chang Lei remained silent for a long time before finally squeezing out a sentence through gritted teeth, his voice filled with unprecedented solemnity.

"...Even though I was mentally prepared, this is still a bit too much..."

"Scáthach said that Poseidon foresaw his own death. He was corrupted by something from outside the world, which was constantly eroding his divinity and will, and filled him with endless hunger... I think that the enemy these skeletons faced in life must have been this force."

Standing at the bow of the ship, Tang Zijun gazed at the sea of ​​bones receding behind the ship on both sides and continued, "Look, apart from the sea beasts, these skeletons are all humanoid. I think these must be Poseidon's people, but their deaths... the shape of their skeletons, clearly indicate that they were devouring each other."

"Indeed." Xiaobai also came over, frowning. "That skull is biting another skull, how disgusting."

The Queen Anne's Revenge passed by the skeleton of a sea monster larger than the ship itself. Judging from the various bones covering its body, the sea monster must have been bitten to death by countless Haitians.

Among them were several skeletons that were clearly larger than human skeletons, some nearly four meters tall. Avran noticed this and immediately spoke up.

"Those must be the demigods of the Olympian gods. They have the blood of giants flowing through their veins and are much taller than ordinary people. I never thought I would live to see such a sight... This is simply..."

"Unbelievable, isn't it?" Xiao Xiao chimed in, her lips twitching. "I always thought that Outer Path Demons and Magical Girls were surprising enough, but Nuomi didn't mention anything this outrageous when she came to me."

Nuomi glanced at her and muttered, "As if I knew that."

"There must be many gods in this world, so why didn't the other gods react at all when something like this happened in Poseidon's kingdom? Where are Zeus, Athena, and the other Olympian gods?" Tangcao asked curiously.

"They're probably too busy taking care of themselves," Tang Zijun answered Tang Cao's question. "From what I understand, the Olympian gods began their battle after the Dream God brought the warning. Apollo was the first to fall, and then Mount Olympus began to collapse. Compared to Zeus's kingdom, the impact on the underwater world came relatively late."

"What about the other realms of the gods? Didn't Odin, Gilgamesh, and other gods come to help?" Tangcao asked again.

"The relationship between the gods is not as close as you imagine. The relationship between Odin's clan and the giants has always been strained, so it's impossible for them to support Zeus and Poseidon." This time, Avran spoke up.

"Moreover, at that time, all the gods were fighting, and they couldn't even take care of themselves."

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