Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

This is a city built entirely underground.

There were no city walls, no planning, and countless buildings were crammed together haphazardly, constructed from planks, stones, bones, and metal, resembling a giant mountain of garbage.

The streets were narrow and winding, filled with puddles, garbage heaps, and rat holes. Countless rat-men scurried about, densely packed like anthills. It was larger, more dilapidated, and more repulsive than the goblin capital city it once was!

The air was filled with a strong stench of decay, mold, and blood, so strong that even from this distance, Liu Nian wrinkled his nose.

However, Liu Nian did not see any signs that either the Demon Bear or the Eagle Clan had attacked this place.

I don't know if they just didn't find the exact location of the Dark Nest, or if they were blocked by the combined forces of the three chaotic races and couldn't get in.

What Liu Nian could see at first glance was the largest bone structure in the center of the city.

It was a massive bone prison built from countless skeletons, a hundred meters high. Each of the prison's bars was made of enormous leg bones and ribs, twisted and intertwined, with a strange green slime flowing from the gaps.

And within the bone cell—

A gigantic, hideous monster was lying there.

Liu Nian squinted his eyes.

That thing was so big that it almost filled the entire bone cell.

From Liu Nian's perspective, all he could see was its exposed back—a layer of scarlet flesh that looked as if its skin had been peeled off, its surface densely covered with...living things?

wrong.

Those are rat people.

Countless rat-men.

They varied in size, densely packed on the surface of the giant beast's skin. Some wriggled, some hissed, and some tore at each other. Their bodies were deeply embedded in the beast's flesh at various angles, as if they had grown together; some even had only their rear ends sticking out...

Even more disgusting, in some places the ratmen would break free from their skin, tearing open a bloody hole where writhing flesh and pulsating blood vessels could be seen. But within seconds, that bloody hole would be filled by other ratmen swarming in from around, continuing to writhe and hiss.

The entire monster resembled a living mountain of flesh, composed of countless ratmen.

Liu Nian felt nauseous.

This thing isn't as big as the ancient war boar that killed the pigmen back then... but it's a million times more disgusting!

"What's that?" Liu Nian asked the rat-man who was leading the way, pointing to the things in the bone cell.

The guide peeked over on tiptoe, a proud expression on his face: "That's our ratman's god—the Rat Giant! He's being implanted with the loyalty command, and once it's complete, he can be sent to war!"

Liu Nian didn't say anything more, waved his hand to let the guides leave, and then slipped into the city himself.

Because it was so huge, it could fit into any place, and Liu entered the city with ease.

As a pig-man, he was completely inconspicuous in this city, so he leisurely made his way towards the Bone Prison.

But the Bone Prison seemed to be right there, yet he was inexplicably lost... He could see the Bone Prison from any corner of the city, but no matter which path he took, he couldn't get there!

Liu Nian wandered around for quite a while before realizing that there was no direct path leading to the bone prison...

But this didn't stump him.

There were no roads in the world to begin with, but as more people walk on them, they become roads...

I'll be the pioneer!

So Liu Nian stopped looking for a way and instead cleared a path directly from his position toward the giant rat!

The buildings and streets in this city are made up of a jumble of things, so making a hole in them is no big deal at all.

Every time Liu Nian took advantage of the fact that no players or NPCs were passing by, he would violently demolish the wall!

Even if his actions were considered offensive and would be known to the higher-ups of the Ratmen, Liu Nian was not afraid at all.

Because he uses the name of a pigman, even if the other party has some suspicions, they will never guess his true purpose!

And so, Liu Nian dismantled the body all the way to the bone cell.

The area around this bone cell is actually quite heavily guarded.

Circles of ratman warriors patrolled the area, while numerous ratman sorcerers and alchemists surrounded the edge of the bone prison, chanting incantations to the giant beast.

In front of them were all sorts of strange instruments—bubbling pots, hissing metal devices, glass jars filled with green liquid, and piles of unidentified chunks of meat and bones.

The monster's head was lowered, obscuring its face.

But one could see countless thick pipes extending from the surrounding instruments, inserting into its head, back, and limbs. Liquids of various colors flowed through the pipes—green, red, purple, some bubbling, some glowing.

With each breath the monster took, the pipes would vibrate slightly, making a gurgling sound.

Liu Nian approached the edge of the bone prison, mingling behind a group of rat-man alchemists.

A rat-man dressed in tattered robes and wearing enormous glasses was giving orders: "Hurry! Speed ​​up the injection of loyalty commands! Those idiots, the Demon Bear and the Eagleborn, are wandering around the network tunnels outside. When they find this place, we'll have the Rat-Rat-Rat Giant God give them a surprise!"

Another ratman sorcerer worriedly said, "Great Alchemist, it might get out of control if it's too fast..."

"Speed ​​it up!" the Grand Alchemist sneered. "Look at those children on it! Thirty-six thousand rat-man pups are fused with it, each one a nerve ending, its eyes and ears! How can you give it commands if you don't erase their consciousness! Speed ​​it up! Speed ​​it up!!"

Liu Nian felt a chill run down his spine.

Thirty-six thousand ratman cubs...merged together...

He looked at the rat-men densely packed on the surface of the giant beast's skin and felt increasingly disgusted.

Just then, a ratman sorcerer exclaimed, "It's happening again! Grand Alchemist! The progress of the Loyalty Command is slowing down! It...it's rebelling!"

The alchemist's expression changed, and he rushed to a huge crystal ball. The crystal ball displayed an image of the monster's brain, with countless lights flashing intensely.

"No! Quickly! Increase the injection rate! All warlocks, suppress it with all your might!"

Dozens of ratman warlocks unleashed their power simultaneously, shooting various magical beams at the monster.

The monster's body began to tremble.

The countless rat-man cubs simultaneously emitted piercing screechs, the sound waves shaking the entire bone cell.

Then, the giant beast opened its eyes.

It was a huge, blood-red eye, its pupils flashing with chaos and madness.

"roar----!!!"

A deafening roar erupted from its throat, causing the surrounding bone cell bars to vibrate.

The ratmen were thrown about by the shockwave. One ratman sorcerer bumped into Liu Nian, who helped him up. Surprisingly, the sorcerer thanked him politely, then stared at Liu Nian, stunned: "You...who are you? How did you get in?"

Liu Nian grinned: "It's nothing, I'm just taking a stroll~"