Both Old Herera and Anders were exhausted. They slumped against a tree while trying to catch their
breath.
“What time is it now?”
Nash shoved his phone, which had run out of battery, back into his pocket.
His push-button phone was in his backpack, and it was difficult to take it out.
Melody rolled her sleeve up and looked at her watch. She had a stunned expression on her face as she
said, “It’s four in the morning. Did we spend that much time inside?”
They began their descent yesterday morning, and since it was now four in the morning, it meant nearly
20 hours had passed.
Heidi massaged her stomach as she said listlessly, “No wonder I’m so hungry…”
Nico smiled. “You’ll have to hang in there. We gave all our food to the King of Medicine!”
Heidi sounded dejected as she said, “But I’m so hungry!”
It had been almost 20 hours since theyst ate, and they had also spent a great deal of physical
energy. Not even the strongest ox could withstand such conditions.
Old Herera said, “I think we still have some food in our tent…”
Anders sighed. “Given our current energy levels, it’ll be difficult for us to continue our journey for
another hour!”
Finn turned to Ken and said, “Ken,e with me to look for some food!”
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Ken nodded and walked alongside Finn into the dark forest.
Nash found an empty stretch ofnd and gathered some firewood to light a fire.
Everyone sat down around the bonfire and rxed as the warmth from the fire washed over them.
Nico spread some hay beside him and said, “Derek, you might as welly on your stomach since you
can’t sit properly!”
The corner of Derek’s lips jerked.
However, there was nothing else he could do.
Nash asked, “How do you feel now? Have the fingers… loosened up?”
Derek pouted. “They’ll burrow even deeper if I even loosen my grip the tiniest bit…”
“Ahem…”
Nash covered his mouth with his palm and coughed. “I currently have no means of helping you. You’ll
just have to hang in there!”
Old Herera untied the rope around his waist and put Zain’s corpse behind him before he said, ” We
need to find Madam Lunaris… She’ll know what to do!”
“Why can that dismembered hand still move?”
Melody gave the three men a confused look, seemingly hoping they could answer her question.
However, the three men shook their heads in sync.
Bradley smiled a half-smile. “We’ve never seen anything like this…”
Melody turned to Nash. “You’re a Golden Amulet Master
don’t you?”
You know why this is happening,
Nash pursed his lips. “Golden Amulet Masters aren’t all-powerful. This is my first time witnessing
something so ridiculous!”
He had dismembered a zombie’s hand from its body in the past.
However, the dismembered hand usually lost any ability to move once it was separated from the body.
What they had just witnessed was a new sight to him as well.
“Do you think it’s possible that… the Undead Corpse King’s hand has gained a life of its own?” Heidi
asked boldly.
“That’s ridiculous!” Derek’s face turned even paler.
“I think it’s possible!”
Nash said solemnly, “The cosmos diagram we saw was actually a necromancy formation… The eight
caskets in the walls are merely there to provide the Undead Corpse King sustenance… Someone is
trying to create an even more powerful shadow corpse…
“Shadow corpses survive on grieving souls and dead spirits. The Undead Corpse King must have
brought harm to countless people in the past 1,000 years….
Just then, Finn and Ken returned with two skinned coyotes.
Finn grinned. “We got lucky… We were just about to begin hunting when our prey appeared before us!”
They were supposed to be the coyotes’ prey, but they were so powerful they sessfully overpowered
the coyotes.
It had not taken them much effort to kill the two coyotes.
The two retrieved some sticks and built a spit they could use to grill the coyotes.
Melody propped her chin up with one hand and turned to Nash. “What next?”
Everyone else also paid attention to Nash’s exnation.
Nash smiled before he
nued, “The Undead Corpse King is a shadow corpse, and shadow corpses usually fall into a deep
sleep after feasting on grieving souls and dead spirits because it’s quite difficult to fully digest vengeful
spirits…
“They ced zombies inside those eight caskets so that the Undead Corpse King would have ess
to grieving souls that would make him even more powerful, and then they attached themselves to the
Undead Corpse King’s body…
“This way, the Undead Corpse King’s hand would be able to move on its own free will and be a
living being….”
Horrified expressions appeared on everyone’s faces after hearing Nash’s exnation.
Derek, who was lying atop a pile of hay, asked, “In that case, why didn’t the Undead Corpse King’s
hand wrestle itself free from control earlier? Wouldn’t it have wanted to seek for the Undead Corpse
King?”