Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 417 - 33: Artifact of the Dead King

"Alert! Alert!"

"Detected unknown spatial anomaly in the current area!... Detected unknown Death Domain!..."

"Detected Abyssal pollution source!..."

The alarm prompts from the Space-Time Monitor System kept flashing, and Su Ziyu's expression became quite grave in an instant.

What a blunder!

What is happening now?

Su Ziyu decisively activated the Spiritual Protection Field, simultaneously triggering the Mind Barrier, standing back to back with Nun Fried as they faced the black, misty substance expanding before them. It seemed to engulf the entire hall, and the surrounding space appeared to undergo some kind of unknown eerie change, exhibiting a degree of space distortion as if it were connected to another special half-plane.

Su Ziyu had already been very cautious.

But he just couldn't resist when he saw an Artifact of the Dead King. If it were an ordinary peculiar object, he might have held back, but something at the Divine Artifact Level, even if marked as a fake, was irresistible.

Moreover, there were no enemies in the hall.

Fortunately, he had left a Space Beacon earlier, and now he only hoped not to trigger something too troublesome.

"It seemed like that was the initial dead one, the Artifact left behind by Tomb King Nite,"

Nun Fried's expression was extremely solemn, but she didn't blame Su Ziyu, as she actually wanted to touch it too. She softly said, "The ruler of Karthus, according to legend."

"Overlord Vonier obtained an Artifact from the initial dead Tomb King Nite."

"Be careful."

"It seems like we've been teleported into an alternate dimension."

In this world,

The so-called Artifacts are, to some extent, a low-tier form of Divine Artifacts because they are special tools forged with the royal souls obtained from the First Flame, used by the initial kings.

The initial dead Tomb King Nite was a figure from the same era as the Sun King, Gwyn. It is said that he obtained one of the royal souls from the First Flame and created the concept of 'death' in this world. Before this, there was no death in this world; whether ancient arch trees or Immortal Ancient Dragons, they were all eternal beings.

In the Immortal Ancient Dragon War, Tomb King Nite unleashed a Death Miasma, eroding the dragon scales of the Immortal Ancient Dragons, indirectly leading to their extinction.

By the way,

This initial dead one was also the most likely existence to become a 'Death God', who was later burnt as kindling in the First Flame.

The eerie black substance enveloped everything around.

In Su Ziyu's sight was an endless darkness. At this moment, he and Nun Fried were no longer in the initial hall but rather teleported to a completely unknown special space. It was filled with dense death power and some darker, more malevolent insane forces. The aura of the Abyss was so overwhelming that both of their spirits felt slightly uncomfortable.

"It's the Death Domain."

Su Ziyu felt some reaction from the Death Divinity Value he once obtained, as if something was attracting him.

Boom!

Within the infinite darkness, something seemed to appear: a colossal shadow suddenly crawled out from the dark abyss.

"Watch out!"

Without hesitation, Su Ziyu reached out and embraced Nun Fried, and their figures retreated swiftly. As he lifted his hand, a bolt of Spiritual Lightning shot out instantly.

The darkness receded.

Accompanied by faint dim lights, a massive corpse appeared in Su Ziyu's vision. Just its head was three to four meters wide, and its neck was a mass of skulls, thousands of them coiling like a necklace around its neck. The gaping, gigantic skeleton's sides had a pair of gray-white, broken bony arms, spanning over thirty meters, scattering a profusion of mysterious dark matter as they swept across.

"Alert! Alert!"

"Corroded by unknown dark substance!... Life Force draining!... Humanity dwindling!... Signs of Zombification appearing!..."

"Death Spiritual Qi activating automatically!..."

"Beginning to assimilate Death Curse!..."

Su Ziyu no longer had the energy to pay attention to the Space-Time Monitor System's prompts. He abruptly pushed Nun Fried away, and with a sudden flash, he teleported fifteen meters away.

A spray of black death material fell, stripping away all life nearby.

——"Overlord Vonier! [Abyssal Erosion] [Death Plunder]"

Perched atop this gigantic skeleton was a dazzling and magnificent crown. There was not a speck of flesh on its body, only patches of gray-white, aged bones. It's unclear how long it had been sealed there, immersed in a potent aura of extreme decay.

Its upper half propped and crawled on the ground, while the lower half was swallowed by the boundless darkness behind it.

The darkness seemed to be tearing at its body, yet this tremendous corpse still stubbornly crawled out. Blood-red light loomed in its empty eye sockets, fixating on Su Ziyu with an insatiably greedy expression.

"Death!..."

"Give me... your death..."

The subconscious mumbles echoed directly in Su Ziyu's mind, followed by a massive bone arm reaching out from the darkness. A substance resembling a poisonous miasma spread rapidly, accompanied by an influx of unidentified dark matter.

"It's the wraith of Overlord Vonier!"

On Nun Fried's body, traces of remnant fire appeared. Black flames surged with ice as she swung a gigantic scythe directly toward the enemy's head.

Clang.

Sparks flashed.

Her attack seemed completely ineffective, as the enemy didn't even flinch.

Bang, bang, bang.

Some pale bones fell from the enemy's chest cavity, quickly transforming into squads of skeletal skeletons, their eyes alight with blood-red radiance, charging with raised blades toward the two of them.

"He has an Artifact protecting him!..."

"We must destroy the Artifacts on him first!..."

Su Ziyu, somewhat in a scramble, dodged the giant hands constantly grabbing at him and the madly spreading dark matter, loudly shouting toward Nun Fried in the distance: "Bracelet!..."

"Do you see those bracelets on his arm?"

——"Unknown Artifact: ???"

On Overlord Vonier's massive skeleton were three exceptionally prominent golden bracelets, emitting faint golden gleams. When Su Ziyu's gaze landed, the prompt for 'Unknown Artifact' appeared instantly.

This monster seemed insane, fixated on attacking Su Ziyu relentlessly.

After Su Ziyu managed to pull away slightly, it abruptly opened its hollow mouth, spewing a dense cloud of black poisonous miasma that completely engulfed the area within a hundred meters, leaving Su Ziyu no room to dodge. In Overlord Vonier's eyes, it seemed as if only Su Ziyu existed; it completely ignored the nearby Nun Fried, possessed only by a mad desire to seize and devour Su Ziyu whole.

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