48: Chapter 48 Devouring the Legendary Bone Dragon and the Modification of Living Weapons

On the horizon, that black dot finally materialized into a menacing entity.

The Phantom Bone Dragon's massive form blotted out the sky, casting an enormous shadow. Every beat of its tattered yet still powerful bone wings stirred a gale laced with the aura of death, sending the low-ranking Zerg Swarm on the ground tumbling.

And standing proudly upon the Bone Dragon's back was the figure of the God of Shadows. He spread his arms wide as if to embrace this divine realm that was soon to be his, his face a mask of undisguised madness and delight.

"Su Chen! Get out here and die!!"

His god-infused voice transformed into a tangible sonic wave, like rolling thunder descending from the heavens, exploding violently over the entire divine realm, causing ripples to shimmer through space itself.

He looked down upon the scene below.

Those insects he had once loathed to the bone were now scattering like a receding tide, swarming towards those ugly bunkers.

In his eyes, this was fear, the wailing of the weak.

"Run?"

The God of Shadows let out a contemptuous snort of laughter.

"Do you think you can outrun a dragon's wings?"

The delight in his heart fermented and swelled at this moment, reaching an unprecedented peak.

The flames of vengeance seared his divine soul, almost making him moan aloud. He could already clearly "see" the scene—Su Chen kneeling at his feet, tears and snot streaming down his face, begging for mercy like a dog.

And he, he would plant his foot on Su Chen's head and bestow endless torment and suffering upon this mortal who had stolen everything from him!

"Bone Dragon!"

He pointed with triumphant vigor at the purple creep-covered land below, issuing the command for destruction.

"Burn them to cinders!"

"Turn this filthy land into a dead zone!"

"ROAR—!!!"

The Phantom Bone Dragon let loose a sky-shattering roar in response to its master's command.

It opened its maw, large enough to swallow an entire skyscraper with ease.

A deathly pale gray-white light gathered and compressed with frantic intensity in the depths of its throat. The surrounding light seemed to be devoured by that single point of radiance, the life energy in the air rapidly drained, even the wind ceasing to blow.

The Legendary Rank undead dragon breath—"Soul Wither"!

This single attack was enough to turn a ten-mile radius into a lifeless land of the dead, where the souls of all living beings would be utterly annihilated and withered under this power!

The smile on the God of Shadows' face had twisted to its extreme.

He waited, waited for that gray-white deluge representing death to completely purify everything below.

However, just as the dragon breath was about to erupt, the energy having built to its critical point...

Below, that tiny figure that had been standing silently beside the terrifying maw slowly raised his right hand.

A crisp snap of his fingers.

*Snap*.

The sound wasn't loud, yet it eerily drowned out all the wind and roars between heaven and earth.

Followed by a light, almost casual phrase, as if calling a pet.

"Dinner time."

*Hum—!!!*

The world seemed to be muted at this moment.

The "Abyssal Dominion Maw" hidden within the Abyssal Toxic mother tree, having just revealed its true form, lunged forward!

It moved.

It wasn't a biological pounce, but a spatial-level translocation!

The originally few-dozen-meter-wide maw now completely defied all known laws of physics, swelling violently in the wind!

A hundred meters!

Five hundred meters!

A kilometer!

In merely a breath's time, it transformed into a purple-black hole over a kilometer in diameter, bottomless, completely enveloping the entire sky above the Phantom Bone Dragon!

A terrifying gravitational force erupted—irresistible, incomprehensible, inescapable!

This gravity didn't act on matter, but directly on concepts and rules!

[Talent Activated: Forced Devour!]

"What in the world is that?!"

The ecstasy and ferocity on the God of Shadows' face instantly froze and shattered.

An icy chill originating from the depths of his divine soul caused even his demigod mind to stall for an instant.

To his horror, he discovered that the once-arrogant Phantom Bone Dragon beneath him was now emitting a cry of utter terror. The "Soul Wither" dragon breath, which had been on the verge of erupting with enough power to destroy heaven and earth, was forcibly suppressed by that terrifying suction, choked back into its throat, producing a pitiful "whimper"!

"ROAR—!!"

The Bone Dragon's massive body struggled violently in the air, its bone wings flapping with unprecedented frenzy, trying to break free from the terrifying force that had locked onto it, to escape that purple-black hole radiating endless appetite.

However, under the rule-level suppression of "Forced Contract," all its resistance seemed so feeble.

It was no longer a Legendary Rank dragon soaring the skies, but a mere iron filing firmly held by a magnet.

Its struggles only hastened the process of being dragged in.

"No! Stop! Stop it now!"

The God of Shadows finally snapped out of his shock, letting out a hysterical scream.

"I am your master! I command you to stop!"

He frantically activated the soul contract binding him to the Bone Dragon, trying to regain control. He burned divine power as if it were limitless, forming a faint gray halo around him in an attempt to resist the intangible gravitational pull.

Yet, it was all in vain.

Before the rule-level might of an eighth-tier biological structure, involving the very essence of "dominion" and "contract," the power of this Second-Turn Demigod was as insignificant as a firefly before the bright moon.

That power directly bypassed his control, acting upon the Bone Dragon's very "existence"!

*BOOM!!!*

Amidst a deafening, earth-shaking, and utterly muffled roar, that Legendary Rank Phantom Bone Dragon, along with the ashen-faced God of Shadows on its back, plunged headfirst into the abyssal maw!

*CRUNCH!*

The massive maw snapped shut.

Immediately after, a series of soul-shattering, bone-chilling sounds of bones cracking and chewing echoed between heaven and earth.

The sound was immense and clear, as if an invisible behemoth were using a millstone of billions of tons of stone to grind the hardest diamond in the world.

Each grinding motion was accompanied by crisp, incessant *crack-crack* sounds.

An eighth-tier Legendary creature, annihilated in one move!

Complete and utter silence fell over the scene.

The wind stopped, the clouds dispersed, even the fleeing of the Zerg Swarm ceased.

The Gray Dwarves who had just peeked out from the bunker entrances stared dumbfounded at the sky, at that purple maw still faintly writhing and emitting terrifying chewing sounds, scared to the point of forgetting to breathe entirely.

Their minds went blank, completely unable to process this unimaginable sight before them.

However, Su Chen did not allow the maw to actually digest this Bone Dragon.

It was a living eighth-tier combat asset; simply eating it would be far too wasteful.

His cold intent directly transmitted into the control core within the maw.

"System! Activate internal genetic enzymes!"

"Initiate forced brainwashing! Inject Zerg loyalty genes!"

The command was issued.

Inside the Abyssal Maw, within the independent space composed of high-concentration psionic energy liquid, a drastic change occurred instantly.

Countless fleshy tentacles tipped with barbs shot out from the surrounding meat walls from all directions. Like sharks smelling blood, they accurately and deeply pierced into every inch of the Phantom Bone Dragon's massive skeletal frame, especially the violently burning, desperately struggling soul-fire within its skull!

"Roar... no... I am... the great... Undead Monarch..."

The Bone Dragon's residual consciousness fought back madly. Its proud soul could not accept the fate of being devoured and modified by a "beast."

But under the rule of "Abyssal Dominion," before the might of "Forced Contract," its resistance seemed so feeble.

Those fleshy tentacles were forcibly rewriting the underlying logic of its soul, roughly erasing the mark of the God of Shadows, and then carving the absolutely unbetrayable mark of loyalty belonging to the Swarm Overlord.

Minutes passed, feeling as long as centuries.

*Squelch—!*

When the maw opened again, a massive figure was spat out, crashing heavily onto the ground.

But it had changed dramatically.

Its originally pale, snow-white bones were now covered in layers of menacingly beautiful purple chitinous bio-armor, forming sharp bone spurs at the joints.

In its eye sockets, the once-burning, death-and-resentment-filledDark blue soul-fire had been completely extinguished. In its place was a cold, pureDark green light representing the will of the Zerg!

It climbed up from the ground, sensing that supreme will suspended in mid-air.

It slowly lowered its once supremely arrogant head towards Su Chen's direction and emitted a hiss from the depths of its soul, signifying absolute submission.

[New Unit]: Bio-Bone Dragon (Zerg-ified / Eighth-tier)

[Status]: Absolute Loyalty

Su Chen's figure slowly descended, hovering before the enormous head of this completely renewed Bio-Bone Dragon.

His gaze passed over the menacing bones, landing on the God of Shadows who had long been scared limp as a ragdoll, curled up on the Bone Dragon's back, his divine spark even dimmed by extreme terror.

Su Chen waved at him, revealing an exceedingly kind, even somewhat warm smile.

"Thanks, bro, for the delivery of the big airplane."