195: Chapter 195: I don't understand this BOSS either!

[-132!]

The number wasn't large, but the insult was immense.

The kings royal guard maintained its mountain-splitting posture, a faint, imperceptible trace of confusion seemingly flickering within its crimson eye sockets.

The script wasn't supposed to go like this.

Just as the kings royal guard was caught between an attack recovery or a total glitch, Chen You moved.

Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique — Jinghong!

A sword light so fast it reached the extreme flashed and vanished in the dim hall, like a meteor suddenly appearing in the dark night.

“Psh-sh-sh-sh—!”

[-18977!]

[-18898!]

[-19115!]

...

In just a single second, a string of numbers floated up from the kings royal guard's head.

That massive body, seemingly composed of rock, shuddered violently.

Then it collapsed with a crash, turning into a shower of rubble.

The other kings royal guard finally seemed to snap out of its frozen state, letting out a dull roar as it raised its weapon to sweep across.

But Chen You's figure had already vanished from the spot.

He appeared at the side of the second guard, delivering another "Jinghong" with a backhand strike.

The same sword light, the same overwhelming force.

[-19152!]

[-18999!]

[-19099!]

...

In less than three seconds, the two gatekeepers who had caused the Moon Gods Radiance elite team to be wiped out in resentment were reduced to two piles of cold rubble.

The entire hall returned to a dead silence.

“Rumble—”

With the fall of the guards, the tightly closed giant door at the end of the hall began to slowly open, revealing an even deeper darkness behind it.

“Roar!”

The next second, piercing screeches came from behind the door.

A dozen or so "Kings Servants," slightly smaller in stature at about three meters tall, swarmed out of the darkness.

Their eyes were blood-red as they brandished sharp claws, lunging frantically at Chen You.

Looking at this menacing wave of mobs, Chen You didn't even move his feet an inch.

He simply gave his sword a light flourish.

Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique — Chaotic Stars!

In an instant, the jade brilliance in his hand seemed to transform into a brilliant star, bursting forth with thousands of fine sword beams.

“Psh-psh-psh-psh-psh—”

The dense sound of blades entering flesh blended into one.

Those Kings Servants who had just rushed out of the gate couldn't even get within ten meters of Chen You before being riddled with holes by the star-rain-like sword beams.

Their health bars were instantly emptied, and they fell in unison before they could even let out a wail.

One move, room cleared.

Chen You looked around; seeing nothing to loot, he walked straight through the gate.

Behind the door was a giant corridor so long the end couldn't be seen, with hideous statues standing on both sides, creating a grim atmosphere.

In the corridor, several squads of Kings Servants were patrolling back and forth.

Chen You walked unhurriedly down the center of the corridor, as if taking a stroll in his own backyard.

When the first patrol squad spotted him and charged with a roar, he just gave a casual wave.

A "Jinghong" sword qi flew out, accurately piercing the heads of three servants.

He continued forward.

The second squad attempted to flank him.

Without even looking, he delivered another backhand sword strike.

Sword light flashed, and three heads soared into the air.

Throughout the entire process, his pace didn't falter for a single moment.

Killing all the way as he walked.

By the time he leisurely reached the end of the corridor, a trail of monster corpses lay behind him.

Passing through the corridor, the view suddenly opened up.

[You have entered the 【War Forecourt】!]

This was a massive, open area resembling a derelict royal garden.

A broken, blood-colored crescent moon hung in the sky, casting cold moonlight that coated the withered flora in an eerie silver frost.

A dried-up, straight riverbed cut through the garden like a giant scar, dividing it in two.

On the half of the garden where Chen You stood, three figures were quietly standing.

The one in the middle was unimaginably burly, perhaps twenty or thirty meters tall, with a bare upper body.

He was bound by thick black chains, kneeling on the ground with his head bowed, his face obscured.

Beside him stood two figures that were relatively "petite," only about five meters tall.

They held a long whip in one hand and a glowing red branding iron in the other, their faces wearing a twisted and fanatical expression.

One of the figures raised its whip high and lashed it fiercely against the giant's back.

“Crack!”

The sharp crack of the whip exploded in the deathly silent courtyard.

The giant's body shuddered, but he didn't make a sound.

“Crack! Crack!”

The other figure followed suit, pressing the branding iron down with a "sizzle" and a smell of charred flesh.

The two lackeys—one with the whip, one with the iron—moved with practiced skill and perfect coordination, as if performing some solemn and sacred ritual.

And the towering giant remained silent throughout, wordlessly enduring it all.

The scene was filled with an unspeakable eeriness and... unsightly nature.

Chen You stood there, his brow furrowed into a knot.

He remembered Arrow of the Moon's words: "The first BOSS... we couldn't even understand it."

At the time, he thought it was some complex mechanic involving the Five Elements or the Eight Trigrams.

Looking at it now...

This wasn't just hard to understand; it was hard to watch!

He associated it with some large-scale BDSM behavior.

Chen You even suspected if he had wandered into the wrong place and accidentally entered a pay-per-view channel.

“The Moon Gods Radiance people couldn't have been wiped out because their moral outlook was shattered, right?”

He silently complained in his heart.

Watching the two lackeys still tirelessly "committing violence," Chen You felt his eyes were being polluted.

He couldn't let them continue like this.

He took a deep breath, gathering his inner energy.

“Ahem!”

A clear cough, like a sudden clap of thunder, instantly broke the eerie rhythm in the courtyard.

The two figures performing the execution paused and slowly turned around.

Their faces were similar to ordinary humans, but their skin was an eerie greenish-gray.

There were no pupils in their eyes, only two clusters of burning crimson fire.

Chen You took a step forward, his face written with righteous indignation.

He shouted in a deep voice, “In broad daylight and under the clear sky! Where is your sense of propriety?!”

The two figures seemed to daze for a moment, the crimson flames flickering; they clearly hadn't expected someone to open with such a line.

Chen You continued his righteous scolding.

“Do you... have no respect for the law? Even if there's some deep-seated hatred, you can't use this kind of...”

“This kind of uncivilized method! Stop right now!”

The righteous scolding echoed through the empty, silent courtyard.

The two greenish-gray figures responsible for the execution froze completely, a metaphorical question mark seemingly flashing in their burning crimson eye sockets.

They couldn't understand the meaning of these words; the low-level logic modules of the system were rapidly spinning, trying to match a corresponding aggro mechanic.

[dungeon Boss 【Warlord Augus】 has been activated.]

The cold system notification sounded in Chen You's ear.

Before the voice faded, the body of the giant bound by chains in the center of the courtyard shuddered violently.

“Roar—!”

A roar of fury suppressed for thousands of years soared into the sky, as if it wanted to tear apart the blood-colored firmament.

The thick black chains binding him actually emitted a "crackling" sound at this moment.

They weren't breaking, but rather, like living things, they were slowly sinking into his flesh.

With every inch they merged, the giant's body expanded further, and his previously bowed head slowly lifted.